Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (PASA) is seeking a Warehouse Solutions Engineering Manager to optimize warehouse operations, including material flow, storage capacity, productivity, and safety, while ensuring quality compliance and supporting business growth through scalable warehouse solutions.
Requirements
- Proven experience with warehouse design, layout optimization, and automation technology.
- Experience with warehouse systems including WMS, WES, LMS, PLC controls, IoT sensors, and Industrial 4.0 solutions.
- Experience with simulation modeling to support data-driven engineering decisions.
- Experience with Lean principles and waste elimination.
- Experience with Kaizen events, VSM workshops, time and motion analysis, and layout re-engineering.
- Experience with engineered labor standards and process optimization.
- Experience with Six Sigma Green/Black Belt (Preferred)
Responsibilities
- Lead warehouse layout design, storage optimization, slotting engineering, dock configuration, and flow optimization.
- Design and implement warehouse automation solutions including conveyors, sortation, AGVs/AMRs, AS/RS, shuttle systems, robotic picking, and goods-to-person technology.
- Evaluate warehouse capacity, throughput analysis, time studies, and simulation modeling to support data-driven engineering decisions.
- Develop technical specifications, equipment requirements, and engineering standards for warehouse infrastructure.
- Analyze and optimize material staging, rack configuration, palletization, ergonomics, and material presentation.
- Support integration of warehouse systems including WMS, WES, LMS, PLC controls, IoT sensors, and Industrial 4.0 solutions.
- Collaborate with IT and SAP teams to align system logic with physical process flows. And to implement automation dashboards, process monitoring, and real-time warehouse analytics.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Logistics, or related technical field required
- Master’s degree in engineering, Operations, or Business preferred.
- Bilingual English Primary and Spanish
- 7–12 years of experience in warehouse en
- Minimum 3 years leading engineering or technical teams