Summer Internship - Supply Chain Customer Solutions %26 Projects - Remote/Dallas TX - (Job Number: 2300002W)

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Overview:

The purpose of the position is to support all engineering projects and initiatives coordinated through APLL Innovation and Field engineering team. These engineering projects will be planned and executed within the APLL CLS warehouse network. This intern position works and collaborates closely with operations, IT, vendors, and project management teams. This position will be tasked to support projects aimed to produce higher productivities through the implementation of best practices, new/ upgraded technology and automation, labor management systems, process optimization, and product flow among others engineering initiatives,

Roles & Responsibilities:

Development of flexible, scalable, innovative, and cost-effective engineered solutions for warehouse operations such as Receiving, Put Away, Picking, and Loading.

Material Handling Solutions

Order Fulfilment Solutions

Storage System Solutions

Automated Solutions

Integrated solutions with WMS and WCS systems

Process Improvements

Work directly and collaborate with multifunctional areas: IT, Project Management, Finance, Procurement, and Operations.

Coordinate and executes project activities:

Process Improvement / Lean Projects

Labor Management System deployment/ maintenance

Business Development support

New business onboarding

Technology upgrades

New technology deployment.

Build and maintains engineering models/databases.

Build and maintains facility layout drawings in AutoCAD.

Conduct field observations, gathers data and analyses data:

Work measurement

Process analysis

Product flow analysis

Space analysis

Interviews / Observations

Complete research on market trends: labor, technology and innovation.

Document and publish reports: projects, meetings, studies, observations.

Support business development initiatives.

Key Result Areas:

Assists in the design of engineered solutions, preparation of financial operational models and the coordination of implementation project cost estimation.

Identify opportunities to introduce and deploy best practices and methods that result in a positive improvement on how the operation and/or the customer integrated solution should operate more efficiently.

Assists on the financial estimates and preparation of projects ROI, WACC, ROIC, ROCE.

Assists in the preparation of engineered solution presentations for internal and external audiences.

Supports efforts for Request for Information (RFI) and/ or Request For Proposal (RFP).

Reviews and analyses RFP documents and data provided by customers.

Supports the development of conceptual operational process and layout for a new CLS operations.

Supports multiple projects simultaneously.

Actively participates and supports engineering sessions with MHE technology vendors for the purpose of operational process integration.

Actively participates and supports engineering discovery sessions with internal and customer stakeholders and validates data, volumes, operational requirements and facilitates the definition of solution gaps.

Coordinates and produces final detailed operational layout.

Performs audits while new solution is being deployed to ensure expected productivities are met.

Performs on-site work measurements to validate / audit expected productivities.

Provides integration support with MHE Technology vendor.

Performs acceptance testing for MHE solutions.

Provides timely status reports to SCS Engineer / SCS Manager on the progress of assigned projects via weekly status conference calls and/ or written reports.

Documents and publishes written solution design project status reports on weekly basis.

Participates on operational reviews with functional areas: HR, Procurement, Finance, IT and FIT, Implementations, and Operations

Assists on the preparation of executive summaries for every design project.

Maintains meeting minutes and project correspondence with project stakeholders, project owners, project resources, and project sponsors.

Actively support SCS process improvement initiatives and also evaluates process improvements initiatives generated by the operation teams.

Validates that Job Functions, Operator Profiles, SOPs and Training manuals adhere to new design solution.

Validates that facility set up solution is planned according to new solution design.

Keeps track of his/her project hours and travel expenses and reports them every week in a timely manner to SCS Engineer and/or Manager.

Maintains all project records in share point. Performs periodic back up of project data and records

Maintains local team standard project templates

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Qualifications:

Industrial Engineering major or equivalent.

General knowledge of Supply Chain Industry

General knowledge of 3PL industry.

Training in facility planning and design.

Training in building/ simulating operational models.

Training on conducting work measurements / time studies and building labor standards.

Experience completing AutoCAD projects.

MS Excel proficient.

MS Word proficient.

MS Power Point proficient.

MS Visio beginner.

Power BI beginner.

Tableau beginner.

Effective communicator: verbal and written.

Strong technical and analytical skills.

Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

Customer focused

Requirements:

Ability to work remotely & autonomously.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

The candidate must function in a fast-paced warehouse operations environment and collaborate in the development and deployment of effective engineering solutions.

Works closely in coordination with members of the operations, implementations, and business development teams.

Conducts field observations and analyse data.

Excellent analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills.

While performing the duties of this job the employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, and talk.

While performing the duties of this job the employee frequently is required to stand and walk on warehouse operations floor for extended periods of time, gather data through conversations with others or via observations and measurement.

The employee may be required to travel to other sites to perform same functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. The employee is regularly exposed to ambient lighting and various climate conditions in unconditioned warehouse spaces

Candidates must be within 250 miles of an APL Logistics facility or office.

USA Scottsdale CSC - APLL (0306)
17600 N. Perimeter Drive, Suite # 150
Scottsdale, 85255

The company is committed to and supports equal employment opportunity and affirmative action to all employees and applicants for employment. Equal employment opportunity means equal treatment of employees and applicants without regard to the following legally-protected characteristics: race, color, religion, creed, sex (gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age (40 and over), medical condition, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), veteran status, physical or mental disability status or any other legally-protected status.