Lead Solutions Design Engineer – SIMIO Warehouse, Transportation Simulation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist in expanding the Supply Chain Solutions and Dedicated Transportation Solution offerings by creating, designing, and securing new business opportunities.

• Craft solutions that provide financial benefits to clients while aligning with their requirements and Ryder's operational and technical capabilities.

• Exhibit a comprehensive understanding of clients' businesses to formulate practical and sustainable designs.

• Collaborate with pursuit teams to shape win-plans and engage throughout the pursuit process from initiation to successful startup transition.

• Analyze RFP documents, grasp objectives, pinpoint gaps, formulate clarifying questions, and develop hypotheses for solution design.

• Validate, cleanse, and profile data; establish baselines and outline modeling scenarios.

• Assess labor, equipment, facility, and expense needs based on transportation and warehousing assumptions.

• Create process flows, operational concepts, value propositions, system concepts, cost models, pricing models, and underlying assumptions.

• Formulate optimization scenarios and strategies in line with objectives.

• Regularly meet with clients and cross-functional bid-response teams.

• Assist in technical review presentations and design-validation meetings.

• Follow through on implementation by verifying and adjusting deployed processes to align with the plan.

• Enhance and develop engineering tools and methodologies based on industry best practices.

• Lead consulting projects by identifying customer challenges and devising and presenting effective solutions.

• Oversee or mentor a small team of Solutions Design Engineers.

• Compose and present persuasive proposals that sway customer decisions in favor of Ryder.

• Facilitate the transition of awarded business through startup and design proposal assumptions to Operations and SCE CI resources.

⛳️ Requirements

• Simio experience is REQUIRED.

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management, or Industrial Engineering is mandatory.

• A minimum of six (6) years of experience in the Transportation industry is required.

• A minimum of six (6) years of experience in the Warehousing and/or Manufacturing industry is required.

• Exceptional skills in data organization and cleansing are essential.

• Advanced proficiency in utilizing design applications, tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze and create complex transportation and warehousing networks is necessary.

• Familiarity with simulation tools, transportation and warehouse management systems, ERPs, automation, MHE, visibility tools, and leading industry technologies is preferred.

• Ability to influence project teams using factual data, statistics, and analytics.

• Capability to understand complex supply chain and transportation solutions and break down design processes into manageable components and steps.

• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills are critical.

• Ability to foster and maintain professional relationships across all organizational levels.

• Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Access, Excel, and PowerPoint, is required.

• Intermediate knowledge of visualization tools (Tableau, Microsoft) and database programming is preferred.

• Advanced understanding of effective metrics programs and sustainable, measurable network design is required.

• Extensive knowledge of Dedicated Services and Managed Transportation Networks is necessary.

• Thorough understanding of various equipment types, including dry van, temperature control, flatbed, and specialized equipment is required.

• Expert knowledge of transportation design tools, including JDA, Appian, Llamasoft, JDA, OTM, and Tableau.

• Extensive insight into warehouse management operations, data analytics, industrial engineering, warehouse types, layout/design, and Lean methods.

• Required knowledge of material handling and automation solutions, including PIT applications, racking, storage solutions, packaging equipment, conveyor and sortation equipment, and AS/RS.

• Expert knowledge of warehouse design tools and systems, including CAD/AutoCAD, Slot3D, MOST, simulation software, Manhattan Scale, Labor Management Systems, Llamasoft, and Tableau.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Prescription coverage.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Options for disability insurance.

• Paid time off for vacation, illness, bereavement, family, and parental leave.

• Tax-advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan.

• Potential for an annual bonus, commission, and/or long-term incentive plan.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Commitment to equal opportunity and a drug-free workplace.