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Junior Solutions Engineer

Road Runner
Downers Grove, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 4/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/18/2025

Job Description Summary :

In this role, you'll get experience across many departments to develop your LTL expertise. The successful candidate will engage cross functionally to discover opportunities and drive top customer service and operational excellence through our smart network. The engineer will help lead change using a process oriented, data driven, and customer focused approach. A successful engineer can understand the big picture, make the right tradeoffs, and has excellent analytical skills. In addition, they excel at thinking creatively and developing collaborative working relationships with business partners, technical experts, and customers. The successful candidate will be results oriented problem solver, effective at working in a team environment, and then communicating results.

Critical Job Functions :

  • Exemplify our guiding principles : We Run Safe, We Run Smart, We Run Together.
  • Utilize data to uncover insights that increase efficiency, reduce mileage, reduce costs, and increase customer service.
  • Apply rigorous logic and proven Engineering principles to achieve the project's objectives.
  • Aggressively search for opportunities to continuously improve operational execution and profitability.
  • Work with stakeholders, users, leadership, and IT to inform and develop tools.
  • Create performance reporting to identify opportunities to control costs and meet operational and service objectives.
  • Identify and remove barriers that slow or prevent the successful attainment of process improvement that will lead to cost reduction and competitive advantage.

Job Requirements :

  • Excel Guru with Access / SQL proficiency.
  • Excellent data navigation, interpretation, and quantitative analysis skills.
  • Recent grad (last 3 years) with bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Data Science or similar.
  • Experience with continuous improvement and process management principals.
  • Demonstrate ability to deal with complexity and communicate effectively.
  • Ability to travel as business needs.
  • Location :

  • Preferred location near Downers Grove, IL or Milwaukee, WI with travel to Roadrunner locations as needed.
  • Physical Demands and Work Environment : The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Physical Demands :
  • Sedentary physical activity performing non- strenuous daily activities of an administrative nature.

  • While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk, stand, reach / handle items, work with the fingers, and talk and hear others in conversations via the phone or in person.
  • Work Environment :
  • The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
  • Compensation :

  • 60,000 to $70,000 per year.
  • Benefits :

  • Paid Holidays
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • 401k
  • Roadrunner Freight is building something special with great people, a winning culture and a differentiated service offering in the marketplace. Join us today to grow your career!

    We will not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters or recruiting agencies. Thank you!"

    Additional Requirements :

    Summary :

    Roadrunner offers more direct long-haul metro-to-metro shipping than any other nationwide Less-than-Truckload (LTL) carrier in the United States. With a nationwide presence, terminals across 40 markets, and approximately $410 million in revenue in 2023, the company's Smart Long Haul Network is the preferred choice for shippers looking to move freight quickly and reliably. Roadrunner is expanding and looking for a highly motivated, tech savvy, data driven, recent graduate Junior Solutions Engineer to join our winning team. If you are results driven and looking for a rapidly growing company with high growth and earnings potential, we want to hear from you!

    Salary : $60,000 - $70,000

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