Ford Motor Company

Plant Material Flow Analyst

Ford Motor Company • $72K — $141K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Reposted 1 week ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma / GED
  • 2 years automotive manufacturing/stamping experience
  • Experience with CMMS and production scheduling
  • Strong organizational and communication skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Knowledge of Bill of Materials interpretation
  • Experience with inventory process flow and cycle verification

Responsibilities

  • Produce daily and weekly production schedules for various lines
  • Utilize CMMS for scheduling and communication with plant management
  • Follow up on customer shipments and distributions
  • Track daily shipping status and production support
  • Coordinate shipments with suppliers and warehouses
  • Monitor shipping transactions and validate production counts
  • Assist in managing bailment activities as needed

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care options and parental leave programs
  • Family building benefits like adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups and community service paid time off
Full Job Description
Job Description

Plant Material Flow Analyst

In this position...
The material control position is responsible for production schedules, product shipments and point of contact for all customer assembly plants.

The ideal candidate would need to be:
  • Resilient
  • Detail oriented
  • Ambitious
  • Demonstrate high integrity


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Produce the daily and weekly production schedules for press lines, chemical treat, ink, heat treat and sub-assemblies (Volume/Mix/Sequence)
  • Utilize the Common Material Management System (CMMS) Inventory Management System to schedule all lines and to communicate to plant management Production and shipping intentions
  • Follow up on customer shipments and distributions daily
  • Support final balance outs and running changes to customers
  • Track daily shipping status, daily parts follow-up and min/max reporting to support production schedule
  • Coordinate shipments to and from all suppliers / warehouses
  • Correct shipping transactions and monitor/validate production counts and scrap transactions
  • Provide MP&L and production team with daily line-ups
  • Perform cycle count analysis and control CMMS cycle entry
  • Coordinate special counts to assure actual physical inventory balances match inventory records
  • Assist with plant cycle schedule and count confirmation
  • Respond to VO/PTO schedule changes, react to quality, shipping, and schedule changes
  • Assist in managing bailment activities as the need arises
  • Assist in backing up MP&L management personnel as required
  • Work in an off shift environment - afternoon shift with weekends as need

Scheduling
  • Ability to schedule multiple press lines.
  • Ability to schedule chemical, ink and heat treat lines.
  • Ability to schedule multiple assembly lines.
  • Attend daily production meetings and advise management on production schedules.
  • Involved with daily truck and rail car load plans.

Distribution.
  • Advanced knowledge of customer shipping plan.
  • Develop JIT window shipping times.
  • Develop and maintain customer product releases.
  • Experience with product billing and transaction resolution.

Inventory verification
  • Knowledge of cycle process, inventory performance and data.
  • Negative balance reconciliation.
  • Engineering change administration.
  • Supplier and customer release integration.
  • Production resource actions.
  • Set up material processing orders.
  • Bailment and consignment knowledge.

Metal / Aluminum Analyst
  • Raw Material Ordering
  • Raw Material Receiving
  • Raw Material Scheduling
  • Aluminum scrap processing


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • High School Diploma / GED
  • 2 years automotive manufacturing / stamping experience.
  • CMMS experience.
  • Experience in production scheduling and distribution.
  • Strong communication and ability to work with production teams.
  • Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook etc.
  • Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills.
  • Knowledge of Bill of Material interpretation.
  • Experience with inventory process flow.
  • Experience with Cycles and Inventory Verification Program.


Required Behaviors
  • Outstanding, interpersonal teambuilding and communication skills.
  • Values different opinions & is open to ideas & perspectives from others.
  • Highly committed to continuous improvement, while applying innovative solutions with a customer first mindset
  • Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism in difficult and stressful situations.


Even better, you may have...
  • Ford Stamping Experience.
  • Advanced CMMS experience.
  • Exceptional in production scheduling and distribution.
  • Advanced in Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook etc.
  • Strong knowledge of Bill of Material interpretation.
  • Strong experience with inventory process flow.
  • Strong experience with Cycles and Inventory Verification Program.


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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • 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

This position is a salary grade 6-7 - from $72,480 -$141,360

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcare

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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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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