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