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What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.
Job Responsibilities:
B Shift:
Tuesday - Friday
5:00 PM - 5:00 AM
What You'll Do:
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.
Job Responsibilities:
B Shift:
Tuesday - Friday
5:00 PM - 5:00 AM
What You'll Do:
- Continue development and revisions of VSM (Value Stream Map) to identify opportunities for improvement in Material Flow.
- Define and recalculate Kanban sizes for each component between Supermarkets and shop floor as required.
- Monitor performance of Kanban levels and take pro-active actions to solve problems and mitigate risk attributable to these levels and the corresponding assembly cells.
- Interact closely with Production, Engineering and Quality to effectively plan and execute Kanban requirements to support Plant requirements.
- Coordinates and implements effective material handling techniques to assure material availability while achieving defined Kanban levels.
- Cycle counts as required.
- Responsible for shop floor communication systems execution.
- Maintain WMS and Kanban functionality updates in ERP.
- Responsible for mobile equipment in the Plant such as forklifts, tuggers, AMRs, etc.
- Resolve technical issues, supervise, and validate the completion of deployed AMR missions throughout shift
- Present technical AMR mission results and provide recommendations for AMR route delivery optimization
- Approve changes in Kanban levels.
- Conducts material handling and flow analysis; responsible for material flow within the plant, plant layouts, new equipment layout and warehousing requirements.
- Conduct pre-shift meetings to review indicators, open issues and concerns as well as communicate quality alerts.
- Develop Team Members through coaching and mentoring.
- Establish and maintain effective communications with all departments.
- Participate in manpower planning and recruiting.
- Promote accountability through application of the progressive discipline policy.
- Ensure training for Team Members as outlined in the training matrix.
- Conduct accident / incident investigations.
- Control Kanban cycles, coordinate and organize annual inventory counts for assigned area/division as required.
- Responsible for the coordination of all engineering change activities on the shop floor impacting material flow.
- Assure that 5S activities are conducted daily and necessary communication is in place for the handling of special projects or situations.
- Assure that work instructions are available and current for all job positions.
- Act as Hostler Driver performing duties of that role as needed.
- Follows and supports LMV Automotive Systems and Magna's operating principles
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Material Handlers
- Cycle Counters
- Logistics Clerks
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and/or 6 years' experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Thoroughly knowledgeable in Lean Manufacturing, Inventory Management, Kanban, JIT and Logistics manufacturing high volume tangible goods.
- APICS certification desired.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office programs.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong skills in Value Steam Mapping.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Liberty, Missouri |
| Industry | Automotive and Parts Mfg |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1957 |
| Website | http://www.magna.com/ |
About Company
We are a leading global automotive supplier with 347 manufacturing facilities and 94 product development, engineering and sales centres in 27 countries. We have over 159,000 employees focused on delivering superior value to our customers through innovative processes and World Class Manufacturing.
Skills
- APICS Certificationunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Automotive Technologyunmatched
- Chassis Engineeringunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Communication Systemsunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Forkliftunmatched
- Grocery Storesunmatched
- Inventory Cycle Countsunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Just in Time (JIT)unmatched
- Kanbanunmatched
- Lean Manufacturingunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Mobile Plant/Equipmentunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Engineeringunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Technical Presentationunmatched
- Transportation Routingunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
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