What you’ll do:

Provide engineering and project support to Americold facilities. Drive labor productivity and inventory control improvements through engineered labor standards, performance-based incentive roll-out, ideate and support the execution and sustainment of continuous improvement initiatives.
Leverage dashboards to monitor site-level labor, inventory, and service performance, identify issues, and drive corrective actions across all assigned sites.

•    Leverage dashboards to monitor site-level labor, inventory, and service performance, identify issues, and drive corrective actions across all assigned sites.
•    Identify and drive productivity improvement, process enhancement, and inventory control initiatives through continuous improvement projects.
•    Develop, validate, and maintain time-studied standards.
•     Calculate and implement performance incentives.
•     Ensure proper change management to sustain assigned projects.
•    Provide training to operations teams on labor management, inventory control, process improvement tools, and associated systems.
•    Evaluate and make recommendations for process improvements.
•    Evaluate material handling equipment requirements as needed.
•    Keep abreast of the latest technology in warehousing and evaluate for applications.
•    Develop project scopes, specifications, and estimates as needed.
•    Conduct audits and comparative site analyses to ensure compliance, identify performance gaps, and establish benchmarks for inventory control excellence.
•    Assist with improving productivity and reducing costs.
•    Create scheduling tools to capture work content.
•    Own 5 Habits and labor management system performance improvements.

What Experience and Education You Need:

•    Bachelor's degree or higher in Industrial Engineering or equivalent degree, such as Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or Logistics, is required.
•    3+ years of work experience in Industrial Engineering or combined equivalent experience with a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering or related field.
•    Experience in developing engineered labor standards.
•    Continuous improvement experience and knowledge of CI methodologies required.
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
•    Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
•    Must be able to utilize problem-solving techniques to identify root causes of failures and solutions to meet targets.
•    Strong business planning and analytical skills, including market intelligence, metrics, and financial analysis.
•    Must be self-motivated and self-directing. 
•    Knowledge of distribution center/logistics concepts – understanding of warehousing best practices.
•    Willingness to travel 50 – 75%.

What Could Set You Apart:

•    Experience within the distribution/warehouse/logistics industry preferred.
•    Proficient in RF Scanning and Warehouse Management Systems preferred.
•    Experience in semi and fully automated material handling systems a plus.
•    Ability to drive decision-making through data and relevant business metrics.
•    Ability to resolve problems in a timely manner with little or no supervision.
•    Ability to manage a project portfolio of varying priorities and impact value.
 •    Strong computer skills including SQL, Power B.I, MS Office and MSD/MOST experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

•    Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions.
•    Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending.
•    Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work.
•    Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks.
•    May require travel by automobile and airplane for business.
•    May require visits to warehouse operations in temperatures at or below freezing.
•    May require carrying loads related to travel and the occasional lifting, carrying, positioning, and/or moving of objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
•    Requires the use of various electronic tools.