Route Optimization Engineer - Remote

Vestis Uniforms and Workplace Supplies | Canadian Linen & Uniform Service | Québec Linge Service D’Uniformes • Atlanta, GA

28d • Remote

About The Position

Meet Vestis®: For the People Who Make It All Work
At Vestis®, we provide uniforms, workplace supplies, and professional cleaning that help businesses simplify their workday and keep their teams safe, confident, and focused on what matters most. More than a provider, we are a partner in productivity, trusted to keep you running.
Join us and build a career supporting the people who make it all work.
This role is part of a broader strategic imperative to achieve operating efficiencies while improving customer service and delivery performance. As such, the Route Design Engineer will report and work directly with the Director, Route Solutions.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years’ progressive experience in complex supply chain and logistics operations.
• Extensive knowledge of route optimization or the proficiency and aptitude to learn route modeling principles and techniques
• Proven operational and technical expertise
• Excellent analytic and data skills in developing actionable KPIs and metrics around service and cost
• Analytical approach to problem solving and a passion for delivering service excellence to our customers
• Extreme proficiency with Microsoft Suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Nice To Haves

• Strategic team member with confidence and speed in execution
• Ability to analyze data and make decisions on prioritization of projects
• Ability to solve complex problems
• Ability to execute and engineer route solutions to meet business needs
• Ability to coordinate activity between all departments across multiple time zones
• Sound judgement and decision-making skills
• Must possess a Continuous Improvement Mindset
• Strong understanding of route engineering strategies
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong systems knowledge/capability to manage and integrate operating data
• Strong presentation and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Business-critical team member in a fast-paced, high-volume, and dynamic fulfillment environment. Responsible for strategic oversight, process execution, and timely handoff of route output solutions
• Must possess the ability to make critical business decisions related to identifying opportunities, resources, and prioritizing route optimization projects for a 1.1 billion dollar supply chain organization
• Conduct ongoing engineering and optimization of all market center service routes to improve efficiency and labor trends. This role will provide baseline performance data as well as projected outcome statistics
• Responsible for involving and directing critical team members in the system data cleanup to ensure accurate engineered route output
• Assists with the generation and publishing of delivery metrics as needed, including baseline and projected productivity metrics for handoff to the execution team for post-project implementation
• Responsible for being the recognized company expert on route engineering software as well as statistical route data
• Develop Route Engineering process guidance documentation (Standard Operating Procedures) and project timeline expectations for all ongoing and future projects
• Collaborate with key area departments and Market Centers on ongoing route maintenance opportunities based on business changes related to growth/new business prospects

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• short and long term disability
• basic life insurance
• paid parental leave
• 401k plan
• 80 hours of vacation
• 16 hours of floating holidays
• paid sick time
• 9 paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level