Engineering Lead at Transplace in Lowell, AR

Description

Primary Job Accountabilities

• Project Lead – Leading engineering network design projects, developing LLamasoft SCGX models work with support and related resources to achieve customer specified goals in the given timeframe
• Thought Leadership - Serve internal and external customers by providing insights in Supply Chain Optimization.
• Transportation Optimization – Support route optimization projects to both internal and external customers in order to reduce cost and improve service.
• Network Optimization Solutions - Provide innovative supply chain solutions to both internal and external customers through network design & optimization projects
• Mentorship – Mentor existing engineers in modeling skill sets, SCGx modeling
• Customer Relationships - Consistent and professional communications; effective, prompt and courteous communications with respect to difficult situations.

Essential Functions and Tasks

• Optimization Project Delivery
• Lead supply chain design and network optimization initiatives
• Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of customers supply chain opportunities Evaluate and design/model customer distribution network
• Use advanced modeling, LLamasoft’s SCGX to evaluate and optimize the customer's transportation and distribution network
• Develop models in LLamasoft for network and inventory projects with help from support team
• Serve as a LLamasoft SCG SME within Transplace
• Engineering lead
• Lead the process of gathering customer requirements
• Schedule strategy calls with stakeholders
• Assign responsibilities to SMEs
• Coordinate SME assignments with cross-functional teams, holding all participants accountable to project deliverables and deadlines.
• Communicate to stakeholders on progress
• Ensure solutions meet customer expectations in both timeliness and quality
• Lead scenario analysis workshop to analyze results and run number of what if scenarios before coming up with the final solution
• Share the results of the scenario with the customer for final validation and assignments.
• Support executive presentations with clients after completing the projects
• Thought Leadership
• Challenge and raise question in field of expertise and provide new thinking and processes
• Standardize current processes and lead continuous improvement projects
• Generalize and provide global inferences and actionable takeaways
• Author internal and external publications
• Represent company in conferences and symposiums
• Supervision
• Split project into actionable tasks
• Allocate to junior engineers according to the required skills
• Share methodology to get to the final solution
• Provide guidance at pre-determined intervals or as necessary
• Review final output with the engineers
• Mentorship
• Establish career goals of mentees
• Assist in identifying strengths and weaknesses
• Challenge mentees to grow professionally
• Help them build a network with peers and successful professionals
• Customer Relationships
• Communicate effective, prompt, detailed and courteous communications
• Act as an expert adviser to the customer to inform them of options and recommend the best practice for the customer's supply chain.

Knowledge and Expertise

• Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Ability to develop applications to retrieve and change data through SQL
• Basic knowledge of optimization software – Coupa (LLamasoft’s Supply chain guru X, Transportation Guru etc.)
• Basic Understanding of Supply Chain Management Principles & Strategies - Design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally
• Detailed understanding of the TMS and how it interacts with the Transplace optimization framework
• Statistical Analysis - Expertise in the collection, examination, summarization, manipulation, and interpretation of quantitative data to discover its underlying causes, patterns, relationships, and trends
• Transportation industry knowledge, including key terminology; and, general knowledge of primary customer industries
• Working Knowledge of relational database and SQL
• Working Knowledge of Tableau or other BI tools for reporting project output and summaries
• Detailed understanding of the different modes of transportation, sourcing strategies

Competencies

• Analytical Thinking - Conducts a thorough search for relevant information when approaching problems. Grasps pertinent issues in all their complexity. Carefully weighs the impact of a broad range of related issues or factors. Requests the opinions and insights of others during problem-solving efforts, when appropriate.
• Communication & Collaboration - Oral and written communication skills are consistent, professional, clear, concise, and achieve desired objectives. Listens and gets clarification. Provides and responds well to feedback, questions and viewpoints. Fosters alliances with others as valuable resources, treating them with respect and dignity. Forms cross-functional networks to share information and reach mutual goals.
• Customer Relationship Savvy - Understanding of the escalation process/channels/criteria and the limitations and scope of one's own role within the Customer Relationship.
• Internal Customer Focus - Develop relationships internal to Transplace and gain understanding of Transplace business model for the customer and operational intricacies that impact supply chain design.
• Intrinsic Motivation - Ability to work independently under pressure, requesting assistance when appropriate. When tools, processes and resources do not exist within Transplace's domain, demonstrating the initiative to seek-out appropriate solutions/tools.
• Multi-tasking - Handles multiple tasks simultaneously. Prioritizes and organizes assignments to make efficient use of time with significant attention to detail.
• Organizational Agility - Demonstrates a desire to understand how the various organizations within Transplace function. Knows how to get things done through both formal channels and informal networks. Can stimulate individuals or groups to work together to resolve conflicts or disagreements. Understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures. Uses good judgment when making exceptions to policies, practices, and procedures.
• Planning and Organizing - Uses time efficiently. Prioritizes and plans work activities. Anticipates situations in advance and prepares to cope with them. Ability to identify scope creep and provide feedback to necessary stakeholders. Integrates changes smoothly.
• Political Savvy - Ability to target communication effectively to achieve desired results with both internal and external customers
• Presentation Skills - Ability to present results to both internal and external customers in a manner that the customer understands and with which he/she can operate.
• Sense of Urgency - Possesses the attitude and determination to stay focused on results and deadlines until the task or project is completed.
• Technical Orientation - Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment. Picks up on technical concepts quickly. Experiments and enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks and finding solutions. Quickly grasps the essence of underlying structure. Is good at learning new industry, company, product, or technical knowledge. This includes Basic Programming Skills (SQL, VB, Java, etc.)

Skills

• Client relationship management
• Intermediate Operations Research and Simulation Background
• Expertise in Coupa’s (LLamasoft) Supply chain guru X modeling tool
• Proven track record of providing decision support using complex analysis or decision support tools
• Excellent communication skills and ability to conduct client presentations at executive level

Experience and Education

• Minimum of 5 Years of experience in a logistics engineering role is required
• S. degree in Industrial Engineering or closely related field is required
• B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering or closely related field with 5+ years of experience in the transportation/logistics industry can be substituted for a Master's degree