Lead Supply Chain Automation Engineer – Design & Implement

Jobless; Fishers (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Miebach Consulting is seeking a Supply Chain Engineering professional to design and deliver innovative supply chain solutions across North America. You will lead engineering workstreams, develop facility layouts, and support automation initiatives for clients across industries.

Key responsibilities include client engagement, project leadership, and developing business cases to enable strategic improvements in distribution, manufacturing, and logistics operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Engineering, Logistics, or related field.
• 5–10 years of experience in supply chain engineering, distribution, material handling, automation, manufacturing, or consulting.
• Experience designing or improving warehouses, distribution centers, or material handling operations.
• Experience evaluating or implementing warehouse automation and material handling solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, client-facing, and project management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and engineering analysis tools.
• Willingness to travel up to 40–60%.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering workstreams for supply chain consulting and implementation projects from project initiation through final recommendation and implementation planning.
• Develop warehouse, distribution center, manufacturing, and logistics facility concepts and layouts.
• Perform operational assessments, process analysis, capacity evaluations, and future-state design activities.
• Develop labor models, throughput calculations, storage strategies, slotting concepts, and material flow analyses.
• Evaluate automation technologies including ASRS, AMRs, conveyors, sortation systems, goods-to-person solutions, robotics, and warehouse execution technologies.
• Support facility design activities from concept development through implementation planning.
• Prepare engineering calculations, technical documentation, design recommendations, and executive-level presentations.
• Develop business cases and investment analyses to support operational and automation initiatives.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day client lead for assigned engineering workstreams.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with client stakeholders across operational, managerial, and executive levels.
• Facilitate workshops, design reviews, project meetings, and stakeholder discussions.
• Translate operational challenges into practical and executable engineering solutions.
• Present findings, recommendations, and project updates to client leadership teams.
• Manage project scope, schedules, deliverables, and priorities for assigned workstreams.
• Identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and proactively address client concerns.
• Support successful project delivery while maintaining high levels of client satisfaction.
• Analyze warehouse, distribution, manufacturing, and material flow operations to identify capacity, productivity, and performance improvement opportunities.
• Develop facility layouts, material flow concepts, process designs, equipment requirements, and automation solutions.
• Evaluate material handling and warehouse automation technologies, including conveyors, sortation, AS/RS, AMRs, AGVs, storage systems, and related technologies.
• Support equipment and automation vendor evaluations, solution comparisons, RFPs, and procurement activities.
• Perform throughput, capacity, labor, and operational analyses to support engineering recommendations.
• Contribute to distribution center design, facility planning, network optimization, transportation, and broader supply chain strategy initiatives.
• Support implementation activities including detailed design reviews, commissioning, testing, operational readiness, and go-live.
• Develop recommendations that balance operational performance, capital investment, flexibility, and long-term scalability.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to Consultants and Analysts.
• Review project deliverables and support quality assurance efforts across engineering engagements.
• Contribute to proposal development, client presentations, and business development initiatives.
• Identify follow‑on opportunities within existing client relationships and support account growth activities.
• Contribute to thought leadership, internal knowledge sharing, and practice development initiatives.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Client-facing

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Engineering, Logistics, or related field

Tools

AutoCAD

AnyLogic

FlexSim

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Miebach Consulting is seeking a Supply Chain Engineering professional to design and deliver innovative supply chain solutions across North America. You will lead engineering workstreams, develop facility layouts, and support automation initiatives for clients across industries.

Key responsibilities include client engagement, project leadership, and developing business cases to enable strategic improvements in distribution, manufacturing, and logistics operations.