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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.
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