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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
- Continuous Improvement Specialist
Tasks for “Systems Engineer”
- Propose logistics solutions for customers.
- Develop or document reverse logistics management processes to ensure maximal efficiency of product recycling, reuse, or final disposal.
- Design comprehensive supply chains that minimize environmental impacts or costs.
- Apply logistics modeling techniques to address issues such as operational process improvement or facility design or layout.
- Conduct environmental audits for logistics activities, such as storage, distribution, or transportation.
- 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.
- Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, or material-handling systems.
- Create models or scenarios to predict the impact of changing circumstances, such as fuel costs, road pricing, energy taxes, or carbon emissions legislation.
- Review global, national, or regional transportation or logistics reports for ways to improve efficiency or minimize the environmental impact of logistics activities.
- 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.
- Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
- Develop or document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output resulting from the movement of materials or products.
- Prepare or validate documentation on automated logistics or maintenance-data reporting or management information systems.
- Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
- Review contractual commitments, customer specifications, or related information to determine logistics or support requirements.
- Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
- Assess the environmental impact or energy efficiency of logistics activities, using carbon mitigation software.
- Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
- Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
- Determine feasibility of designing new facilities or modifying existing facilities, based on factors such as cost, available space, schedule, technical requirements, or ergonomics.
- Develop or maintain cost estimates, forecasts, or cost models.
- Determine logistics support requirements, such as facility details, staffing needs, or safety or maintenance plans.
- Evaluate effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
- Design plant distribution centers.
- Provide logistics technology or information for effective and efficient support of product, equipment, or system manufacturing or service.
- 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.
- Provide logistical facility or capacity planning analyses for distribution or transportation functions.
- Determine requirements for compliance with environmental certification standards.
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- SAP
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- IBM ILOG CPLEX/Dispatcher
- Microsoft Word
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- ReliaSoft XFMEA
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Visual Basic
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- Logistics management information LMI database software
- Oracle Java
- IBM Notes
- ITEM Software Spare Cost
- Prolog
- Relex FMEA
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- ReliaSoft RCM++
- Reliass EAGLE
- LOGSA COMPASS
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Visio
- Warehouse management system WMS
- Minitab
- IBM Cognos Impromptu
- SAP Business Objects
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Microsoft Access
- Failure modes and effects analysis FMEA software
- Oracle Hyperion
- C++
- ITEM Software ITEM ToolKit
- Microsoft Project
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