Logistics Engineer — Greenfield Launch & Automation (Onsite)

Caterpillar Inc.; Sanford (NC); On-site; USD 113,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Sanford, North Carolina, is seeking a Logistics Engineer to design and improve material flow, warehousing, line-side delivery, and replenishment for a new advanced manufacturing campus.

You will collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and digital teams to deliver scalable logistics solutions. The role requires strong analytical thinking, cross-functional partnership, and the ability to translate production needs into practical logistics designs with

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience desired.
• Experience designing manufacturing logistics for greenfield facility or major launch.
• Experience with logistics automation and material-handling technologies.
• Lean manufacturing, industrial engineering, data analysis, and flow optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end material-flow processes for receiving, warehousing, kitting, line-side delivery, point-of-use replenishment, packaging, and outbound movement, including critical handoff points to and from production.
• Develop new logistics layouts, flow paths, storage strategies, replenishment models, material-presentation methods, equipment interfaces, and standard work for launch readiness.
• Develop functional requirements, equipment specifications, capacity models, risk assessments, and acceptance criteria for automated logistics systems.
• Evaluate material-handling technologies, connected systems, suppliers, and system integrators; recommend solutions based on safety, process fit, velocity, cost, scalability, and operating requirements.
• Build business cases and implementation plans for logistics equipment, systems, layouts, and process controls, aligning manufacturing, supply chain, facilities, maintenance, and digital partners.
• Lead testing, commissioning, validation, go-live, ramp-up, and handoff to operations and maintenance.
• Use performance data to optimize equipment utilization, throughput, availability, reliability, maintainability, system recovery, and future scalability.
• Own design and implementation challenges through resolution by evaluating alternatives, aligning stakeholders, removing barriers, managing actions to closure, and verifying results.
• Establish and sustain logistics standards, process maps, layouts, work instructions, material-flow analyses, and performance measures.
• Communicate recommendations, decisions, project status, and risks clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Decision making

Logistics management

Automation & manufacturing

Problem solving

Education

Degree or equivalent relevant experience

Tools

Autonomous mobile robots

Automated guided vehicles

Barcode/RFID

ERP integration

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Sanford, North Carolina, is seeking a Logistics Engineer to design and improve material flow, warehousing, line-side delivery, and replenishment for a new advanced manufacturing campus.

You will collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and digital teams to deliver scalable logistics solutions. The role requires strong analytical thinking, cross-functional partnership, and the ability to translate production needs into practical logistics designs with