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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
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Logistics Engineers”.
Also Known As…
- Logistics Engineers
- 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
Tasks for “Continuous Improvement Specialist”
- Apply logistics modeling techniques to address issues such as operational process improvement or facility design or layout.
- Design comprehensive supply chains that minimize environmental impacts or costs.
- Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, or material-handling systems.
- Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
- Determine logistics support requirements, such as facility details, staffing needs, or safety or maintenance plans.
- Assess the environmental impact or energy efficiency of logistics activities, using carbon mitigation software.
- Prepare or validate documentation on automated logistics or maintenance-data reporting or management information systems.
- Conduct environmental audits for logistics activities, such as storage, distribution, or transportation.
- Review contractual commitments, customer specifications, or related information to determine logistics or support requirements.
- Develop or document reverse logistics management processes to ensure maximal efficiency of product recycling, reuse, or final disposal.
- Direct the work of logistics analysts.
- Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
- Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
- Evaluate effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
- Design plant distribution centers.
- Develop or maintain cost estimates, forecasts, or cost models.
- Determine requirements for compliance with environmental certification standards.
- Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
- Review global, national, or regional transportation or logistics reports for ways to improve efficiency or minimize the environmental impact of logistics activities.
- Propose logistics solutions for customers.
- Create models or scenarios to predict the impact of changing circumstances, such as fuel costs, road pricing, energy taxes, or carbon emissions legislation.
- Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
- Provide logistics technology or information for effective and efficient support of product, equipment, or system manufacturing or service.
- Evaluate the use of inventory tracking technology, Web-based warehousing software, or intelligent conveyor systems to maximize plant or distribution center efficiency.
- Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
- Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
- 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.
- Develop or document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output resulting from the movement of materials or products.
- Determine feasibility of designing new facilities or modifying existing facilities, based on factors such as cost, available space, schedule, technical requirements, or ergonomics.
- Provide logistical facility or capacity planning analyses for distribution or transportation functions.
Related Technology & Tools
- Laser facsimile machines
- Computer laser printers
- Personal computers
- Multimedia projection equipment
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Desktop computers
- Digital cameras
- Laptop computers
- Multimedia projectors
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Office
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- IBM Cognos Impromptu
- Reliability centered maintenance RCM software
- Microsoft SharePoint
- ITEM Software ITEM ToolKit
- Reliass EAGLE
- Logistics Support Analysts SmartLogic
- JDA Manugistics
- JMS Software RCM WorkSaver
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Prolog
- Relex FMEA
- Minitab
- Failure modes and effects analysis FMEA software
- SAP
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Excel
- Logistics Cost Estimating Tool
- i2 Transportation Modeler
- IBM ILOG CPLEX/Dispatcher
- Warehouse management system WMS
- ReliaSoft XFMEA
- SAP Business Objects
- ReliaSoft RCM++
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Oracle Java
- LOGSA SYSPARS
- LOGSA COMPASS
- Logistics management information LMI database software
- Microsoft Word
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- ITEM Software Spare Cost
- Microsoft Visio
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
- IBM Notes
- C++
- Oracle Hyperion