Senior Specialist, Domestic Solutions Engineering; 1st Shift - Lewisville TX

Position: Senior Specialist, Domestic Solutions Engineering (1st Shift) - Lewisville TX
Job Description

Overview:

The purpose of the position is to support CLS, CFS, DNS and LTS business development by leading the development of engineered solutions for new and existing customers. This position leads and support operational design solutions, engineering and financial modeling and pricing coordination with operations management, functional and strategy teams. This role collaborates closely with Solutions Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and commercial leads.

This role also leads and supports engineering projects and initiatives coordinated through APLL Innovation and Process Improvement engineering team within APLL CLS, CFS, DNS and LTS network.

This mid-level position works and collaborates closely with operations, IT, vendors, and project management teams. This position will be tasked to support projects aimed to produce higher productivities through the implementation of best practices, new/ upgraded technology and automation, labor management systems, process optimization, and product flow among others.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Development of flexible, scalable, innovative, and cost-effective engineered solutions for warehouse operations such as Receiving, Put Away, Picking, and Loading.

• Material Handling Solutions
• Order Fulfilment Solutions
• Storage System Solutions
• Integrated solutions with WMS and WCS systems
• Process Improvements

Supports new business development cycle: lead, solution design, pricing, and proposal development.

Works directly with commercial, operations, technology, project management teams in the review and analysis of RFPs to identify and approve pricing and contractual requirements to ensure feasibility of projects with respect to company costs and budget.

Works directly and collaborate with multifunctional areas: IT, Project Management, Finance, Procurement, and Operations.

Coordinates and executes project activities:

• Process Improvement / Lean Projects
• Labor Management System deployment/ maintenance
• Business Development support
• New business on boarding
• Technology upgrades
• New technology deployment.

Builds and maintains engineering models/databases.

Builds and maintains facility layout drawings in AutoCAD.

Conducts field observations, gathers data, and analyses data:

• Work measurement
• Process analysis
• Product flow analysis
• Space analysis
• Interviews / Observations

Complete research on market trends: labor, technology, and innovation.

10. Document and publish reports: projects, meetings, studies, observations.

Key Result Areas:

Leads and supports in the design of engineered solutions, preparation of financial operational models and the coordination of implementation project cost estimation.

Identifies opportunities to introduce and deploy best practices and methods that result in a positive improvement on how the operation and/or the customer integrated solution should operate more efficiently.

Assists on the financial estimates and preparation of projects ROI, WACC, ROIC, ROCE.

Leads in the preparation of engineered solution presentations for internal and external audiences.

Customer / Commercial presentations. Defends proposed solutions and elaborates on solutions justification and solutions benefits to the business.

Supports efforts for Request For Information (RFI) and/ or Request For Proposal (RFP).

Reviews and analyses RFP documents and data provided by customers.

Supports the development of conceptual operational process and layout for a new CLS operations.

Leads/Supports multiple projects simultaneously.

Project Manages solutions implementation. Monitors and measures solutions returns and benefits to the business.

Leads and supports engineering sessions with MHE technology vendors for the purpose of operational process integration.

Leads and supports engineering discovery sessions with internal and customer stakeholders and validates data, volumes, operational requirements and facilitates the definition of solution gaps.

Coordinates and produces final detailed operational layout.

Performs audits while new solution is being deployed to ensure expected productivities are met.

Performs on-site work measurements to validate / audit expected productivities.

Provides integration support with MHE Technology vendor.

Performs acceptance testing for MHE solutions.

Provides timely status reports to Manager on the progress of assigned projects via weekly status conference calls and/ or written reports.

Documents and publishes written solution design project status reports on weekly basis.

Participates on operational reviews with functional areas: HR, Procurement, Finance, IT and FIT, Implementations, and Operations.

Assists on the preparation of executive summaries for every design project.

Maintains meeting minutes and project correspondence with project stakeholders, project owners, project resources, and project sponsors.

Actively support SCS process improvement initiatives and also evaluates process improvements initiatives generated by the operation teams.

Validates that Job Functions, Operator Profiles, SOPs…