Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, Logistics & Automation

Crane Worldwide Logistics; Dublin; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane Worldwide Logistics is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineering Manager – EMEIA to lead the design and delivery of innovative, cost-effective Contract Logistics solutions. You will oversee warehouse design, automation, and customer proposals while balancing operational and financial objectives.

Collaborate with Commercial, Operations, Finance, IT and customers to develop scalable warehouse and automation solutions that improve productivity, service, and value across multiple countries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain Management or related field.
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in industrial engineering, warehouse design or Contract Logistics.
• Strong 3PL/retail distribution or consumer goods experience.
• Proven capability in warehouse layout design, operational workflows, labour modelling and AutoCAD.
• Experience with WMS, automation technologies, business cases, TCO and ROI analysis.
• Advanced analytical, presentation, project management, commercial and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Visio, SQL, SmartSheet and Access.
• Ability to work across multiple countries, cultures and cross‑functional teams.
• Win rate and quality of engineering‑supported proposals.
• Accuracy and competitiveness of engineering cost models.
• Timely delivery of engineering support and project implementations.
• Productivity, efficiency and ROI improvements delivered across operations.
• Customer satisfaction and engineering team capability growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering design for strategic Contract Logistics opportunities across EMEIA.
• Analyse customer data and develop commercially competitive logistics solutions.
• Design warehouse layouts, workflows, labour models, storage strategies, and material handling solutions.
• Prepare technical content for proposals, presentations, workshops, and customer solution reviews.
• Ensure solutions align with customer requirements, pricing submissions and Crane standards.
• Support RFPs from qualification through contract award with engineered labour and cost inputs.
• Develop AutoCAD layouts, flow diagrams, order analytics, inventory profiles and technical proposals.
• Prepare budgetary estimates for warehouse equipment, automation and technology solutions.
• Evaluate existing operations and identify improvements in productivity, quality, safety, service and cost.
• Optimise layouts, storage capacity, inventory flow, labour utilisation and network performance.
• Implement continuous improvement initiatives using Lean methodologies and engineering best practices.
• Assess automation opportunities and develop business cases, TCO and ROI analyses.
• Recommend warehouse technologies including WMS, conveyors, sortation, AS/RS, AMRs and robotic picking.
• Lead engineering workstreams for new customer implementations and regional projects.
• Develop project plans, timelines, budgets, risks and deliverables across cross‑functional teams.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to quality standards.
• Drive a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and customer focus.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Logistics, or related

Tools

AutoCAD

WMS

Power BI

SQL

Visio

Excel

PowerPoint

SmartSheet

Access

Job description

Crane Worldwide Logistics is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineering Manager – EMEIA to lead the design and delivery of innovative, cost-effective Contract Logistics solutions. You will oversee warehouse design, automation, and customer proposals while balancing operational and financial objectives.

Collaborate with Commercial, Operations, Finance, IT and customers to develop scalable warehouse and automation solutions that improve productivity, service, and value across multiple countries.