01 Oct 2026
Closing date TBCAbout the Role
As a Logistics Engineer, you will support a portfolio of Contract Logistics operations across Western and Southern Europe, helping to drive operational excellence, productivity improvements, and successful customer implementations.
Working closely with site leadership, operations teams, solution design, project management, and customers, you will provide engineering expertise across both established and newly launched operations. This includes analysing performance, identifying improvement opportunities, supporting network optimisation initiatives, and ensuring new facilities are implemented and transitioned successfully into stable day-to-day operations.
The role offers a combination of continuous improvement, operational support, and project-based work, with opportunities to contribute to both existing customer operations and new business launches across the region.
* Willingness and ability to travel extensively (approximately 30-60%) across Western and Southern Europe, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, and Turkey, to support operational sites, improvement projects, and new customer implementations.
How You Will Contribute
- Support multiple Contract Logistics sites across Western and Southern Europe with engineering analysis, operational improvements, and performance optimisation initiatives.
- Develop and maintain labour models, capacity plans, productivity calculations, and operational performance reporting.
- Analyse operational data and identify opportunities to improve productivity, service quality, efficiency, and cost performance.
- Partner with site leadership teams to enhance warehouse processes, resource utilisation, space optimisation, and operational workflows.
- Support the implementation of new customer operations, warehouse launches, and expansion projects, ensuring operational readiness and successful transition into business-as-usual operations.
- Assist with warehouse fit-outs, process implementation, testing, commissioning, and launch activities where required.
- Lead or support continuous improvement projects using Lean and structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Monitor key operational metrics and provide recommendations to improve performance and customer outcomes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Operations, IT, Automation, Solution Design, Procurement, and Project Management to deliver operational and strategic initiatives.
- Support standardisation and best-practice sharing across the regional Contract Logistics network.
- Promote a culture of safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
What You Will Bring
- 3-5 years of experience in logistics engineering, warehouse operations, contract logistics, operational excellence, or implementation projects, ideally across multiple industries (Automotive, Chemicals, Industrial)
- Knowledge of labour planning, capacity modelling, productivity analysis, and process improvement methodologies.
- Ability to analyse operational data and translate findings into practical business improvements.
- Experience working with warehouse management systems (WMS), logistics technologies, or operational performance reporting tools.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with data visualisation or reporting tools such as Power BI.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams. A proactive approach to learning, continuous improvement, and professional development, with the ability to adapt to changing business needs.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and willingness to travel extensively across Europe.
Compensation
DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.
About DP World
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.
With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 120,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.
We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.
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