Lead Solutions Design Engineer – SIMIO Warehouse, Transportation Simulation
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Lead Solutions Design Engineer designing and optimizing Ryder’s supply-chain transportation and warehouse solutions with SIMIO. Supporting proposals, customer pursuits, and startup transitions.
Responsibilities:
- Support growth of Supply Chain Solutions and Dedicated Transportation Solution offerings by developing, designing, and winning new business
- Design solutions that deliver financial value to customers and align with customer needs and Ryder's operational and technical capabilities
- Demonstrate understanding of customers' businesses and develop feasible, sustainable designs
- Support pursuit teams with win-plan shaping and participate throughout pursuits from start to successful startup transition
- Review RFP documents, understand objectives, identify gaps, develop clarifying questions, and create solution-design hypotheses
- Validate, cleanse, and profile data; develop baselines and define modeling scenarios
- Calculate labor, equipment, facility, and expense requirements based on transportation and warehousing assumptions
- Develop process flows, concepts of operations, value propositions, systems concepts, cost models, pricing models, and assumptions
- Develop optimization scenarios and strategies aligned with objectives
- Meet frequently with customers and cross-functional bid-response teams
- Support technical review presentations and design-validation meetings
- Follow up on implementation by validating and modifying deployed processes to match the plan
- Develop and improve engineering tools and methodologies according to industry best practices
- Lead consulting projects by understanding customer pain points and developing and presenting solutions
- Manage or mentor a small team of Solutions Design Engineers
- Write and deliver compelling proposals that influence customer selection of Ryder
- Support awarded business through startup and transition design and proposal assumptions to Operations and SCE CI resources
Requirements:
- Simio experience REQUIRED
- Bachelor's degree required in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management or Industrial Engineering
- Six (6) years or more in the Transportation industry required
- Six (6) years or more in the Warehousing and/or Manufacturing industry required
- Superb data organization and cleansing skills
- Advanced skills using design applications, tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze and design complex transportation and warehousing networks
- Familiarity with simulation tools, transportation and warehouse management systems, ERPs, automation, MHE, visibility tools, and industry-leading technologies preferred
- Ability to influence project teams using facts, statistics, and analytics
- Ability to comprehend complex supply chain and transportation solutions and segment design processes into manageable elements and process steps
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization
- Expert Microsoft Office Suite skills, especially Access, Excel, and PowerPoint, required
- Intermediate visualization (Tableau, Microsoft) and database programming knowledge preferred
- Advanced knowledge of effective metrics programs and sustainable, measurable network design required
- Extensive knowledge of Dedicated Services and Managed Transportation Networks
- Required knowledge of available equipment types, including dry van, temperature control, flat bed, and specialized equipment
- Expert transportation design tools knowledge, including JDA, Appian, Llamasoft, JDA, OTM, and Tableau
- Extensive knowledge of warehouse management operations, data analytics, industrial engineering, warehouse types, warehouse layout/design, and Lean methods
- Required knowledge of material handling and automation solutions, including PIT applications, racking, storage solutions, packaging equipment, conveyor and sortation equipment, and AS/RS
- Expert knowledge of warehouse design tools and systems, including CAD/AutoCAD, Slot3D, MOST, simulation software, Manhattan Scale, Labor Management Systems, Llamasoft, and Tableau
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Prescription coverage
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance options
- Paid time off for vacation, illness, bereavement, family and parental leave
- Tax-advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Annual bonus, commission, and/or long-term incentive plan may be available
- Room to grow
- Equal opportunity and drug-free workplace
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