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