What are the responsibilities and job description for the Material Flow & Layout Coordinator position at C-P-S Group?
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The C-P-S Group is an independent, owner-managed medium-sized company with a focus on the automotive industry and plant construction companies. We have successfully been carrying out international projects in the field of factory, production and logistics planning for more than 40 years. Through a clear focus on these technical consulting and services, we have built expertise and methodological know-how that our clients greatly appreciate, also in the context of increased outsourcing of projects.
As a medium-sized company with a flat hierarchy, we remain flexible. This means that when necessary, we make the right decisions quickly and intuitively.
- Project steering, monitoring, and reporting of timeline adherence
- Able to offer planning guidance and project reporting focusing on in-plant logistics processes
- Design transport flows between Tier1 part suppliers, logistics providers, and the OEM
- Leads or participates in all relevant workshops, realization team meetings, and packaging reviews
- Reviews and updates project timelines for implementation and migration activities
- Presents to internal and external customers in weekly meetings the status of projects
- Ensures that IT system interfaces are considered in all phases of implementation
- Participates in logistics process planning, investment planning, and analysis of space requirements
- Ensures in-plant logistics processes and layouts support lean manufacturing processes and are optimized
- Provides to the customer layout planning for logistics spaces, warehouses and connected logistics elements and future plant expansion areas
- Provides to the customer feasibility studies for structures, fixtures, new process, and evaluations based on cost, quality, and reliability
- Provides to the customer analysis to evaluate new process integration into current series processes
- Provides to the customer financial analysis of contracts with logistics services vendor and interacts with them on structure and layout topics
- Ability to escalate issues that do not support plant requirements
- Successfully completed bachelor’s degree in the fields of Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Logistics Engineering, or similar field
- Project management experience
- Experience (3 years min.) in material flow planning, warehouse planning or supermarket planning in the automotive industry
- Knowledge of Lean Methodologies is beneficial
- Technical knowledge about different potential line supply methods and technologies
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel and Visio
- Sound knowledge of AutoCAD
- Knowledge of Microstation is beneficial
- Experience in time studies and MTM is beneficial
- Business fluent in English
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work in an international environment across multiple time zones
- Listens to others and takes a proactive approach to solving problems while maintaining integrity and ethics
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Relocation assistance
- Advancement opportunities
The C-P-S Group is an independent, owner-managed medium-sized company with a focus on the automotive industry and plant construction companies. We have successfully been carrying out international projects in the field of factory, production and logistics planning for more than 40 years. Through a clear focus on these technical consulting and services, we have built expertise and methodological know-how that our clients greatly appreciate, also in the context of increased outsourcing of projects.
As a medium-sized company with a flat hierarchy, we remain flexible. This means that when necessary, we make the right decisions quickly and intuitively.