Supply Chain Engineer
Responsibilities
- Perform activities to ensure material is shipped, received, stored, or delivered quickly and efficiently.
- Provide logistics management, analysis, and support of inbound and outbound material flow.
- Lead aggressive continuous improvement efforts to eliminate excess inventory and manage material to PFEP-defined flow paths.
- Develop, maintain, and support transportation requirements, including determining appropriate mode and carrier.
- Monitor carrier performance, determine root cause, and take corrective action.
- Decrease transportation costs and reduce premium freight expense.
- Improve carrier quality and container scheduling and availability.
- Manage and support business unit or facility logistics activities.
- Provide overall management of the facility freight expenses, including filing carrier loss and damaged freight claims.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or other closely related disciplines.
- 5-7 years of experience required.
- Project management experience.
- MAMM MRP experience.
- Understanding and previous experience using common supply chain systems (e.g., MAMM MRP, Lognet, MRC, EDI, MESL, FRACS, and Pull Manager).
- 6-Sigma training and experience.
- Extensive knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics.
- Knowledge of established standard operating procedures (SOP) and ability to design, implement, and evaluate SOPs.
- Working knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers.
Skills
- Project management skills with the ability to provide clear escalation and decision framing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate across all management levels.
- Working knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for improvement.
- Ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate and coordinate work across divisions.
- Working knowledge of functions, principles, and techniques used in supply chain management.
- Masters degree related to supply chain is a plus.
- Ability to thrive in an uncertain, high-pressure environment and work independently.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Advanced ability to effectively use Microsoft Office tools such as Excel & PowerPoint.
Pay, Benefits, and Schedule
The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $43.00 - $44.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.