Senior Industrial Engineer

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom adidas Full time

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

 

Working as a Senior Industrial Engineer in adidas, you will work alongside a team of engineers to identify and drive improvement opportunities in multiple Distribution Centre’s (DC)  across the adidas network. Industry wide knowledge of manual and automated distribution centers would be a requirement in this role as well as an understanding of current trends within these fields.

The ability to conduct a technical evaluation of the DC with regards to understanding the facility design, material flow, process design, capacities, and constraints. Using this knowledge develop a robust business case to improve efficiency of the DC using established or innovative systems that are available.

The candidate will have a wide understanding of WMS, WCS, WES systems and how they interact and control the material flow within the DC.

Excellent communications skills to enable close collaboration with Distribution Center heads as well as the local onsite Lean Teams.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Serve as an outside consultant to warehouse operations by acting as a change agent for the business
  • Manage and/or conduct feasibility studies of various projects to determine the value of an investment and provide an economic justification for Business Cases.
  • Make recommendations for investment in new technologies and improvement of efficiency within the warehouse workflow, including warehouse decision making capabilities, workplace safety, and customer service standards
  • Evaluate Labour Management systems including implementation, configuration, analysis of results and development of recommendations to the DC heads
  • Responsible for leading MHE work streams in capital projects from conception to final acceptance
  • Responsible for managing or running cost analysis relating to operational, technological, or labour cost.
  • Identify and evaluate problems and develop improvements to processes, layouts, internal flows, utilization, packaging material usage and methods of operation within a warehouse environment, making fact based recommendations to the lean organization.

 

Key Relationships:

  • Internal – Distribution Center management (Inc. Lean Ambassadors) and Global Operations departments.  
  • External - Outside vendors as appropriate

 

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

  • Proven ability to utilize recognized industrial engineering techniques effectively to produce tangible results
  • Broad and deep knowledge of engineering and distribution operations combining theoretical and practical knowledge
  • Contribute significantly to the achievement of department and/or project targets
  • Proven ability to lead teams through direct reporting relationship, but also through matrix relationships
  • Make day to day decisions for the engineering department in a complex business environment
  • Strong ability to identify, evaluate, and develop project solutions and recommendations
  • Strong project management and organization skills
  • Work is independent but requires collaboration across multiple departments
  • Advanced ability to analyze complex processes and drive positive change
  • Labour management experience, ideally with Manhattan based application
  • Focus on development and implementation of standardizing DC processes, MHE (Material Handling Equipment) and supplier harmonization.
  • As part of automated DCs, monitor Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) outputs as required.
  • Strong analytical abilities.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills with an ability to influence across all levels of management
  • Thorough understanding of improvement tools as SIXSIGMA, Kaizen, 5S, time and motion studies
  • Willingness and ability to travel internationally as needed.
  • Strong MS-Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Access, etc.)
  • Fluent in English/German, verbal and written communication

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

  • Undergraduate university degree, with a focus in Industrial Engineering or closely related field or relevant warehousing experiences
  • 5 years engineering work experience, ideally in a distribution center environment
  • 2 years’ management experience required
  • Broad background in Industrial Engineering technology and applications
  • Experience with AutoCAD is desirable
  • Labour Management experience (Base and ELS standards) (MH based)
  • Six Sigma Green belt preferred

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