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Engineering Project Leader – Transportation, Warehouse
Conagra Brands
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $81,000 - $118,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide Engineering support in the Transportation and Warehouse space
- Develop and lead capital projects at distribution centers and manufacturing plant warehouses
- Develop and execute a warehouse Material Handling Equipment (MHE) strategy to maximize asset effectiveness while keeping capital spend and R&M costs within budget
- Understand business drivers and be able understand the impact of capital investment on corporate strategies
- Manually gather data from enterprise systems and distill data into insights
- Based on insights, develop alternative solutions to eliminate process inefficiencies and execute capital projects for warehouse function
- Work in collaboration with the manager to develop capital plans and manage the capital spend on assigned projects
- Manage capital projects to meet budget, timeline and performance metrics
- Oversee contractors to ensure projects are implemented safely
- Develop relationships to guide accountability and value with strategic suppliers, on-site operations teams, and finance teams
- Subject Matter Expert Material Handling Equipment
- Develop and drive fleet strategies to optimize asset effectiveness and useful life while reducing maintenance costs
- Manage fleet of roughly 2500 pieces of rolling stock across our network
- Evaluate the latest fork truck, battery, and charging technologies and understand their application in our network
- Evaluate emerging material handling technologies and how to use material handling automation to reduce reliance on manual labor such as: AGVs, AMRs, AS/RS, conveyor systems, etc.
- Evaluate various material handling equipment - lease verses buy
- Develop warehouse equipment specifications to support state-of-the-art warehousing concepts and procedures
- Conduct fleet utilization studies and right-size fleets as necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Supply Chain Management
- Minimum 5 years previous IE or logistics/distribution engineering experience
- Experience with warehouse equipment maintenance (MHE, dock equipment, etc.)
- Experience with warehouse material handling processes and operating practices and budgets
- Experience with project development in warehouse infrastructure or warehouse cost reduction
- Financial acumen and experience developing project cost justifications
- Experience making presentations and communicate findings to senior level management
- Experience driving programs and influence without direct reporting relationships
- Experience in inventory management, warehouse operations or other supply chain related function that interfaces engineering with distribution operations
- Experience in Project Management of projects up to $2MM
- Excel – Intermediate level / MS Project
- Visio or other Flow-Charting Experience
- Experience of distribution operations and overall supply chain management
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare plans
- Wellness incentive program
- Mental wellbeing support
- Fitness reimbursement
- Bonus incentive opportunity
- Matching 401(k)
- Stock purchase plan
- Career development opportunities
- Employee resource groups
- On-demand learning
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid-time off
- Parental leave
- Flexible work-schedules
- Volunteer opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Material Handling Equipment (MHE)warehouse equipment maintenanceproject developmentinventory managementproject managementfinancial acumendata analysisfleet managementcost reductionwarehouse operations
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationinfluenceaccountabilityrelationship buildingpresentation skillsproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingleadershiporganizational skills
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in EngineeringBachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management
