Director of Logistics Planning

Director of Logistics Planning

Location(s) Scottsdale, Arizona Company DEPCOM Power Career Field Supply Chain

What You Will Do

• Establish and communicate a long-term logistics planning vision aligned with business strategy, project execution needs, and value creation.
• Lead warehousing, transportation, logistics planning, inventory control, fleet and asset management, and harness manufacturing.
• Drive upfront logistics planning and schedule alignment with procurement, construction, manufacturing, and project controls to support successful project execution.
• Develop scalable logistics planning systems, standards, and processes that improve material visibility, reliability, responsiveness, and cost competitiveness.
• Lead warehouse and inventory control strategies focused on material availability, inventory accuracy, cycle counts, and material accountability.
• Oversee transportation planning, carrier performance, freight optimization, mobilization, expedited shipments, and project site delivery performance.
• Own fleet and asset management strategy, including utilization, lifecycle planning, maintenance discipline, vendor relationships, replacement planning, and total cost of ownership.
• Support harness manufacturing operations through disciplined material planning, inventory governance, staging, kitting, and delivery alignment.
• Identify and close cross-functional gaps that create delays, excess cost, rework, poor handoffs, or execution risk.
• Use data, KPIs, root cause analysis, and frontline knowledge to drive sustainable corrective actions and continuous improvement.
• Develop managers and emerging leaders by clarifying decision rights, building capability, mentoring talent, and creating succession plans.
• Lead forecasting, capital planning, vendor strategy, and business cases that improve cost competitiveness and long-term value creation.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external providers to ensure logistics planning decisions balance cost, schedule, quality, safety, risk, and customer commitments.

Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)

• Total logistics cost improvement and logistics cost per MW
• Project material readiness and schedule adherence
• On-time delivery performance and reduction in unplanned expedited freight
• Inventory accuracy, cycle count compliance, and material availability
• Warehouse capacity utilization and storage cost optimization
• Fleet and asset utilization, uptime, maintenance compliance, and lifecycle cost
• Harness manufacturing material readiness, throughput support, and delivery alignment
• Continuous improvement savings, productivity gains, and closed execution gaps
• Leadership development, succession readiness, role clarity, and decision quality

• Experience in progressive logistics, warehouse, transportation, manufacturing support, fleet, asset, or supply chain leadership
• Experience leading managers and cross-functional teams in a project-based, operational, construction, manufacturing, or industrial environment.
• Strong knowledge of inventory management, warehousing, transportation logistics, fleet management, asset management, and logistics planning.
• Demonstrated ability to build scalable processes, close execution gaps, and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong financial and economic thinking skills with experience managing budgets, cost improvement initiatives, capital decisions, and operational tradeoffs.
• Experience communicating and influencing executive leadership, project teams, frontline leaders, suppliers, and external partners.

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Logistics, Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of progressive logistics, warehouse, transportation, manufacturing support, fleet, asset, or supply chain leadership experience.
• Experience in renewable energy, EPC, construction, manufacturing, industrial logistics, or project-based supply chain environments.
• Experience with ERP, WMS, TMS, fleet management systems, asset management tools, performance dashboards, or logistics technology implementations.
• MBA or advanced degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• Track record of developing leaders who take ownership, challenge waste, make sound tradeoffs, and improve business outcomes.
• Experience using GenAI for workplace efficiencies.