Material Flow Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Livonia • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $72,480 - $121,440 per year
About the role
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
material flowlean principlescapacity forecastingtraffic flow analysisautomationAGVAMRwarehouse automationplant layout designinventory metrics
Soft Skills
leadershipinterpersonal skillsteambuildingcommunicationcollaborationproject managementresource coordinationtechnical trainingprocess adherenceeconomic evaluation
Certifications
Bachelor’s DegreeBachelor’s Degree in Engineering