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Logistics Engineers

Design or analyze operational solutions for projects such as transportation optimization, network modeling, process and methods analysis, cost containment, capacity enhancement, routing and shipment optimization, or information management.

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  • Provide logistical facility or capacity planning analyses for distribution or transportation functions.
  • Direct the work of logistics analysts.
  • Prepare or validate documentation on automated logistics or maintenance-data reporting or management information systems.
  • Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
  • Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
  • Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
  • Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
  • Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
  • Propose logistics solutions for customers.
  • Review contractual commitments, customer specifications, or related information to determine logistics or support requirements.
  • Evaluate effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
  • Conduct environmental audits for logistics activities, such as storage, distribution, or transportation.
  • Provide logistics technology or information for effective and efficient support of product, equipment, or system manufacturing or service.
  • Apply logistics modeling techniques to address issues, such as operational process improvement or facility design or layout.
  • Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
  • Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
  • Design plant distribution centers.
  • Assess the environmental impact or energy efficiency of logistics activities, using carbon mitigation software.
  • Evaluate the use of inventory tracking technology, Web-based warehousing software, or intelligent conveyor systems to maximize plant or distribution center efficiency.
  • Determine requirements for compliance with environmental certification standards.
  • Design comprehensive supply chains that minimize environmental impacts or costs.
  • Develop or document reverse logistics management processes to ensure maximal efficiency of product recycling, reuse, or final disposal.
  • Develop or document reverse logistics management processes to ensure maximal efficiency of product recycling, reuse, or final disposal.
  • Develop or document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output resulting from the movement of materials or products.
  • Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
  • Determine feasibility of designing new facilities or modifying existing facilities, based on factors such as cost, available space, schedule, technical requirements, or ergonomics.
  • Develop or maintain cost estimates, forecasts, or cost models.
  • Develop or document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output resulting from the movement of materials or products.
  • Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
  • Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, or material-handling systems.
  • Create models or scenarios to predict the impact of changing circumstances, such as fuel costs, road pricing, energy taxes, or carbon emissions legislation.
  • 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.
  • Review global, national, or regional transportation or logistics reports for ways to improve efficiency or minimize the environmental impact of logistics activities.
  • Determine logistics support requirements, such as facility details, staffing needs, or safety or maintenance plans.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Provide logistical facility or capacity planning analyses for distribution or transportation functions.
  • Direct the work of logistics analysts.
  • Prepare or validate documentation on automated logistics or maintenance-data reporting or management information systems.
  • Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
  • Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
  • Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
  • Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
  • Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
  • Propose logistics solutions for customers.
  • Review contractual commitments, customer specifications, or related information to determine logistics or support requirements.
  • Evaluate effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
  • Conduct environmental audits for logistics activities, such as storage, distribution, or transportation.
  • Provide logistics technology or information for effective and efficient support of product, equipment, or system manufacturing or service.
  • Apply logistics modeling techniques to address issues, such as operational process improvement or facility design or layout.
  • Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
  • Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
  • Design plant distribution centers.
  • Assess the environmental impact or energy efficiency of logistics activities, using carbon mitigation software.
  • Evaluate the use of inventory tracking technology, Web-based warehousing software, or intelligent conveyor systems to maximize plant or distribution center efficiency.
  • Determine requirements for compliance with environmental certification standards.
  • Design comprehensive supply chains that minimize environmental impacts or costs.
  • Develop or document reverse logistics management processes to ensure maximal efficiency of product recycling, reuse, or final disposal.
  • Develop or document reverse logistics management processes to ensure maximal efficiency of product recycling, reuse, or final disposal.
  • Develop or document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output resulting from the movement of materials or products.
  • Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
  • Determine feasibility of designing new facilities or modifying existing facilities, based on factors such as cost, available space, schedule, technical requirements, or ergonomics.
  • Develop or maintain cost estimates, forecasts, or cost models.
  • Develop or document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output resulting from the movement of materials or products.
  • Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
  • Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, or material-handling systems.
  • Create models or scenarios to predict the impact of changing circumstances, such as fuel costs, road pricing, energy taxes, or carbon emissions legislation.
  • 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.
  • Review global, national, or regional transportation or logistics reports for ways to improve efficiency or minimize the environmental impact of logistics activities.
  • Determine logistics support requirements, such as facility details, staffing needs, or safety or maintenance plans.

Skills

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
5
Workplace Documents
4
Graphic Literacy
4

Abilities

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

Knowledge

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $127,490
    $80,020
    $50,900
    Ohio
    US
    $128,550
    $79,400
    $47,990
  • Typical Hourly Wage
  • $61
    $38
    $24
    Ohio
    US
    $62
    $38
    $23

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 9,470
  • Yearly Projected Openings 830

Typical Education

Personality

Conventional: People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Initiative
  • Adaptability/Flexibility

Tools

  • Desktop computers
  • Digital cameras
  • Laser fax machine
  • Laser printers
  • Multimedia projectors
  • Notebook computers
  • Personal computers
  • Special purpose telephones

Technology

  • Analytical or scientific software
  • Business intelligence and data analysis software
  • Cloud-based data access and sharing software
  • Computer aided design CAD software
  • Data base management system software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Development environment software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
  • Object or component oriented development software
  • Office suite software
  • Presentation software
  • Process mapping and design software
  • Project management software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Word processing software
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