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