Automation Expert # 26-26690
Detriot, MIContract$70–78/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
US Tech Solutions seeks an automotive material handling automation and intralogistics subject matter expert to evaluate automation, storage strategy, material flow, and warehouse or line-of-consumption capacity in an automotive manufacturing environment. The role develops practical recommendations for technologies, storage systems, replenishment, and inventory placement while layouts, PFEP data, and operating assumptions evolve.
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Full job description
$70-$78 per hour
Detriot, MI
Contract
Duration: 2 months contract to hire
Description Of Services:
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Automotive Material Handling Automation & Intralogistics SME
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Objective
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Support evaluation of material handling automation, storage strategy, material flow, and warehouse/LOC capacity within an automotive manufacturing environment. The SME will develop practical recommendations regarding AMRs, AGVs, AFTs, ASRS, storage systems, replenishment strategies, and inventory placement under conditions where layouts, PFEP data, and operating assumptions are still evolving.
Responsibilities
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Recommend appropriate material handling technologies, including:
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AMRs
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AGVs
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Autonomous Fork Trucks (AFTs)
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ASRS
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Goods-to-Person Systems
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Automated Conveyance Systems
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Define fleet sizing, storage-density assumptions, throughput assumptions and operating constraints.
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Develop alternative automation concepts and compare operational tradeoffs.
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Recommend physical equipment configurations suitable for simulation and Digital Twin scenario analysis.
Must-Have Experience
10+ years in:
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Automotive logistics
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In-plant logistics
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Material handling equipment automation
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ASRS design or evaluation
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AMR / AGV deployment projects
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Industrial engineering
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Experience leading or supporting selection, evaluation, sizing or deployment of material handling automation systems.
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Experience comparing alternative automation approaches based on throughput, storage requirements, labor, utilization, and ROI.
Experience with:
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Material handling system selection and evaluation
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Automotive supplier parks, sequencing centers, or 3PL operations
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Comfortable working with incomplete or evolving planning inputs and building defensible recommendations from assumptions.
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Preferred Experience
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ASRS design or evaluation
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AMR / AGV deployment projects
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Warehouse automation business-case development
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Highly automated manufacturing or distribution environments
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Simulation, modeling, or Digital Twin support initiatives
Custom Skill Requirements:
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Automotive logistics
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In-plant logistics
Qualifying Questions:
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Do you have experience leading or supporting selection, evaluation, sizing or deployment of material handling automation systems?
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Do you have experience comparing alternative automation approaches based on throughput, storage requirements, labor, utilization, and ROI?
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com .
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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How this job compares
Set against the 454 open Logistics Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$70–78/hr
- US median$22–24/hr179 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $74/hr, is 227% above the US median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the top quarter of Logistics Specialist hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 18 open Logistics Specialist jobs in Michigan and 454 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- TireHub LLC50 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Logistics Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 382 postings).
- Education
- 46 of the 454 open Logistics Specialist jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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