Supply Chain Automation Engineer - Consulting
About Miebach
Miebach Consulting is a global leader in supply chain advisory and engineering. For more than 50 years, we have partnered with organizations worldwide to design, optimize, and transform their supply chains into strategic competitive advantages. Our consulting approach integrates deep operational expertise, advanced analytics, and innovative thinking to deliver measurable business impact.
About the role
Miebach Consulting is seeking a Supply Chain Engineering professional to support the design and delivery of innovative supply chain solutions across North America. This role is ideal for an experienced engineering professional who combines strong technical expertise with client-facing consulting capabilities and is passionate about helping organizations improve their distribution, manufacturing, and logistics operations.
In this role, you will lead and support project workstreams, develop engineering solutions, collaborate with client stakeholders, and contribute throughout the project lifecycle. You will work closely with clients and internal project teams to analyze operations, evaluate technologies, develop facility and process designs, and support the implementation of strategic supply chain initiatives.
This position offers the opportunity to work with leading organizations across industries such as consumer goods, life sciences, retail, fashion and apparel, manufacturing, and logistics while continuing to build expertise in supply chain engineering, automation, and operational transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Supply Chain Engineering and Design
- Lead engineering workstreams for supply chain consulting and implementation projects from project initiation through final recommendation and implementation planning
- Develop warehouse, distribution center, manufacturing, and logistics facility concepts and layouts
- Perform operational assessments, process analysis, capacity evaluations, and future-state design activities
- Develop labor models, throughput calculations, storage strategies, slotting concepts, and material flow analyses
- Evaluate automation technologies including ASRS, AMRs, conveyors, sortation systems, goods-to-person solutions, robotics, and warehouse execution technologies
- Support facility design activities from concept development through implementation planning
- Prepare engineering calculations, technical documentation, design recommendations, and executive-level presentations
- Develop business cases and investment analyses to support operational and automation initiatives
Client Engagement and Project Leadership
- Serve as the primary day-to-day client lead for assigned engineering workstreams
- Build and maintain strong relationships with client stakeholders across operational, managerial, and executive levels
- Facilitate workshops, design reviews, project meetings, and stakeholder discussions
- Translate operational challenges into practical and executable engineering solutions
- Present findings, recommendations, and project updates to client leadership teams
- Manage project scope, schedules, deliverables, and priorities for assigned workstreams
- Identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and proactively address client concerns
- Support successful project delivery while maintaining high levels of client satisfaction
Solution Development and Implementation Support
- Analyze warehouse, distribution, manufacturing, and material flow operations to identify capacity, productivity, and performance improvement opportunities
- Develop facility layouts, material flow concepts, process designs, equipment requirements, and automation solutions
- Evaluate material handling and warehouse automation technologies, including conveyors, sortation, AS/RS, AMRs, AGVs, storage systems, and related technologies
- Support equipment and automation vendor evaluations, solution comparisons, RFPs, and procurement activities
- Perform throughput, capac