Director of Automation & Engineering CoE

supply-chain; Westerville (OH); On-site; USD 104,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Prescription

Discounted Stock Purchase

General Bonus Plan

Generous PTO

Job summary

DHL Supply Chain is seeking a Director of Automation and Engineering CoE to manage multi-site automated equipment projects with high complexity. The role oversees equipment plans, software design, testing, and cross-functional communication to ensure on-time delivery.

The position requires extensive leadership, program management, and data analysis capabilities, with frequent travel to sites. A national salary range is provided along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in relevant equipment implementation.
• 5+ years of project management experience.
• 2+ years of managing engineering direct reports.
• 1+ years of financial reporting including capital projects preferred.
• Automated equipment business case development preferred.
• Prior experience implementing automated unit / case handling equipment required.
• Data analysis using excel, access, SQL, power BI required.
• MOST / MTM labor modeling required.
• CAD for equipment layout required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication required.
• Project management required.
• Warehouse control systems (WCS) required.
• Warehouse management systems (WMS) required.
• Leadership and mentoring of a team required.
• Barcoding preferred.
• Great organizational skills required.
• Experience with new distribution center start-ups required.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and expert guidance to operations and solution design teams regarding types of automated equipment, targeted equipment rates, productivity, cost, and layout.
• Provides equipment and process engineering expertise and leadership at new distribution centers where automated material handling equipment from one or more vendors is being implemented.
• Responsible for leading work streams related to the deployment of highly-automated material handling systems.
• Manages the automated equipment vendors to ensure that equipment and software meet the required schedule, functionality, rate, and quality in the as contracted requirements.
• Leads automated equipment testing across multiple project phases.
• Areas of responsibility include: data analysis, business case creation, equipment cost estimating, equipment layout, equipment evaluation, process productivity modeling and estimates, vendor management, project management, equipment punch-listing, warehouse control system software integration and testing, equipment flow control design, equipment functionality and rate testing, operations start up training, query and report development.
• Leads a small team of on-site process and equipment support engineers at each project site.
• Provides leadership and training to these support engineers to grow their talent and expertise at running and supporting the project site equipment.
• Supports the distribution center operations team in learning and optimizing the use of the automated equipment.
• Stays up to date on new distribution equipment technologies and best practices across sectors.
• Develops process and equipment solution options to meet customer requirements, improve productivity, reduce cycle time, decrease cost.
• Operates in matrix environment and is an effective partner with numerous other functional groups to deliver results to the customer.
• Selects and manages use of external vendors and contractors for engineering and maintenance-related projects.
• Maintains key stakeholder alignment through use of strong Project Management and Communication skills
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Training site engineering team to become experts on the installed equipment.
• Develops engineering talent on the automation engineering team

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Data analysis

Communication

Vendor management

Team mentoring

Excel

SQL

Power BI

CAD

Tools

CAD

WCS

WMS

Power BI

Excel

SQL

Access

Job description

DHL Supply Chain is seeking a Director of Automation and Engineering CoE to manage multi-site automated equipment projects with high complexity. The role oversees equipment plans, software design, testing, and cross-functional communication to ensure on-time delivery.

The position requires extensive leadership, program management, and data analysis capabilities, with frequent travel to sites. A national salary range is provided along with comprehensive benefits.