Engineering and Process Improvement Lead Engineer
Catalyst Talent Strategy Consulting
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Regular interaction with Country Operations Management and Customers for the purpose of gathering, validating and documenting operational requirements.
- Conducts systematic in-depth research and analysis into issues of varying complexity.
- Initiates, defines and leads the development and communication of effective reports to key stakeholders, including executive/senior management.
- Facilitate development of new analytics solutions to address existing gaps in analytics tools
- Estimates costs and identify business savings.
- Provides reports, presentations and relevant information to senior management as required.
- Ensures the effective development and use of information or record management systems or reporting practices.
- Ensures team awareness of current processes and procedures, and relevant Company and regulatory requirements, which may impact the operation or department. Takes steps to ensure any changes are implemented.
- Ensures completion of audit and reviews of existing processes or documentation to ensure appropriate standards and rules are applied.
- Manage the identification and facilitate the implementation of process improvement initiatives to ensure minimal disruption of business operations during transition period
- Facilitate development of specific risk mitigation strategies for critical business operations
- Identify issues, risks and benefits of existing and proposed solutions and outline business impacts
- Works collaboratively with operations teams to formulate solutions to operations issues and challenges
- Simplify information and decipher technical jargon so it is easily understood by the whole team.
- Develop and execute logistics improvement projects to support revenue and profitability growth strategy
- Participate and maintain efficiency in the expansion and/or enhancement of logistics services
- Develop products and tools to support country growth strategies
- Plan, develop and implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as measurement tools to achieve customer intensity goals and objectives
- Support the assigned project team by coaching and providing guidance to team members
- Drive innovation ideas, introduce and implement new concepts and technology on existing best practices
- Provide internal and external status reports on time
- Develop and establish customer intelligence database for sales, marketing as well as operations to drive country growth plan through intelligence and analytic approach
- Take lead in customer tender proposal
- Present operation solutions to the customer as a key part of the tender process
- Manage partnerships with key vendors to optimize costing and lead time
- Ensure on-time implementation of the assigned projects
- Manage scope, budget, changes, progress, and risk of the assigned projects
- Support South East Asia sales and marketing activities and assure alignment with country strategies
- Bachelor's degree or above in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical and Production Engineering, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Logistics or related field
- More than 4 years of work experience operations analysis, planning and engineering and/or related consulting work ideally in the logistics, transportation or supply chain industry.
- At least 5 years of working experience in a similar role in the logistics industry, with a focus in operation analysis, planning, warehouse and transport management solutions design
- Excellent project management skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Proven ability to understand and analyse problems and find solutions
- Good analytical and communication skills
- Good command of spoken and written English
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Project Management, PowerPoint, Visio is a plus
- Able to work under pressure / tight deadline as a team, self-motivated, and be able to work independently
- Use of engineering tools Autocad, CAPS, llama soft Supply Chain Guru
- Experience and knowledge in sketch up drawing is preferred
- Good teamwork and technical leadership, creativity, and resourcefulness
- Effective stakeholder engagement, including but not limited to ability to present findings and recommendations to senior leaders and to manage stakeholder meetings.
- Develop and maintain cost estimates, forecasts on cost models successfully
- Improve efficiency by evaluating the use of technologies
- Create models or scenarios to predict the impact of change in solutions design
- Achieve cost saving initiative through engineering approach
- Implement and manage projects within the budget successfully
- Implement continuous improvement program to achieve business retention and acquisition of new business successfully
- Enhance service capabilities and align with country growth plan by new product and service development