Hybrid Engineering Project Leader – Transportation, Warehouse

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About the role

  • Provide Engineering support in the Transportation and Warehouse space
  • Develop and lead capital projects at distribution centers and manufacturing plant warehouses
  • Develop and execute a warehouse Material Handling Equipment (MHE) strategy to maximize asset effectiveness while keeping capital spend and R&M costs within budget
  • Understand business drivers and be able understand the impact of capital investment on corporate strategies
  • Manually gather data from enterprise systems and distill data into insights
  • Based on insights, develop alternative solutions to eliminate process inefficiencies and execute capital projects for warehouse function
  • Work in collaboration with the manager to develop capital plans and manage the capital spend on assigned projects
  • Manage capital projects to meet budget, timeline and performance metrics
  • Oversee contractors to ensure projects are implemented safely
  • Develop relationships to guide accountability and value with strategic suppliers, on-site operations teams, and finance teams
  • Subject Matter Expert Material Handling Equipment
  • Develop and drive fleet strategies to optimize asset effectiveness and useful life while reducing maintenance costs
  • Manage fleet of roughly 2500 pieces of rolling stock across our network
  • Evaluate the latest fork truck, battery, and charging technologies and understand their application in our network
  • Evaluate emerging material handling technologies and how to use material handling automation to reduce reliance on manual labor such as: AGVs, AMRs, AS/RS, conveyor systems, etc.
  • Evaluate various material handling equipment - lease verses buy
  • Develop warehouse equipment specifications to support state-of-the-art warehousing concepts and procedures
  • Conduct fleet utilization studies and right-size fleets as necessary.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Supply Chain Management
  • Minimum 5 years previous IE or logistics/distribution engineering experience
  • Experience with warehouse equipment maintenance (MHE, dock equipment, etc.)
  • Experience with warehouse material handling processes and operating practices and budgets
  • Experience with project development in warehouse infrastructure or warehouse cost reduction
  • Financial acumen and experience developing project cost justifications
  • Experience making presentations and communicate findings to senior level management
  • Experience driving programs and influence without direct reporting relationships
  • Experience in inventory management, warehouse operations or other supply chain related function that interfaces engineering with distribution operations
  • Experience in Project Management of projects up to $2MM
  • Excel – Intermediate level / MS Project
  • Visio or other Flow-Charting Experience
  • Experience of distribution operations and overall supply chain management

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare plans
  • Wellness incentive program
  • Mental wellbeing support
  • Fitness reimbursement
  • Bonus incentive opportunity
  • Matching 401(k)
  • Stock purchase plan
  • Career development opportunities
  • Employee resource groups
  • On-demand learning
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Paid-time off
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible work-schedules
  • Volunteer opportunities

Job title

Engineering Project Leader – Transportation, Warehouse

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$81,000 - $118,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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