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