Job Description:
For over 70 years, Fortna® has partnered with the world’s top brands to transform their distribution operations into a competitive advantage. Fortna helps clients make and keep bold promises to their customers – fast, accurate and cost-effective fulfillment consistently at every touchpoint, across every channel. Fortna's expertise spans distribution strategy, distribution centre operations, material handling automation, supply chain systems and warehouse execution software systems. We built our firm on a promise – we develop a solid business case for change and hold ourselves accountable for results.
Fortna UK is going through an exciting period of growth and looking to expand its team with enthusiastic, career-driven and motivated individuals. As the successful candidate, you will receive significant support and mentoring to ensure a successful transition into the Fortna team, where you will be surrounded by collaborative and like-minded individuals who will support your development as you build your career with the business.
The Project Engineer (PE) will lead design work of distribution center operations and material handling systems with Fortna’s Clients in conjunction with Fortna’s Operations Design team. This Engineering role is accountable to the quality and feasibility of design, ensuring operational and business requirements are met. The PE is expected to work under the guidance of a Solution Architect during Operation Design concept development and serve as the Engineering lead during Integrated Detail Design (IDD) and Implementation phases of projects.
A selection of primary responsibilities:
- Supporting the Fortna design team on distribution operations design efforts including:
- Concept design to support hypothesis;
- Refining the design to validate, or invalidate the hypothesis;
- Development of a solution that meets all business and operational requirements;
- Capital budget estimation of solution
- Supporting tools development, continuous improvement and use, such as Fortna DCconceptor™, DCdesigner®
- Leading Engineering project team resources (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Controls Engineering) during Integrated Detail Design and Implementation project phases.
- Leading final engineering efforts and engineering weekly meeting, publishing weekly engineering status reports (consolidated from electrical engineering, design engineering, technical services), tracking engineering schedule and budgets, and resource planning (report to engineering directors).
This role offers the successful candidate an exciting opportunity to develop and hone the following skills in project based activities and deliverables:
- Leading, developing and supporting material handling designs in AutoCad and Fortna DCconceptor™, DCdesigner®.
- Leading the development of Request for Proposal and requirement documentation for MHE Supplier scope (including high technology elements of a design, such as automated storage and retrieval systems).
- Supporting Electrical Controls Engineering development of technical aspects of description of operations, such as the machine control specification documentation.
- Overseeing and ensuring the quality and accuracy of common inputs to the Estimation department including: FortnaDCconceptor™ drawing and budget outputs, budgetary quotes from suppliers for subsystems.
- Leading project team resources developing Mechanical and Electrical Controls Engineering deliverables during IDD and Implementation project phases:
- Equipment RFP development and evaluation
- Equipment supplier selection processes
- Supplier approval drawing process
- Internal and Client design review meetings (equipment speed, rate, control)
- Mechanical installation drawings
- Electrical fabrication and installation drawings
