# Industrial Engineer, Material Flow and Logistics Operations **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $72,480 - $162,120 **Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72983?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_287a6b33-cf5 ## Description This position applies lean principles, Gemba, value-stream mapping, industrial engineering methods, simulation, data analytics, and process standardization to identify and implement sustainable operational improvements at Ford Motor Company. The successful candidate will help build a lean, efficient, and optimized supply chain from the supplier through the point of fit. ## Responsibilities ### Operational Improvement - Conduct Gemba studies and current-state assessments across manufacturing and material-flow operations. - Develop value-stream maps to identify bottlenecks, waste, congestion, capacity constraints, and non-value-added activities. - Analyze labor requirements, work content, utilization, throughput, and operational capacity. - Develop and standardize labor methods using recognized industrial engineering and work-measurement practices. - Support process simulation and scenario analysis to identify labor, material-flow, and capacity opportunities. - Lead Kaizen and continuous-improvement activities that improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity. - Establish repeatable operating standards and support the deployment of best practices across multiple sites. ### Material Flow and Supply Chain Optimization - Analyze end-to-end material flow from supplier locations through warehouses, off-dock facilities, manufacturing plants, and the point of fit. - Identify opportunities to reduce handling, travel distance, congestion, inventory, and other non-value-added activity. - Improve material presentation, storage, routing, replenishment, dock operations, and point-of-fit delivery processes. - Support material-cost and operational-efficiency studies at Tier 1 supplier locations. - Work with Supplier Technical Assistance and other stakeholders to assess and improve supplier material-flow operations. ### Launch and Forward-Model Support - Support MP&L requirements development and labor analysis for forward-model and manufacturing launch programs. - Participate in launch-readiness reviews and identify material-flow, labor, capacity, process, and infrastructure risks. - Support supplier audits, launch reviews, and post-Job 1 operational stabilization activities. ### Data, Digital Tools, and Automation - Use data and analytics to identify operational trends, constraints, and improvement opportunities. - Develop dashboards and performance measures that track productivity, utilization, throughput, labor efficiency, and improvement implementation. - Apply Power BI and other analytical tools to enable fact-based operational decisions. - Support the development and enhancement of agentic, AI-enabled, or automation solutions for opportunity identification and efficiency analysis. - Translate complex operational data into clear recommendations for plant and functional leadership. ### Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner with MP&L, Manufacturing, Plant Industrial Engineering, Purchasing, Supplier Technical Assistance, Finance, Launch, FPS, IT, and supplier teams. - Facilitate cross-functional workshops to align on current-state conditions, improvement opportunities, ownership, and implementation plans. - Communicate findings, risks, savings opportunities, and recommendations to leadership and operating teams. - Build strong working relationships across plants, suppliers, and third-party facilities. ## Qualifications ### Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering. - 4+ years of experience applying industrial engineering methods in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, material handling, or supply-chain operations. - 2+ years of experience with discrete-event simulation or material-flow simulation tools. - Proficiency in Power BI, Excel, SQL, Python, Alteryx, or similar data and automation tools. - Working knowledge of: - Lean manufacturing - Gemba - Value-stream mapping - Standardized work - Labor and productivity analysis - Capacity and throughput analysis - Process optimization - Root-cause problem solving. - Ability to analyze operational data and convert findings into practical improvement actions. ### Preferred Qualifications - Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or Operations Research. - Experience conducting work-measurement studies using MODAPTS, MOST, or comparable predetermined-motion-time systems. - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, or comparable lean certification. - Experience developing dashboards, analytical models, automated workflows, or AI-enabled operational tools. - Experience supporting Tier 1 supplier assessments or operational improvement activities. ## Benefits - 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. ## Salary Information - Salary grade 6: $72,480 - $121,440. - Salary grade 7: $84,480 - $141,360. - Salary grade 8: $96,720 - $162,120. ## Skills ### Required - Industrial Engineering - Manufacturing Engineering - Lean manufacturing - Gemba - Value-stream mapping - Standardized work - Labor and productivity analysis - Capacity and throughput analysis - Process optimization - Root-cause problem solving - Power BI - Excel - SQL - Python - Alteryx ### Nice to have - MODAPTS - MOST - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - Black Belt - Dashboards - Analytical models - Automated workflows - AI-enabled operational tools --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72983?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)