Engineering Project Leader Transportation and Warehouse

ConAgra Foods • Chicago, IL

5d • $81,000 - $118,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, as the Engineering Project Leader – Transportation and Warehouse (T&W) you'll provide Engineering support in the Transportation and Warehouse space. You'll develop and lead capital projects at distribution centers and manufacturing plant warehouses. You'll also develop and execute a warehouse Material Handling Equipment (MHE) strategy to maximize asset effectiveness while keeping capital spend and R&M costs within budget.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Supply Chain Management
• 5 + years previous Industrial Engineering or logistics/distribution engineering experience
• Experience with warehouse equipment maintenance (MHE, dock equipment, etc.) and warehouse material handling processes and operating practices and budgets
• Experience in Project Management of projects up to $2MM
• Experience with project development in warehouse infrastructure or warehouse cost reduction
• Financial acumen and experience developing project cost justifications
• Experience in inventory management, warehouse, or distribution, operations or other supply chain related function that interfaces engineering with distribution operations.
• Comfortable making presentations and communicate findings to senior level management.
• Experience driving programs and influence without direct reporting relationships
• Excel – Intermediate level / MS Project Visio or other Flow-Charting Experience
• We ask that you travel up to 50%

Responsibilities

• Understand business drivers and be able understand the impact of capital investment on corporate strategies
• Manually gather data from enterprise systems and distill data into insights
• Based on insights, develop alternative solutions to eliminate process inefficiencies and execute capital projects for warehouse function
• Work in collaboration with the manager to develop capital plans and manage the capital spend on assigned projects
• Manage capital projects to meet budget, timeline and performance metrics
• Oversee contactors to ensure projects are implemented safely
• Develop relationships to guide accountability and value with strategic suppliers, on-site operations teams, and finance teams.
• Subject Matter Expert Material Handling Equipment
• Develop and drive fleet strategies to optimize asset effectiveness and useful life while reducing maintenance costs
• Manage fleet of roughly 2500 pieces of rolling stock across our network
• Evaluate the latest fork truck, battery, and charging technologies and understand their application in our network
• Evaluate emerging material handling technologies and how to use material handling automation to reduce reliance on manual labor such as: AGVs, AMRs, AS/RS, conveyor systems, etc.
• Evaluate various material handling equipment - lease verses buy
• Develop warehouse equipment specifications to support state-of-the-art warehousing concepts and procedures
• Conduct fleet utilization studies and right-size fleets as necessary.

Benefits

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
• Wealth: G reat pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Balance: P aid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees