Engineering and Process Improvement Lead Engineer

About the Client:

The client provides innovative, global supply-chain solutions across Automotive, Consumer, Industrial and Retail markets. These solutions include Order Management, Distribution & Fulfillment, Customs Brokerage and Transportation products delivered across six regions. They also pioneered the use of visual data analysis and offer a robust Data Management and Analytics product suite to help its customers understand and solve complex problems that span systems and processes. 

Job Purpose*

The primary objective of this position is to improve operational efficiency and productivity successfully through applying industry-leading lean /six sigma tools. This position is also responsible for winning and retaining customers by offering industry-leading solutions design to improve customers supply chain operations, as well as designing and analyzing operational solutions for customer tender proposals, assigned projects, and existing supply chain operations.

Roles & Responsibilities*

Data and Statistical Analysis

• Regular interaction with Country Operations Management and Customers for the purpose of gathering, validating and documenting operational requirements.
• Conducts systematic in-depth research and analysis into issues of varying complexity.
• Initiates, defines and leads the development and communication of effective reports to key stakeholders, including executive/senior management.
• Facilitate development of new analytics solutions to address existing gaps in analytics tools
• Estimates costs and identify business savings.
• Provides reports, presentations and relevant information to senior management as required.
• Ensures the effective development and use of information or record management systems or reporting practices.

Process Improvement and Change Management

• Ensures team awareness of current processes and procedures, and relevant Company and regulatory requirements, which may impact the operation or department. Takes steps to ensure any changes are implemented.
• Ensures completion of audit and reviews of existing processes or documentation to ensure appropriate standards and rules are applied.
• Manage the identification and facilitate the implementation of process improvement initiatives to ensure minimal disruption of business operations during transition period
• Facilitate development of specific risk mitigation strategies for critical business operations
• Identify issues, risks and benefits of existing and proposed solutions and outline business impacts
• Works collaboratively with operations teams to formulate solutions to operations issues and challenges
• Simplify information and decipher technical jargon so it is easily understood by the whole team.

Solutioning Engineering

• Develop and execute logistics improvement projects to support revenue and profitability growth strategy
• Participate and maintain efficiency in the expansion and/or enhancement of logistics services
• Develop products and tools to support country growth strategies
• Plan, develop and implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as measurement tools to achieve customer intensity goals and objectives
• Support the assigned project team by coaching and providing guidance to team members
• Drive innovation ideas, introduce and implement new concepts and technology on existing best practices
• Provide internal and external status reports on time
• Develop and establish customer intelligence database for sales, marketing as well as operations to drive country growth plan through intelligence and analytic approach
• Take lead in customer tender proposal
• Present operation solutions to the customer as a key part of the tender process
• Manage partnerships with key vendors to optimize costing and lead time
• Ensure on-time implementation of the assigned projects
• Manage scope, budget, changes, progress, and risk of the assigned projects
• Support South East Asia sales and marketing activities and assure alignment with country strategies

Qualification*

• Bachelor's degree or above in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical and Production Engineering, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Logistics or related field
• More than 4 years of work experience operations analysis, planning and engineering and/or related consulting work ideally in the logistics, transportation or supply chain industry.

Requirements*

• At least 5 years of working experience in a similar role in the logistics industry, with a focus in operation analysis, planning, warehouse and transport management solutions design
• Excellent project management skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Proven ability to understand and analyse problems and find solutions
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Good command of spoken and written English
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Project Management, PowerPoint, Visio is a plus
• Able to work under pressure / tight deadline as a team, self-motivated, and be able to work independently
• Use of engineering tools Autocad, CAPS, llama soft Supply Chain Guru
• Experience and knowledge in sketch up drawing is preferred
• Good teamwork and technical leadership, creativity, and resourcefulness
• Effective stakeholder engagement, including but not limited to ability to present findings and recommendations to senior leaders and to manage stakeholder meetings.

Key Result Areas

• Develop and maintain cost estimates, forecasts on cost models successfully
• Improve efficiency by evaluating the use of technologies
• Create models or scenarios to predict the impact of change in solutions design
• Achieve cost saving initiative through engineering approach
• Implement and manage projects within the budget successfully
• Implement continuous improvement program to achieve business retention and acquisition of new business successfully
• Enhance service capabilities and align with country growth plan by new product and service development

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