Ford Motor Company

Production Control Coordinator

Ford Motor Company$72K — $141K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • 1+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Business, Engineering, or related field preferred
  • Experience with ERP systems and data analytics tools
  • Strong analytical skills and decision-making ability
  • Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Ability to interact effectively with plant and logistics personnel

Responsibilities

  • Produce daily and weekly production schedules for various assembly types
  • Utilize CMMS to schedule and communicate production status
  • Follow up on shipments and distributions
  • Support balance outs and changes for customers
  • Track shipping status and manage parts follow-up
  • Coordinate logistics with suppliers and warehouses
  • Verify and correct production counts and shipping transactions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and prescription coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave options
  • Family building benefits, including fertility treatment support
  • Employee vehicle discount and management lease options
  • Tuition assistance program
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service
  • Generous holiday schedule including a week off between Christmas and New Year’s
  • Option to purchase additional vacation days
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

In this role you will produce the daily and weekly production schedules for final, sub-assembly and machining (Volume/Mix/Sequence) and utilize the Common Material Management System (CMMS) Inventory Management System to schedule assembly lines and to communicate to customers

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Produce the daily and weekly production schedules for final, sub-assembly and machining (Volume/Mix/Sequence)
  • Utilize the Common Material Management System (CMMS) Inventory Management System to schedule assembly lines and to communicate to customers Sterling shipping intentions
  • Follow up on VO 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 local suppliers / warehouses
  • Correct shipping transactions and monitor/validate production counts and scrap transactions
  • Provide MP&L 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 salaried personnel as required


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • 1+ years' experience working in a manufacturing environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Material Planning and Logistics, Business, Engineering, Manufacturing or Packaging
  • Proven track record of successfully interacting with plant hourly and salaried personnel, logistic carriers, and production suppliers
  • Experience working in a manufacturing environment
  • One or more years' experience with MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint)
  • Prior experience utilizing ERP systems
  • Prior experience with data analytics tools preferred
  • Strong analytical skills and quick decision-making capability
  • Validated ability to work independently with limited supervision
  • Experience in Material Planning and Logistics experience desired
  • Self-starter, with a history of working under tight deadlines


Even better, you may have...

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
  • 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 6 and ranges from $72,480-121,440.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $84,480-141,360.

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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Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
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$127.1 billion
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