About the role

  • Material Flow Engineer leading material flow strategies for Ford's manufacturing plants. Collaborating with teams to ensure efficient production and supply chain processes.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the flow of materials through the facility to support production flows within the production and warehousing operations
  • Provide engineering support for material flow process; document standards and procedures, provide training, overall adherence and maintenance to ensure materials are available in designated stock, markets and line locations throughout the facility
  • Work with Planning & Inventory Control, Production, Material Handlers, and Supply Chain to ensure robust policies are available and practiced and strive for continuous improvement
  • Apply technical expertise, commensurate with formal training and limited job experience, in the development of material flow processes
  • Design and/or develops material flow processes and equipment
  • Recommend changes to increase safety, reduce costs, improve quality and optimize efficiency
  • Participate in plant layout activities
  • Develop floor space analyses to confirm storage requirements and recommend practical solutions where required
  • Assist in qualifying manual and powered material handling equipment requirements
  • Work to improve material flow and manage materials and inventory consistent with Lean principles
  • Lay out market, sequencing, and kitting areas to facilitate material handling, process flow, space utilization, and labor
  • Define and manages in-plant storage and call systems to maintain inventories; assists to define appropriate goals and metrics for proper material control
  • Provide vehicle and pedestrian flow/congestion/safety analyses and recommend practical solutions where required
  • Interact on a regular basis with other functional groups and vendors on technical and/or administrative matters
  • Work with Production, Production Control, Supply Chain, Quality and other engineering departments
  • Prepare detailed plans, generally spanning several months, vital to complete assigned projects
  • Develop and approves schedule milestones
  • Develop and coordinate labor, facility and equipment requirements for assigned projects
  • Propose alternate plans for economic evaluation
  • Administer technical procedures including process and work procedures
  • Implement an industrial engineering system (standard cost data, capacity and equipment requirement forecasting, shop floor control system)
  • Drive new technology and automation to support the flow of material

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Material Flow Engineering, related degree; or foreign equivalency degree, or a combination of equivalent experience and education.
  • 2 or more years of materials experience
  • Must be willing to travel
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (even better)
  • Demonstrated experience working with all levels of the organization
  • Experience working collaboratively on teams and driving
  • Demonstrated leadership behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills
  • Experience working in a manufacturing plant environment
  • Tenure working in the automotive industry
  • Microsoft Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Outlook/Access)
  • Knowledge of AutoCAD
  • Validated functional expertise in material flow
  • Strong understanding of lean material flow strategies & lean manufacturing processes.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Job title

Material Flow Engineer

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$72,480 - $121,440 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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