Overview:
The Supply Chain Engineering Manager Automation will manage the development of innovative solutions to solve supply chain problems. Responsible for managing other engineers. Provides regular and proactive communications to customers and NFI management. The successful candidate will possess excellent technical skills and leadership experience combined with demonstrated interpersonal and teamwork skills
Responsibilities:
- Independently identifies process gaps and recommends and implements process improvement
- Applies supply chain methodologies and tools to design distribution and/or transportation operations
- Establishes and implements performance measures
- Actively supports the sales process and creates high quality solutions and designs
- Provides proposal and presentation support and development
- Makes Inventory and/or Supply Chain strategy recommendations
- Effectively interacts with customers, Sales, and Operations to create value propositions
- Confers with Engineering and Operations Managers to implement efficient and competitive solutions
- Manages multiple and complex Supply Chain projects
- Provides resource planning based on priorities and demand signals
- Supervises a team of engineers (hire, promote, coach, development and performance management)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Industrial
- Engineering, Operations Research, Economics, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or other quantitative field of study
- Minimum 8-10 years of experience in any of the following areas; transportation management, dedicated fleet operations, distribution center management, materials handling, decision support systems and technology
- Master Degree preferred
- Strong knowledge of transportation operations
- Strong knowledge of warehousing operations
- Data management and manipulation skills
- Programming skills to manipulate large data-sets
- Experience with routing and scheduling packages and transportation optimization software
- AutoCAD and Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Inventory Analysis tools
- Strong financial conceptual skills
- Strong computer proficiency in MS Office applications
- Demonstrated data manipulation skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at one time.
- Excellent communications skills.
- Experience preparing and presenting oral and written presentations to management and clients
- Experience with supply chain technology
- Well organized with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Demonstrated ability to learn technical skills quickly
- Understanding of optimization and/or simulation algorithms
- Database skills, especially through SQL or Access
- Knowledge in: VBA, Python, R, Matlab, Java, C++, or C# is a major plus
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
LA County Applicants: The Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
