Manager, Industrial Engineer

at  GROCERY LOGISTICS OF SINGAPORE PTE LTD

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Grocery Logistics Singapore (GLS) a wholly owned subsidiary of FairPrice Group Supply Chain, is a well-established logistics player in the Fast Moving Consumers Goods (FMCG) segment, incorporated since January 1993. Other than being the key logistics provider for NTUC FairPrice and its subsidiaries, we had serviced the Dairy Farm Group, Royal Ahold Group (since exited from Singapore Markets) and many small supermarket chains since our establishment.
DESIGNATION : Manager, Industrial Engineer

QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior knowledge and minimum 8 years of hands-on experience related to warehousing solutions and/or automation design and implementation, industrial engineering and/or supply chain operations management in e-commerce and/or consulting environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Operations Management/Industrial Engineering/ Automation or any other related profession.
• Possess a strong understanding of the end-to-end (E2E) supply chain.
• Experience in product management with the ability to integrate technical solutions into an operational environment to ensure a sustainable solution.
• Ability to manage a few projects simultaneously within tight timeline.
• Prior hands-on experience in modelling/simulation tool is desirable.
• Experience with time studies, methods/work study and/or other performance analysis methodologies.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, analytical mindset and skills, with the ability to convert analysis into business insights for decision making.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage with stakeholders from different hierarchy levels with the ability to drive achievement of objectives.
• Direct people management experience.

JOB PURPOSE

You will be a key member responsible for overseeing the entire supply chain process and ensuring that it is optimized to maximise efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This role will also lead the team to design, implement automated systems to improve warehouse operations efficiency and capacity, as well as, drive related continuous improvement initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyse, improve the process and systems within the supply chain, in a way that fosters collaboration, communication and continuous improvement to optimize the entire supply chain process.
• Design, implement, and/or improve operational processes to integrate automation processes / technology into the operations.
• To articulate practical recommendations for business requirements and demonstrating an ability to address pain points & issues at a high level.
• Engage and partner with key stakeholders and operators on automation projects to ensure successful implementations by understanding stakeholders’ requirements and vendor capabilities.
• Review automation project progress and vendor performance to ensure our automation strategy is well implemented.
• Drives innovation from ideation to realization for process improvements, including definition and deployment of automation/technology roadmaps, budget of project, and developing implementation plans.
• To provide industry insights related to automation trends, challenges & market opportunity, identifying how the company’s products/services may bring value to existing or potential external customers.
• Coach and lead direct report to support and develop automation solutions/projects, provides feedback to enhance skills, knowledge and work performance.