Operations Engineer
Shoprite Group of Companies · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
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- The Supply Chain Operations Engineer is responsible for driving operational excellence across Distribution Centre DC operations through process optimisation, data analysis, project management, and technology evaluation.
- The role identifies opportunities to improve efficiency, cost effectiveness, service levels, and operational stability by analysing business needs, developing sustainable solutions, implementing improvement initiatives, and acting as a key link between Operations and IT.
- The successful incumbent will supports strategic decision-making through data-driven insights, business case development and continuous improvement methodologies while ensuring alignment with organisational objectives.
What you'll do
- Researching and implementing supply chain and operational best practices.
- Providing input into operational procedures and processes to ensure DC operations are reliable and stable.
- Investigations into new technologies available in the market for distribution centers.
- Analysis of large data sets and assisting in the development of KPIs and reports for use by various management teams.
Management of site-specific projects through
- The development of project plans
- Compiling supporting documentation
- Implementation monitoring and management, and internal co-ordination with business stakeholders
- Project integration and facilitation of post implementation support.
- Conducting business needs analysis as an input into strategy development.
- Conducting root cause analysis and development of appropriate corrective and preventative solutions to address underlying problems and inefficiencies.
- Development of business cases through cost-benefit analysis and justification of related CAPEX.
- Assisting with business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Assist the Systems department with data analysis and visualisation.
- System front-end settings assessment and continuous improvement.
- Act as an intermediary between DC Operations and IT to translate operational needs into functional requirements.
- Continuous improvement of DC performance through optimisation of operational processes, DC layouts and system setups and the identification of risk and opportunities.
What you bring
- Tertiary Education
- BEng Industrial Engineering Degree.
- Previous experience
- 2 - 5 Years related experience
- FMCG and Distribution Centre exposure.
- Programming experience Advantageous.
Required skills
- Ability to analyse data and business intelligence reporting.
- Process optimisation and continuous Improvement.
- Root cause analysis and problem solving.
- Project management through to implementation.
- Business Case development and cost-benefit analysis.
- Advanced Excel, Power BI and Data Visualisation.
- Exposure to Systems analysis and requirements cathering.
- Stakeholder Management and Cross-functional collaboration.
Closing Date
- 2026/10/28