Logistics Engineer – Sanford Advanced Manufacturing

Supply Chain and Logistics

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Caterpillar is developing a new advanced manufacturing campus in Sanford, North Carolina, to expand production capacity for compact track loaders and telehandlers. The modern, technology-enabled operation is expected to incorporate automation, robotics, digital production systems and integrated logistics capabilities to enhance safety, quality and operational performance. Employees will help build the products our customers rely on while developing skills in advanced manufacturing and supporting the continued growth of Caterpillar’s Cat Compact℠ business.

As a Logistics Engineer in Sanford, North Carolina, you will help design and improve the material flow, warehousing, line-side delivery, and replenishment processes needed for launch readiness, production ramp-up, and long-term operational performance for a new advanced manufacturing facility.

This role is ideal for someone who takes ownership of complex design and implementation challenges, anticipates risks, makes sound decisions, and drives solutions through launch and stabilization. You will work with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, maintenance, and digital teams to remove barriers and deliver logistics systems that improve flow, reliability, and execution.

The Logistics Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving logistics processes that support safety, flow, space utilization, productivity, inventory accuracy, and delivery performance. This position applies lean manufacturing, industrial engineering, automation, and data analysis to establish scalable material-flow processes for a new operation. With automation designed into the facility from the start, the role identifies where automation can add value, selects fit-for-purpose solutions, integrates equipment with ERP and shop-floor systems, and optimizes material-handling equipment to deliver reliable throughput, availability, and return on investment.

The successful candidate will translate production needs into practical logistics designs and work across technical and nontechnical teams to implement them. The role requires strong analytical thinking, shop-floor partnership, attention to detail, communication, adaptability, and the ability to connect physical material flow with data, systems, and advanced manufacturing technology.

• Design end-to-end material-flow processes for receiving, warehousing, kitting, line-side delivery, point-of-use replenishment, packaging, and outbound movement, including critical handoff points to and from production.
• Develop new logistics layouts, flow paths, storage strategies, replenishment models, material-presentation methods, equipment interfaces, and standard work for launch readiness.
• Develop functional requirements, equipment specifications, capacity models, risk assessments, and acceptance criteria for automated logistics systems.
• Evaluate material‑handling technologies, connected systems, suppliers, and system integrators; recommend solutions based on safety, process fit, velocity, cost, scalability, and operating requirements.
• Build business cases and implementation plans for logistics equipment, systems, layouts, and process…