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.

On the job, you would:

• Propose logistics solutions for customers.
• Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
• Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.

Education

• bachelor's degree

Engineering and Technology

• product and service development
• design

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Math and Science

• arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Transportation

• movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road

Basic Skills

• reading work related information
• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

People and Technology Systems

• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Conventional

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Integrity
• Dependability
• Initiative
• Adaptability/Flexibility

Verbal

• read and understand what is written
• communicate by speaking

Math

• add, subtract, multiply, or divide
• choose the right type of math to solve a problem

Ideas and Logic

• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
• notice when problems happen