Ford Motor Company

PS&L Industrial Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $72K — $162K *
Livonia, MI 48154In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Master's degree preferred
  • Degree in Engineering or Supply Chain Management preferred
  • Depot operations experience preferred
  • Experience in strategy and planning preferred
  • History of material handling automation implementation preferred
  • Project management experience preferred
  • Experience with AutoCAD preferred
  • Familiarity with SAP, MMP, Excel, and PowerPoint preferred
  • Knowledge of purchasing systems such as Ariba or I-ERP preferred

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with 3rd party vendors and facility management to design and implement solutions.
  • Coordinate with purchasing, finance, manufacturing, and labor affairs departments.
  • Perform internal purchasing tasks to create requisitions and process invoices.
  • Utilize AutoCAD for facility layout design and modification.
  • Identify and recommend improvements for material flow and storage strategies.
  • Leverage SAP EWM and BI data for critical analysis and visualization.
  • Benchmark against leading OEMs and present findings to executive leadership.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave programs
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility support
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases
  • Tuition assistance for professional development
  • Active employee resource groups to foster inclusion
  • Paid time off for community service initiatives
  • Generous holiday schedule including time off between Christmas and New Year
  • Option to purchase additional vacation time.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

In this role, you will be supporting the engineering services team within Parts Supply & Logistics (PS&L) within Ford's Customer Service Division (FCSD). In this role you will be tasked with supporting PS&L's operations network by (1) continuously improving facility layout/design working collaboratively with plant leadership (2) researching best in class operational practices, developing strategies and business cases (3) executing/implementing approved continuous improvement strategies/projects. (4) supporting implementation of advanced technology solutions in an operations environment.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Work collaboratively with 3rd party vendors and facility management to design and install solutions at Ford distribution operations.
  • Work cross functionally with other Ford organizations such as purchasing, finance, manufacturing, and labor affairs.
  • Perform internal purchasing functions to generate requisitions and gain necessary approvals to execute POs, process invoices, and reconcile discrepancies.
  • Utilize AutoCAD to design new layouts or make adjustments to existing facility CAD drawings.
  • Identify deficiencies in existing material flow and storage strategies, provide recommendations based on data supported analysis.
  • Utilize SAP EWM and available BI data to pull critical data sets, performing data visualization to draw key inferences for key PS&L stakeholders.
  • Assist in benchmarking best in world OEMs, generate detailed business cases based on solution recommendations, and convert findings into presentations that can be shared with FCSD executive leadership.
  • Leverage project management skills to hit deadlines, stay within budget, and overcome obstacles in a high paced environment.
  • Candidates should expect to be onsite at a metro Detroit PS&L operations facility 3-4 days per week, with locations varying day to day.
  • Candidates should expect periodic travel to North American PS&L operations facilities and to travel for benchmarking with other OEMs and equipment vendors.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelors degree required


Even better, you may have...
  • Masters degree preferred
  • Engineering/supply chain management degree preferred
  • Depot operations experience preferred
  • Strategy and planning experience preferred
  • History of material handling automation implementation preferred
  • Project management experience preferred
  • AutoCAD experience preferred
  • SAP/MMP/Excel/PowerPoint experience preferred
  • Knowledge of purchasing systems/Ariba/MEARS/PCAM/I-ERP preferred


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, 7 or 8 and ranges from $72,480-$162,120.

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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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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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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