Material Flow Engineer
Ford Motor Company
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- Location
- Dearborn, MI
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 26
- 2 days ago
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About the company
Ford Motor Company
Automotive · 10,001+ employees
What you'll do
- You will work cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineering, Plant MP&L, Production, Supply Chain, Packaging, Industrial Engineering, Ergonomics, Safety, Facilities, Purchasing, suppliers, and equipment integrators to deliver material-flow solutions from early program development through launch and operational handoff.
- Material Flow Engineering converts a program's product and manufacturing assumptions into a safe, efficient, cost-effective, and plant-executable material-flow system, engineering the people, process, equipment, facilities, space, inventory, data, and automation required to move each part from dock to point of fit and successfully transition the system into production.
What you need
- Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, or related field or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Years of experience in manufacturing, material flow, logistics, industrial engineering, supply chain, or related field.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively across manufacturing and engineering organizations and influence without direct authority.
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline.
- Automotive manufacturing or new-model launch experience.
- Experience with Value Stream Mapping, PFEP, AutoCAD, Lean material flow, plant layouts, labor analysis, and material-handling equipment.
- Experience with PMHVs, AGVs, AMRs, ASRS, conveyors, or material-handling automation.
- Experience with material-flow simulation, data analytics, or Power BI.
- Experience developing capital requirements, business cases, or economic evaluations.
- Demonstrated leadership working with cross-functional manufacturing teams.
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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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Material Flow Engineering converts a program's product and manufacturing assumptions into a safe, efficient, cost-effective, and plant-executable material-flow system, engineering the people, process, equipment, facilities, space, inventory, data, and automation required to move each part from dock to point of fit and successfully transition the system into production.