Job DescriptionIn this position...
Material Control and Supplier Manufacturing Readiness ensures suppliers are fully prepared to meet the BlueOval Battery Michigan Pack plant's material demands by coordinating end-to-end material planning and logistics from supply base to production. This includes managing inventory accuracy, monitoring material flow, ensuring on-time delivery, and maintaining compliance with safety, transportation, and quality standards. The role collaborates closely with suppliers, production, and warehouse teams to resolve shortages, optimize inventory, support production forecasting, and drive continuous improvement in material handling and logistics processes, while providing clear status reporting and enabling effective cross functional communication.
ResponsibilitiesWhat you'll do...
- Launch suppliers with material planning and logistics readiness to support BlueOval Battery Michigan Pack plant demand
- Coordinate end-to-end material flow from suppliers to plant, ensuring on-time delivery
- Monitor material movement, inventory levels, and system accuracy
- Collaborate cross-functionally (suppliers, production, warehouse) to ensure smooth operations
- Ensure compliance with safety, transportation, and quality standards
- Identify and resolve material shortages, delays, and discrepancies
- Maintain accurate records and provide regular status reporting to leadership
- Support production planning with material forecasting and alignment to schedules
- Optimize inventory levels and material usage to reduce cost and waste
- Drive continuous improvement in material handling and logistics processes
- Manage communication across procurement, logistics, and manufacturing teams
- Evaluate and coordinate with 3PL providers for efficient transportation solutions
- Candidates must possess full flexibility and a readiness to consistently work across all established standard, operating, and rotational shift schedules, encompassing day, night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
QualificationsYou'll have...
- 5+ years experience in material control, logistics, or supply chain (3+ years, preferably in manufacturing) and supplier management
- 5+ years experience inventory management systems, ERP tools (e.g., SAP/Oracle), and Microsoft Office
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, or equivalent.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and adapt in a fast-paced environment
Even better, you may have...
- Continuous improvement background (Lean Six Sigma or similar)
- Leadership potential to guide teams or manage external partners
- Familiarity with global logistics and transportation regulations, import and export operations
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• 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.
This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
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