In this position...
You will manage the flow of materials through the facility to support production flows within the production and warehousing operations.
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
- 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)
Qualifications
You'll have...
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 2 or more years’ of materials experience
Even better, you may have...
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
- 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
