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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
- Procurement Engineer
- Logistics System Engineer
- Logistics Research Engineer
- Logistics Planning Engineer
- Logistics Engineering Manager
- Logistics Engineer
- Integrated Logistics Operations Manager
- Cost Reduction Engineer
- Cost Estimating Engineer
- Cost Engineer
- Continuous Improvement Specialist
Tasks for “Logistics Engineer”
- Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, or material-handling systems.
- Determine requirements for compliance with environmental certification standards.
- 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.
- Review global, national, or regional transportation or logistics reports for ways to improve efficiency or minimize the environmental impact of logistics activities.
- 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.
- 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 document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output resulting from the movement of materials or products.
- Propose logistics solutions for customers.
- Evaluate effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
- Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
- Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
- Evaluate the use of inventory tracking technology, Web-based warehousing software, or intelligent conveyor systems to maximize plant or distribution center efficiency.
- Determine logistics support requirements, such as facility details, staffing needs, or safety or maintenance plans.
- Assess the environmental impact or energy efficiency of logistics activities, using carbon mitigation software.
- Review contractual commitments, customer specifications, or related information to determine logistics or support requirements.
- Design plant distribution centers.
- Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
- Conduct environmental audits for logistics activities, such as storage, distribution, or transportation.
- Develop or maintain cost estimates, forecasts, or cost models.
- Direct the work of logistics analysts.
- 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.
- Provide logistics technology or information for effective and efficient support of product, equipment, or system manufacturing or service.
- Provide logistical facility or capacity planning analyses for distribution or transportation functions.
- Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
- 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.
- Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
- Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Multi-line telephone systems
- Laser facsimile machines
- Multimedia projection equipment
- Computer laser printers
- Laptop computers
- Desktop computers
- Personal computers
- ReliaSoft XFMEA
- Failure modes and effects analysis FMEA software
- ITEM Software ITEM ToolKit
- Microsoft Office
- Logistics Support Analysts SmartLogic
- JMS Software RCM WorkSaver
- i2 Transportation Modeler
- Microsoft Access
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- LOGSA COMPASS
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Excel
- SAP
- JDA Manugistics
- IBM Notes
- Logistics management information LMI database software
- Microsoft Visio
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Oracle Hyperion
- Microsoft Word
- Prolog
- Reliability centered maintenance RCM software
- ITEM Software Spare Cost
- Minitab
- Oracle Java
- Logistics Cost Estimating Tool
- Reliass EAGLE
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- LOGSA SYSPARS
- Microsoft SharePoint
- ReliaSoft RCM++
- Warehouse management system WMS
- IBM Cognos Impromptu
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
- IBM ILOG CPLEX/Dispatcher
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Relex FMEA
- C++
- SAP Business Objects