Business Optimisation Engineer
Aviation, Travel
Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12 or Equivalent (Essential); B.Eng Industrial Engineering (Essential)
- Honours Industrial Engineering (Advantageous); 2 years' experience in Process Improvement environment (Essential)
- Project Management experience (Advantageous)
- Knowledge of mathematical modelling, simulation modelling and optimization
- Extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problem
- Must be passionate and knowledgeable about continuous improvement
- Interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail
- Results driven
- Able to handle sensitive and confidential information
- Ability to work in a fast moving, dynamic environment
- Problem solving
- Customer centricity
- Communication
- Outcome and results driven. Personal Attributes: Professional
- Integrity
- Ability to work in a team and independently
- Confidence.
Responsibilities
- Act as the intermediary between business and IT & Innovation delivery teams
- Fulfil a cross-functional role by engaging and facilitating effective communication flow between business units
- Provide progress and status reporting to all stakeholders
- Obtain proficiency in operational systems relevant to projects to a level that assists with problem solving & solution design
- Obtain specialised knowledge of areas within the business with an aim to become a subject matter expert
- Leverage available tools & platforms for enhanced solutioning
- Follow the lean project methodology to co-ordinate project activities: Feasibility: Understand the business need & translate this to a cost/benefit analysis to build a business case for solution feasibility
- Initiation: Understand the business need & sufficiently scope projects for stakeholder alignment.
- Planning: Plan project activities & engagement protocols for risk mitigation & enhanced solutioning.
- Execution: Implement the project plan & perform quality control on solutions designed.
- Sufficiently test implemented solutions to reduce errors & incidents.
- Monitoring & Control: Track project progress, manage scope creep, risks & decisions.
- Ensure change management is considered in all solutions.
- Closure: Ensure projects are sufficiently closed with all documentation filed & lessons learnt acknowledged.
- Ensure Change Management is incorporated in all solutions by facilitating Train the Trainers & providing implementation support
- Design processes with the purpose of increasing productivity, eliminating waste, saving time, reducing costs
- Innovate around problems to develop solutions that are smart, scalable, cost-effective & maintainable
- Identify impactful business optimisation opportunities.
