Warehousing Lead Solutions Design Engineer (remote)

Responsibilities

Lead Solutions Design Engineers support the growth of our Supply Chain Solutions & Dedicated Transportation Solution offerings by:

• Designing solutions that deliver financial value to our Customers
• Demonstrating an understanding of our Customer's business
• Providing feasible designs that are aligned with our Customer's needs
• Helping the pursuit team with shaping wins plans consistent with our solution design
• Helping to sustain designs that are aligned with Ryder's operational & technical capabilities
• Writing and delivering a compelling proposal that influences the customer decision to select Ryder
• Supporting awarded business throughout the startup process, successfully transitioning design and proposal assumptions to Operations and SCE CI resources through the Customer Due Diligence process

Requirements

The Lead Solutions Design Engineer is a key team member within a pursuit team that works on new business opportunities. They support a pursuit from start to finish and are an active team member throughout the various stages of the pursuit all the way through successful transition during startup.

• Specialize across multiple design disciplines
• Use advanced analytical techniques and concepts to understand the business
• Manage or mentor a small team of other SD Engineers
• Execute design processes to create, re-design, or optimize logistics networks
• Think and act independently and creatively
• Effectively communicate the design and solution to internal stakeholders & the client

Key Activities

• Data validation, cleansing, profiling, baseline development & defining scenarios to model
• Calculating labor, equipment, facility and expense requirements based on transportation and warehousing design assumptions
• Developing process flows, concept of operations and value propositions consistent with the win strategy and working with IT to develop concept of systems
• Coordinating with Pricing and other functions to develop cost and pricing models as well as relevant assumptions
• Making optimizations scenarios and strategies that are aligned with objectives
• Meeting frequently with customers and cross-functional bid response team
• Supporting technical review presentations and design validation meetings
• Implementing follow-up, requiring engineers to validate and modify deployed process to ensure it matches the plan
• Leading consulting projects that involve understanding customers' pain points, developing and presenting solutions

Skills and Abilities

• Superb data organization and cleansing skills
• Advanced skills and concepts using design applications, tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze and design complex transportation and warehousing networks
• Familiarity in simulation tools, transportation & warehouse management systems, ERPs, Automation, MHE, Visibility Tools, and industry leading technologies (preferred)
• Ability to influence the project teams by using facts, statistics, and analytics
• Comprehend complex supply chain and transportation solutions and segment design processes into manageable elements and process steps
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex designs, concepts, and regulations into terms readily understood
• Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization (peers, work groups, customers, supervisors)
• Microsoft Office Suite skills with emphasis on Access, Excel and PowerPoint expert required
• Knowledgeable of visualization (Tableau, Microsoft) and database programming intermediate preferred
• Knowledge of effective metrics programs and design networks that are sustainable and measurable advanced required
• Extensive knowledge of Dedicated Services and Managed Transportation Networks
• Required knowledge of all available equipment types such as; dry van, temperature control, flat bed, other specialized equipment
• Extensive knowledge of Warehouse Management operations, data analytics, Industrial Engineering, warehouse types (ambient, temp control, warehouse layout/ design and Lean methods)
• Required knowledge of material handling solutions and automation types such as: powered industrial truck (PIT) applications; racking and other storage solution designs, packaging equipment; conveyor and sortation equipment; and other automation solutions (e.g. AS/RS)
• Extensive knowledge of Transportation Design Tools ie; JDA, Appian, Network Design Tools ie; Llamasoft, Transportation Management Systems ie; JDA, OTM, , Mapping Software ie; Tableau expert required
• Extensive knowledge of Warehouse Design Tools e.g.: CAD (e.g. AutoCAD); slotting (e.g. Slot3D); Predetermined Motion and Time Systems and methods (e.g. MOST); simulation software and application; Warehouse Management Systems (e.g. Manhattan Scale); and Labor Mgt. Systems
• Network Design Tools (e.g., Llamasoft) and Data Analytics Software (e.g., Tableau) a plus expert required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management or Industrial Engineering
• Six (6) years or more in the Transportation industry (e.g., Truckload, Multi-stop TL, LTL, Intermodal, Bulk, Rail, or Parcel services)
• Six (6) years or more in the Warehousing and/or Manufacturing industry (e.g., Industrial Engineering, Warehouse Operations, Operations)
• Microsoft Office Suite skills with emphasis on Access, Excel and PowerPoint expert required
• Knowledgeable of visualization (Tableau, Microsoft) and database programming intermediate preferred
• Knowledge of effective metrics programs and design networks that are sustainable and measurable advanced required
• Extensive knowledge of Dedicated Services and Managed Transportation Networks
• Required knowledge of all available equipment types such as; dry van, temperature control, flat bed, other specialized equipment
• Extensive knowledge of Transportation Design Tools ie; JDA, Appian, Network Design Tools ie; Llamasoft, Transportation Management Systems ie; JDA, OTM, , Mapping Software ie; Tableau expert required
• Extensive knowledge of Warehouse Design Tools e.g.: CAD (e.g. AutoCAD); slotting (e.g. Slot3D); Predetermined Motion and Time Systems and methods (e.g. MOST); simulation software and application; Warehouse Management Systems (e.g. Manhattan Scale); and Labor Mgt. Systems
• Network Design Tools (e.g., Llamasoft) and Data Analytics Software (e.g., Tableau) a plus expert required