Senior Director, Engineering

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DSV - Global transport and logistics
In 1976, ten independent hauliers joined forces and founded DSV in Denmark. Since then, DSV has evolved to become the world's 3rdlargest supplier of global solutions within transport and logistics. Today, we add value to our customers' entire supply chain by transporting, storing, packaging, re-packaging, processing and clearing all types of goods. We work every day from our many offices in more than 80 countries to ensure a steady supply of goods to production lines, outlets, stores and consumers all over the world.

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Location:

USA - VIRTUAL - US Texas

Division:

Solutions
Job Posting

Title:

Senior Director, Engineering - 116518
Time Type:
Full Time

Position Summary:

The Senior Director of Engineering is responsible for managing, coaching, tracking and reporting through their heads of department – CIP and Project Engineering a highly skilled team in which the departments are responsible for designing and implementing common Contract Logistics processes tied to new facility construction (greenfield), client migration (brownfield) and deployment of technology with continued efforts related to driving continuous performance improvement across all Contract Logistics facilities within geographic area of responsibility.

It also includes indirect responsibilities to drive the organizations enterprise baseline of engineering in Canada and LATAM.

The Senior Director is responsible for maintaining department budgets, financial and engineering metrics that will meet or exceed performance goals. In addition, this position is also responsible for direct, develop and mentoring of the team to build engineering competency and grow talent within the organization. This person will have responsibility to support operations in order to meet budgeted operating profits and cost reduction objectives.

This role also works with regional peers around the globe to ensure consistent best practices are deployed across the contract logistics network.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Research/Analysis
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• Keep informed and up to date on best-in-class tools and techniques needed for operational design
• Track all projects and provide communication and guidance to senior management team
• Determine and enlist resources required to support targeted changes in support of CI project including Engineering, WMS Developers, Operations, Safety, Security, Quality, Etc.
• Analyze workflow including inbound, put away, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping and VAS processes to ensure accuracy and ability to execute or identify opportunities for improvement
• Ensures all distribution system functionality is configured to optimize performance (e.g., WMS, LMS)
• Analyzes contractual commitments, customer specifications, design changes and other data to develop optimum solutions for operation
• Performs special research or technical studies critical to logistic support functions
• Performs cost/benefit tradeoff analysis and develop ROI business cases for recommended projects involving process, system, or technology change
• Develops logistics engineering strategies with the senior management team
• Participation in Quality Planning sessions “DQP” with new clients validating requirements, processes and ensure successful deployment of project

Documentation/Reporting:

Document and communicate common processes for all distribution functions within scope of responsibility

Review data and summarize expectations to address gaps with team or in operation

Identify areas for improvement based on analysis of data, team feedback and observations

Maintain repository of lessons learned from all projects in effort to continuously improve and avoid repeat of past…