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