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Adidas SENIOR INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER 
United States, California, Carlsbad 
116263350

18.08.2024

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.

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, monitorSupervisory 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