# MP&L Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,240-$261,720
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As part of Ford's Manufacturing team, you'll help build state-of-the-art smart vehicles.

The MP&L Manager will have MP&L functional knowledge, including new model launch planning, change control, bill of material, parts follow-up, shop floor scheduling, inventory planning, cycle checking, distribution, logistics, material handling, packaging, and industrial material to support plant manufacturing processes.

## Responsibilities

- Provides high-level management of MP&L floor operations and Production Control department

- Coach and counsel lean manufacturing behaviors and instill discipline in MP&L processes

- Meet material handling guidelines and regulations

- Review and evaluate future plans for expansion and/or modification of the plant's MP&L equipment, resources, and/or future facilities

- Ensure proper salaried headcount and manpower is in place to support business needs

- Develop department objectives, Master Schedule, Implementation Roadmaps

- Participate on plant's senior leadership Operating Committee

- Participate with Supply Chain Management, scheduling, customers, and plant when there are production critical supply issues

- Assure Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People, Maintenance, Environment objectives and operating systems implementation

- Prioritize key issues and allocate resources accordingly

- Assure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), vehicle safety, ergonomics, housekeeping practices are being planned and adhered to

- Represent MP&L employees in local personnel development committee and ensure there is a developmental plan for MP&L employees

- Coach and counsel salaried employees as required

- Develop action plans to improve morale within the department

- Reports to the Plant Manager

- Supervises two management-level direct reports

## Qualifications

- High school Degree or GED

- 10+ years progressive manufacturing and/or material handling experience

- Experience with high-level management of facility-wide material handling initiatives

- Experience supervising salaried employees, including managers

- Strong ability to interface with plant hourly personnel, salaried personnel, plant management, staff operations, logistics carriers, and production suppliers

- Strong analytical skills and quick decision making capability

- Ability to work well under pressure and manage high-pressure situations when necessary

- Proficient in computer applications (MS Office Suite)

- Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate leadership in 'One FORD' behaviors

## 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

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

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## Skills

### Required
- Material Handling
- Logistics
- Supply Chain Management
- Lean Manufacturing
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree in Material Handling, Logistics, Supply Chain Management or Packing Engineering
- Experience in scheduling, distribution, supply chain, inventory planning, bill of material, change control, new model launch, logistics, material handling line feed processes, nonproduction stores, material flow, FCSD, production and material management systems

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