Senior Logistics Engineer

RXO, Inc. • Southfield, MI

7d • $78,000 - $97,000

About The Position

As a Senior Logistics Engineer at RXO, you’ll use engineering and consulting skills to deliver customer proposals and engineering and consulting projects. You’ll identify cost-saving opportunities through data collection and analysis to improve client supply chain operations. The role involves developing tailored logistics solutions, applying optimization and decision-support tools, modeling transportation networks and costs, and coordinating projects with internal and client stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work or military experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in one or more of the following functional areas: supply chain management, logistics, decision-support systems or technology, transportation management and distribution, or procurement.
• Experience data mining and generating simulations in Microsoft BI, Access, and Excel to identify and scope supply chain opportunities.
• Transportation and network modeling experience.
• Strong knowledge of dedicated transportation services and logistics solutions.
• Experience modeling dedicated transportation networks and optimizing through reduced miles, driver scheduling, and equipment sharing.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, or Industrial Engineering.
• Master’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, or Industrial Engineering.
• Experience with Appian, Supply Chain Guru, ILOG, Any Logistic, or data modeling.
• Experience developing logistics solutions from central warehouses to customers using multiple logistics points and equipment types.
• Experience developing solutions that support Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-in-Sequence (JIS) manufacturing processes.
• Experience with multiple logistics-related systems and transportation management systems.
• Lean Six Sigma experience.
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to deal with complex, urgent situations.
• Aptitude for understanding and solving problems in logistics pricing models.

Responsibilities

• Review RFQs and analyze customer data; partner with prospects to clarify scope and deliver tailored logistics solutions.
• Select and deploy optimization and decision-support tools for operational studies, route optimization, and transportation rate analysis.
• Identify and implement cost-savings initiatives and build supply chain cost models to quantify total cost of ownership and savings.
• Learn customer processes to drive cross-functional initiatives and communicate solution enhancements.
• Coordinate project execution with internal and client stakeholders and deliver transportation-focused process and strategy improvements.

Benefits

• Competitive pay; the role may also be eligible for bonus or commission pay.
• Paid time off, including up to 8 holidays, up to 2 floating Diversity Days, up to 13 days for hourly employees or 15 days for salaried employees, up to 40 hours of bereavement leave, up to 16 hours of volunteer time, jury duty, at least 2 weeks of family bonding leave, and up to 40 hours of prenatal care leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan with up to 5% company match.
• Health, prescription, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life, short- and long-term disability, accidental death and personal loss, business travel, legal services, identity theft, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance.
• Health Savings Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, and Commuter Spending Account.
• Health Reimbursement Arrangement.

What This Job Offers

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