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