Job Description
Job Summary:
The Supply Chain Engineer will develop innovative solutions to solve supply chain problems. These initiatives will drive growth, lower cost, improve service and enhance operational effectiveness. . The successful candidate will possess excellent technical and leadership skills combined with demonstrated interpersonal and teamwork skills.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Collects data and performs statistical analysis
- Maps and documents processes
- Recommends and implements process improvement
- Applies company methodologies and tools to design distribution/ transportation operations including staffing, equipment, sizing and layout
- May assist with inventory analysis
- Establishes performance measures
- Assists in communications with internal and external customers to understand business requirements
- Supports business development and helps create efficient designs and solutions processes
- Determines efficient utilization of resources by analyzing layouts, labor force, equipment, driver and equipment utilization charts
- Assists the Engineering and Operations Managers to implement efficient and competitive solutions
- Applies various Lean Six Sigma (LSS) tools
Requirements:
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or other quantitative field of study
- Master degree preferred
- Minimum 2-5 years of experience in any of the following areas; transportation management, dedicated fleet operations, distribution center management, materials handling, decision support systems and technology.
- Demonstrated data manipulation skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at one time.
- Excellent communications skills.
- Experience preparing and presenting oral and written presentations to management and clients
- Basic knowledge of supply chain technology
- Well organized with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Demonstrated ability to learn technical skills quickly
- Understanding of optimization and/or simulation algorithms
- Database skills, especially through SQL or Access
- Strong computer proficiency in MS Office applications
- MS Project
- AutoCAD and Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Inventory Analysis tools
- Experience with routing and scheduling packages and transportation optimization software
- Process Mapping
- Statistical and/or Transportation Analysis Tools
- Mapping analysis tools and/or Simulation, preferred
- Visual Basic Admin. (VBA) / Sequential Query Language (SQL)