Managing Consultant – Operations & Optimization

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Spearhead critical consulting projects as the primary subject matter expert for port executives and terminal directors.

• Steer the development of digital transformation and automation strategies.

• Lead multidisciplinary teams managing multiple global initiatives simultaneously.

• Cultivate executive-level relationships and facilitate workshops at the board level.

• Ensure strategic alignment among terminal management, engineering, IT, and operational teams.

• Perform comprehensive audits of waterside, landside, and gate operations.

• Identify bottlenecks, periods of inactivity, and operational inefficiencies.

• Enhance vessel stowage planning, quay crane scheduling, yard stacking, and truck turnaround procedures.

• Assist manual or semi-automated terminals in achieving operational readiness, managing change, and adapting workflows towards full automation.

• Integrate TOS modules, including Expert Decking, Auto Stow, Prime Route, ASC Scheduler, and Horizontal Transport Schedulers.

• Ensure software logic is compatible with quay cranes, automated stacking cranes, rubber-tired gantries, and automated transport vehicles.

• Configure and optimize parameters for N4, XPS, and ECN4.

• Mentor Terminal Control Room operators, planners, and supervisors.

• Design and conduct operational training workshops.

• Develop, monitor, and report on operational KPIs such as crane moves per hour, truck turnaround times, and yard density.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of marine coordination, gate logistics, yard consolidation, dual-cycling logic, and exception handling.

• Demonstrated operational expertise in both traditional manual terminals and advanced automated/semi-automated container facilities.

• Profound understanding of equipment behaviors, traffic regulations, buffer management, and safety protocols for heavy port machinery.

• Strong practical experience with N4, XPS, ECN4, Yard Crane Schedulers (YCS), Horizontal Transport (HT) modules, and associated automation interfaces.

• Capability to analyze complex operational data, identify systemic problems, and convert insights into software or procedural solutions.

• Outstanding communication skills to connect IT/engineering, terminal management, and unionized or frontline workforce personnel.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Inclusive work environment.

• Commitment to diversity.