Logisticians

Logisticians typically perform the following tasks: • Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity. • Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met. • Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations. • Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates. • Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements. • Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products. • Redesign the movement of goods to maximize value and minimize costs. • Explain proposed solutions to customers, management, or other interested parties through written proposals and oral presentations. • Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources. • Perform managerial duties such as hiring and training employees and overseeing facility needs or requirements. • Collaborate with other departments as necessary to meet customer requirements, to take advantage of sales opportunities or, in the case of shortages, to minimize negative impacts on a business. • Report project plans, progress, and results. • Protect and control proprietary materials. • Stay informed of logistics technology advances and apply appropriate technology to improve logistics processes. • Develop and implement technical project management tools, such as plans, schedules, and responsibility and compliance matrices. • Provide project management services, including the provision and analysis of technical data. • Manage the logistical aspects of product life cycles, including coordination or provisioning of samples, and the minimization of obsolescence. • Perform system lifecycle cost analysis and develop component studies. • Plan, organize, and execute logistics support activities, such as maintenance planning, repair analysis, and test equipment recommendations. • Participate in the assessment and review of design alternatives and design change proposal impacts.