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Job Description
Design or analyze operational solutions for projects such as transportation optimization, network modeling, process and methods analysis, cost containment, capacity enhancement, routing and shipment optimization, or information management.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 13-1081.01
Also Known As…
- Systems Engineer
- Reliability Engineer
- Logistics Engineer
- Procurement Engineer
- Logistics System Engineer
- Logistics Research Engineer
- Logistics Planning Engineer
- Logistics Engineering Manager
- Integrated Logistics Operations Manager
- Cost Reduction Engineer
- Cost Estimating Engineer
- Cost Engineer
- Continuous Improvement Specialist
Tasks for “Logistics Engineers”
- Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
- Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, or material-handling systems.
- Determine feasibility of designing new facilities or modifying existing facilities, based on factors such as cost, available space, schedule, technical requirements, or ergonomics.
- Determine requirements for compliance with environmental certification standards.
- Provide logistics technology or information for effective and efficient support of product, equipment, or system manufacturing or service.
- Create models or scenarios to predict the impact of changing circumstances, such as fuel costs, road pricing, energy taxes, or carbon emissions legislation.
- Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
- Design comprehensive supply chains that minimize environmental impacts or costs.
- Review contractual commitments, customer specifications, or related information to determine logistics or support requirements.
- Review global, national, or regional transportation or logistics reports for ways to improve efficiency or minimize the environmental impact of logistics activities.
- Apply logistics modeling techniques to address issues such as operational process improvement or facility design or layout.
- Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
- Propose logistics solutions for customers.
- Develop or document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output resulting from the movement of materials or products.
- Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
- Direct the work of logistics analysts.
- Conduct environmental audits for logistics activities, such as storage, distribution, or transportation.
- Evaluate the use of inventory tracking technology, Web-based warehousing software, or intelligent conveyor systems to maximize plant or distribution center efficiency.
- Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
- Develop or document reverse logistics management processes to ensure maximal efficiency of product recycling, reuse, or final disposal.
- Develop or maintain cost estimates, forecasts, or cost models.
- Provide logistical facility or capacity planning analyses for distribution or transportation functions.
- Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
- Design plant distribution centers.
- Prepare or validate documentation on automated logistics or maintenance-data reporting or management information systems.
- Determine logistics support requirements, such as facility details, staffing needs, or safety or maintenance plans.
- Evaluate the use of technologies, such as global positioning systems (GPS), radio-frequency identification (RFID), route navigation software, or satellite linkup systems, to improve transportation efficiency.
- Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
- Assess the environmental impact or energy efficiency of logistics activities, using carbon mitigation software.
- Evaluate effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
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- Personal computers
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- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft SharePoint
- IBM Cognos Impromptu
- Microsoft Excel
- Minitab
- ITEM Software Spare Cost
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- ReliaSoft XFMEA
- Microsoft Project
- Failure modes and effects analysis FMEA software
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
- i2 Transportation Modeler
- LOGSA COMPASS
- Logistics management information LMI database software
- Reliability centered maintenance RCM software
- Logistics Cost Estimating Tool
- JMS Software RCM WorkSaver
- Reliass EAGLE
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft Access
- Prolog
- SAP Business Objects
- JDA Manugistics
- IBM ILOG CPLEX/Dispatcher
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- SAP
- Warehouse management system WMS
- LOGSA SYSPARS
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- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Relex FMEA
- IBM Notes
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- Microsoft Word
- C++
- Microsoft Office
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