Auburn Hills
Logistics Planner
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.Your Tasks
- Work with other BNA and plant departments to generate the best feasible and competitive concepts in cooperation with quality, product and process design, controlling, manufacturing, plant concept, IT and the facilities / headquarters in consideration of customer specifications
- Identification and implementation of process, layout, and cost optimizations for logistics processes in the planning phase and the current series in close cooperation with plants, central logistics, regions and customer teams
- Ensure product development, planning, evaluation and implementation of holistic and material stream oriented logistics concepts along with entire supply chain including material and information flow to include specific processes of the business unit (e.g. door: MS, seat: multi-level production, drives: cleanliness) is designed with logistics consequences in mind
- Capacity planning: forecast hours to be spent in each program; negotiate and agree with those hours with each customer team manager; follow up with booked hours vs. planned hours and communicate any deviations
Invest and cost planning for new projects: validate and authorize amount needed to launch programs in the most economical way for both customer team or plant cost associated to ensure target costs for entire LO cost (LO1 – LO5) are below 5% of production value - Provide support for the acquisition of new products (e.g. logistics-compatible design, identification of logistics advantages, tailor-made logistics concepts)
Deliver plant support to guarantee smooth logistical ramp ups for new projects - Track key performance indicators that demonstrate any risk to cost and/or timing targets
- Generate executive project status report for two year period beginning with launch
- Participate in continuous improvement of processes and methods used, planning tools, logistics concepts and standards
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s degree from a four year college or university in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or Business Administration.
- 2-3 years experience in the automobile industry or ancillary industry, preferably with experience in JIT/JIS procedures.