Operations Engineer at Shoprite Group of Companies

About the role    

• The Supply Chain Operations Engineer is responsible for driving operational excellence across Distribution Centre (DC) operations through process optimisation, data analysis, project management, and technology evaluation.
• The role identifies opportunities to improve efficiency, cost effectiveness, service levels, and operational stability by analysing business needs, developing sustainable solutions, implementing improvement initiatives, and acting as a key link between Operations and IT.
• The successful incumbent will supports strategic decision-making through data-driven insights, business case development and continuous improvement methodologies while ensuring alignment with organisational objectives.

What you'll do    

• Researching and implementing supply chain and operational best practices.
• Providing input into operational procedures and processes to ensure DC operations are reliable and stable.
• Investigations into new technologies available in the market for distribution centers.
• Analysis of large data sets and assisting in the development of KPIs and reports for use by various management teams.

Management of site-specific projects through:

• The development of project plans
• Compiling supporting documentation
• Implementation monitoring and management, and internal co-ordination with business stakeholders
• Project integration and facilitation of post implementation support.
• Conducting business needs analysis as an input into strategy development.
• Conducting root cause analysis and development of appropriate corrective and preventative solutions to address underlying problems and inefficiencies.
• Development of business cases through cost-benefit analysis and justification of related CAPEX.
• Assisting with business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Assist the Systems department with data analysis and visualisation.
• System front-end settings assessment and continuous improvement.
• Act as an intermediary between DC Operations and IT to translate operational needs into functional requirements.
• Continuous improvement of DC performance through optimisation of operational processes, DC layouts and system setups and the identification of risk and opportunities.

What you bring    

• Tertiary Education 
• BEng Industrial Engineering Degree. 
• Previous experience 
• 2 - 5 Years related experience 
• FMCG and Distribution Centre exposure. 
• Programming experience (Advantageous). 

Required skills

• Ability to analyse data and business intelligence reporting.
• Process optimisation and continuous Improvement.
• Root cause analysis and problem solving.
• Project management through to implementation.
• Business Case development and cost-benefit analysis.
• Advanced Excel, Power BI and Data Visualisation.
• Exposure to Systems analysis and requirements cathering.
• Stakeholder Management and Cross-functional collaboration.

Closing Date    

• 2026/10/28