Material Flow Engineer managing material flow through production and warehousing at Ford. Optimizing processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
Manage the flow of materials through the facility to support production flows within the production and warehousing operations.
Support future and current model studies for ICE and BEV PTO facilities.
Design and optimize material flow processes using Lean principles to improve safety, quality, and cost-efficiency.
Develop plant layouts and space analyses for markets, sequencing, and kitting areas to maximize storage and labor productivity.
Implement industrial engineering systems for capacity forecasting and define in-plant storage/call systems to maintain inventory metrics.
Qualify manual and powered material handling equipment and conduct traffic flow analyses to mitigate congestion and enhance facility safety.
Lead multi-month project lifecycles, including milestone scheduling, resource coordination, and economic evaluations of alternate plans.
Partner with Production, Supply Chain, and Quality teams to document standards, provide technical training, and ensure process adherence.
Administer technical procedures and work instructions while interacting with vendors on administrative and technical matters.
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree
2 or more years of materials experience
Ability to travel up to 50% during launch phases
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (even better)
Experience with successful automation, implementations including AGV/AMR and warehouse automation (even better)
Demonstrated experience working with all levels of the organization (even better)
Experience working collaboratively on teams and driving (even better)
Demonstrated leadership behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills (even better)
Experience working in a manufacturing plant environment (even better)
Tenure working in the automotive industry (even better)
Microsoft Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Outlook/Access) (even better)
Knowledge of AutoCAD (even better)
Validated functional expertise in material flow (even better)
Strong understanding of lean material flow strategies & lean manufacturing processes (even better).
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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