Lead Solutions Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Identify optimal methods for the secure and efficient storage of customer products.

• Estimate the necessary square footage and ceiling height requirements for warehouse real estate searches.

• Execute industrial engineering tasks, including process mapping, value stream mapping, process design, space planning, CAD layout design, index and scope-creep measurement, as well as inventory and slotting evaluations.

• Develop workflows and processes for receiving, picking, packing, and shipping.

• Establish labor standards and ensure alignment between IT WMS and warehouse workflows and processes.

• Choose suitable material handling equipment.

• Price solutions in pro formas utilizing the Kenco pricing model.

• Collaborate with Real Estate, IT, and HR to acquire pricing information.

• Apply labor rates to process hours along with management, coordinator, and clerk support costs.

• Gather costs for storage equipment, forklifts, IT hardware, building enhancements, and related items.

• Modify pricing according to customer templates and collect client profile data from Sales.

• Assist the Sales team with process descriptions, innovative solutions, and ongoing revisions.

• Present pricing proposals to both internal and external clients.

• Visit customer locations to collect pertinent information.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of current processes.

• Conduct ROI analyses.

• Report billable hours to the appropriate accounts.

• Engage in operational audits.

• Design comprehensive solutions that include e-commerce and semi-automated options.

• Manage cost-plus, FVR, and unit-rate pricing strategies, covering multi-site and scenario pricing.

• Train colleagues on modeling, pricing, various scenarios, MHE, and WMS functionalities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from an accredited four-year institution.

• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Proficiency in CAD, PowerBi, SketchUp, Copilot/Claude.

• Advanced skills in Excel.

• Understanding of cost structures, including Cost +, FVR (Fixed-Variable-Reimbursable), and Unit Rates.

• Familiarity with operations, including shift patterns, seasonality, and the direct versus indirect ratio of staffing and training.

• Knowledge of fundamental financial concepts and company thresholds.

• Experience with Korber, Blue Yonder, or Veracore WMS.

• Familiarity with all types of material handling equipment.

• Capability to perform ROI analysis.

• Ability to participate in operational audits.

• Capacity to report billable hours to appropriate accounts promptly.

• Willingness to visit customer sites and gather information with professionalism and confidentiality.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical insurance, including HSA, HRA, and FSA accounts.

• Supplemental insurance options such as critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accidental injury coverage.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Basic life and supplemental life insurance.

• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.

• Paid parental leave.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Approximately two weeks of paid time off, with accrual beginning on the first day of employment.

• Ten paid holidays covered by the employer.