Logistics Engineers

• Review contractual commitments, customer specifications, or related information to determine logistics or support requirements.
• Propose logistics solutions for customers.
• Direct the work of logistics analysts.
• Evaluate effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
• Provide logistics technology or information for effective and efficient support of product, equipment, or system manufacturing or service.
• Evaluate the use of inventory tracking technology, Web-based warehousing software, or intelligent conveyor systems to maximize plant or distribution center efficiency.
• Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
• Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
• Prepare or validate documentation on automated logistics or maintenance-data reporting or management information systems.
• Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
• Evaluate the use of technologies, such as global positioning systems (GPS), radio-frequency identification (RFID), route navigation software, or satellite linkup systems, to improve transportation efficiency.
• Develop or maintain cost estimates, forecasts, or cost models.
• Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, or material-handling systems.
• Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
• Apply logistics modeling techniques to address issues such as operational process improvement or facility design or layout.
• Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
• Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
• Design comprehensive supply chains that minimize environmental impacts or costs.
• Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Logistics Engineers.

• Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Logistics Engineers.