Position Summary:
Advises, plans, develops, and designs District engineering/operational plans to optimize efficiencies in business objectives. Leverages operational knowledge of various facilities, their specific engineering processes, and working knowledge of operational systems. Collaborates with Managers to monitor adherence to plans, determine root cause of deficiencies, develop and assist management in implementation of action and support compliance and training efforts that they identify in the District.
Key Responsibilities:
- Evaluates Hub/Linehaul cut times to determine if they are meeting requirements
- Advises and facilitates team knowledge and optimal application of dock operational systems (such as Vision, Sortation Systems – ISS & ISSC) and identifies and solves for corrective actions
- Produces monthly operational plans to determine required resources needed with special focus on Peak planning
- Provides material handling project recommendations, including financial analysis, to justify facility expansions
- Responsible for goal/budget setting (productivity, service and cost) to turn cost inefficiencies into cost savings
- Identifies facility inefficiencies through root cause analysis by conducting facility visit observations and leveraging operational knowledge for solutions to deliver on-site assistance for improvements
- Creates Network Alignment Plans
- Oversees District Changes (spin offs, expansions, relocations)
- Determines Capacity Planning to ensure full use of facilities
- Prepares Volume Projections for short term/future/long range
- Forecasts labor and project manning needs for current/future
- Acts as a change agent throughout the District in order to influence and steer management decisions to ensure alignment and optimization of engineering and operational plans
- Develops Labor Standards to minimize labor hours as needed
What you’ll have:
- Ability to inspire a shared vision and empower and motivate a team.
- Knowledge of concepts related to Material Handling, Computer Aided Design, and Business Object preferred.
- Ability to anticipate and identify problems and use sound judgment and fact-based analysis to develop effective and efficient solutions.
- 1 year Area/Sort/P&D Manager experience required
- Ability to travel up to 75%.
- Ability to perform cost justification analysis.
- An equivalency of four (4) additional years’ experience in the areas below + minimum required experience with a high school diploma/GED or unrelated Bachelor’s degree. Experience in the following areas include: o The transportation industry in a a relevant operations management role
- Bachelor’s degree in Transportation, Logistics, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math required.
- No Industrial Engineering Experience with relevant degree required