Group Leader - Logistics, Transportation, & Packaging Engineer

Bosch Group•Florence, KY

13h

About The Position

The Logistics Transportation, Packaging & Engineering Group Leader is responsible for ensuring departmental goals and objectives—including inventory, costs, delivery performance, and improvement projects—are achieved. The role improves existing logistics systems and processes using continuous improvement methodology and lean logistics principles to reduce supply-chain waste. It provides coaching, counseling, and technical support to the transportation, packaging, and logistics engineering teams, and addresses conflicts that cannot be resolved at the team level. The position balances requirements and resources and contributes to company profit and loss. It regularly interacts with employees, management, senior management, customers, and suppliers, and supervises six direct reports: two Transportation Specialists, one Packaging Engineer, one hourly Packaging Technician, and two Logistics Engineers. The role’s professionalism, quality, and accuracy directly affect departmental operations and customer satisfaction. Duties may include other tasks as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Logistics Engineering, or a related field; alternatively, 5+ years of supply-chain planning, logistics, or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
Experience in lean manufacturing and logistics, inbound planning, customer planning, transportation management, change management, and warehousing or distribution operations.
Advanced language and communication skills.
Advanced mathematical skills.
Ability to multitask and make independent decisions, including complex decisions, while working under minimal supervision.
High sense of urgency, attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to create and implement lean material-flow processes; understand organizational strengths, weaknesses, and challenges; define priorities and strategies; and motivate, support, develop, and lead a team to execute plans.
Demonstrated leadership experience leading, developing, and engaging teams while driving business objectives and organizational effectiveness.
Change-management experience, such as digitalization or technological-improvement projects.
Advanced computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, with the ability to learn other software packages such as SAP, Axalant, and test software.
Interpersonal skills to communicate with coworkers.
Flexibility and adaptability to change, including working hours.
Comprehensive knowledge of production and inventory control methods, and analytical ability to review fluctuating demands and minimize production changes and inventory investments.
Ability to work in an office environment, including sitting or standing for most of the day, and to lift, carry, push, and pull material infrequently.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a discrete or automotive manufacturing environment.
German or Spanish language skills.
CSCMP certification.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary supervisor for transportation, packaging, and logistics engineers.
Direct and coordinate information-flow activity to ensure it is effective and economical.
Lead returnable and expendable packaging cost optimization and savings efforts.
Work with packaging suppliers to resolve package design, testing, quality, and internal production issues, from unitizing through agreed minimum order quantities.
Develop effective dunnage-management processes, including cleaning loops and damage replacement.
Analyze transportation routes to identify cost-effective options and optimize costs.
Lead continuous improvement efforts through Logistics Engineering in automation and physical intralogistics.
Apply leadership skills when formulating communications to customers.
Use data analytics to adapt procedures, processes, and techniques to support manufacturing requirements.
Use standard problem-solving tools, such as 5 Whys and A3, to identify root causes of deviations and drive systematic improvements.
Frequently communicate logistics KPIs, process optimization, and improvement-project status to executive management.
Participate in tours with key customers, stakeholders, and guests.
Manage customer complaints, resolve problems, and implement corrective actions.
Apply project-management principles to support cross-functional departmental activities.
Act as a knowledge resource and supervise knowledge transfer to others.
Balance departmental requirements and resources.