Warehouse Senior Solutions Design Engineer (remote)

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Job Description:

Summary
Solutions Design Engineer II are responsible to support the growth of our Supply Chain Solutions & Dedicated Transportation Solution offerings by developing, designing and winning new business through:

• Designing solutions that deliver financial value to our Customers

• Demonstrating an understanding of our Customer's business

• Providing feasible designs that are aligned with our Customer's needs

• Helping the pursuit team with shaping wins plans consistent with our solution design

• Providing sustainable designs that are aligned with Ryder's operational & technical capabilities

• Writing and delivering a compelling proposal that influences the customer decision to select Ryder

• Support awarded business throughout the startup process, successfully transitioning design and proposal assumptions to Operations and SCE CI resources through the Customer Due Diligence process

Solutions Design Engineer II will support a pursuit from start to finish and will be an active team member throughout the various stages of the pursuit all the way through successful transition during startup. Key activities include:

• Specialize in a single design discipline

• Use advance analytical techniques and concepts to understand the business

• Execute design processes to create, re-design, or optimize logistics networks

• Think and act independently and creatively

• Effectively communicate the design and solution to internal stake holders & the client

Essential Functions

• Calculating labor, equipment, facility and expense requirements based on transportation and warehousing design assumptions. Develop process flows, concept of operations and value propositions consistent with the win strategy and work with IT to develop concept of systems. Calculating labor, equipment, facility and expense requirements based on transportation and warehousing design assumptions. Develop process flows, concept of operations and value propositions consistent with the win strategy and work with IT to develop concept of systems. Coordinate with Pricing and other functions to develop cost and pricing models as well as relevant assumptions

• Data validation, cleansing, profiling, baseline development & defining scenarios to model

• Develop optimizations scenarios and strategies that are aligned with objectives

• Support the bid submission process by reviewing RFP documents, understand objectives, develop questions to clarify gaps and develop initial hypothesis specific to a specific solution design that solves our customer's needs & delivers unique value

• Meet frequently with customers and cross-functional bid response team. Support technical review presentations and design validation meetings

• Implementation follow-up, which requires engineer to validate and modify deployed process to ensure that it matches plan

• Develop and improve engineering tools and methodologies to ensure industry best practices

• Support consulting projects that involve understanding customers’ pain-points developing and presenting solutions

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills and Abilities

• Superb data organization and cleansing skills

• Exhibit advanced skills and concepts using design applications, tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze and design complex transportation and warehousing networks

• Familiarity in simulation tools, transportation & warehouse management systems, ERPs, Automation, MHE, Visibility Tools, and industry leading technologies (preferred)

• Ability to influence the project teams by using facts, statistics, and analytics

• Comprehend complex supply chain and transportation solutions and segment design processes into manageable elements and process steps

• Good verbal, written and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex designs, concepts, and regulations into terms readily understood

• Learning to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization (peers, work groups, customers, supervisors)

• Expert Microsoft Office Suite skills with emphasis on Access, Excel and PowerPoint expert required

• Knowledgeable of visualization (Tableau, Microsoft) and database programmi