FedEx

Engineering Specialist I

FedEx • $65K — $101K *
Carol Stream, IL 60188In-Person
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Transportation, Logistics, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in operations management within the transportation industry or Industrial Engineering.
  • 1 year of Area/Sort/P&D Manager experience required, if no relevant degree is possessed.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office and web-based applications.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Advise and develop engineering and operational plans to improve efficiencies.
  • Conduct facility assessments to identify and resolve inefficiencies.
  • Facilitate training on operational systems and procedures for teams.
  • Generate network alignment and capacity planning documents.
  • Forecast labor needs and prepare operational plans for resource allocation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for travel up to 75%.
  • Some remote work possibilities based on business needs.
  • Comprehensive health and retirement benefits as detailed separately.
Full Job Description
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.

Essential Functions
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Creates Network Alignment Plans.
  • Determines Capacity Planning to ensure full use of facilities.
  • Prepares Volume Projections for short term/future/long range.
  • Oversees District Changes (spin offs, expansions, relocations).
  • Forecasts labor and project manning needs for current/future.
  • Evaluates Hub/Linehaul cut times to determine if they are meeting requirements.
  • Develops Labor Standards to minimize labor hours as needed.
  • Produces monthly operational plans to determine required resources needed with special focus on Peak planning.
  • Responsible for goal/budget setting (productivity, service and cost) to turn cost inefficiencies into cost savings.
  • Provides material handling project recommendations, including financial analysis, to justify facility expansions.
  • Constructs contingency plans for potential abnormal events.
  • Acts as a subject-matter expert on all operational/system/technology processes and upgrades.
  • Identifies possible gaps in adherence to SQI metrics as it pertains to scanning, pickup, delivery, loss, and damage.
  • Trains management on operational processes and procedures.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.


Minimum Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Transportation, Logistics, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math required. OR
  • 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:
  • The transportation industry in a a relevant operations management role OR o Industrial Engineering experience in any field.

Minimum Experience
  • No Industrial Engineering Experience with relevant degree required. OR
  • 1 year Area/Sort/P&D Manager experience required.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities
  • Software skills, including use of Microsoft Office software and web-based applications.
  • Working knowledge of Business Objects.
  • Verbal and written communication skills necessary to explain complex and/or confidential information.
  • Presentation skills necessary to facilitate training and/or deliver informational sessions to groups and/or individuals.
  • Time management and organizational skills necessary to manage multiple projects, appropriately prioritize workload, plan for resources to meet deadlines and goals, and respond to day-to-day functional needs.
  • Ability to anticipate and identify problems and use sound judgment and fact-based analysis to develop effective and efficient solutions.
  • Ability to inspire a shared vision and empower and motivate a team.
  • Ability to travel up to 75%.
  • Knowledge of concepts related to Material Handling, Computer Aided Design, and Business Object preferred.
  • Ability to perform cost justification analysis.

Job Conditions
  • Some travel may be required.


Preferred Qualifications:

Pay Transparency:

Pay: $65,217.65 - $101,283.95/yr

Additional Details: Flexibility to hire individuals at the Engineering Specialist I - V levels and is dependent on overall experience.

Pay Transparency:

The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location or locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the ranges for each level in that job family. Actual pay is determined by several job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, including, but not limited to, experience relative to the job, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. In California, the compensation listed reflects the range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position upon hire. In New Jersey, any compensable Security and Walk time will be paid to non-exempt/hourly employees at the state minimum wage.

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Learn more about FedEx
Size
228,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.6 billion
Industry
Transportation
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1973
5 Year Trend
+9.2%
Revenue
$74.7 billion
NASDAQ
FDX
* Ladders Estimates

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