Advisor, Process Improvement

Mercedes-Benz USA•Grapevine, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Mercedes-Benz USA is responsible for the sales, marketing and service of all Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States. In our people, you will find tremendous commitment to our corporate values. Our products and employees reflect this dedication. We are looking for diverse top-notch individuals to join the Mercedes-Benz Team and uphold these hallmarks. The PDC Process Improvement Engineer is responsible for providing engineering expertise to the Parts Distribution Centers (PDC) by improving end-to-end material ﬂow, designing systematic layouts, optimizing space utilization and leading continuous improvement initiatives. This role provides analysis to leadership to ensure that operational processes are eﬃcient, cost- eﬀective, and of highest quality to meet customer requirements and strategic objectives. The location of this position resides at the Parts Distribution Center (PDC), but reports into Home Office which requires continuous alignment to all Home Office and PDC expectations around culture, communication and business topics.

Requirements

Must have ability to successfully build relationships, communicate across organizational structure and effectively influence others.
Requires a Bachelor's Degree in: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Must have at least 5-7 years of demonstrated experience in the following:
AutoCAD/Solidworks
Microsoft Oﬃce products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and MS Project)
Understanding of warehouse processes (receiving through shipping), e xternal systems that may interface with the WMS, p eripheral interface devices (RF, printers, etc.)

Nice To Haves

Certiﬁcations (Preferred): Lean or Six Sigma Black Belt (Lean preferred)
Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred

Responsibilities

Leads cross-functional teams tasked with identifying and eliminating ineﬃciencies within layout, process, and material ﬂow to ensure the most cost-eﬀective and quality design.
Designs storage locations to maximize the PDC's available cubic space to reduce labor and material handling costs while utilizing optimal WMS conﬁgurations.
Project manager for all Lean Management initiatives across Home Oﬃce and PDC Network teams including training, sponsoring, facilitating and transitioning of knowledge for others to use and apply to improve end-to-end supply chain ineﬃciencies.
Support Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) initiatives by identifying and resolving non-compliant processes within PDC.
Collaborates with international and domestic leadership to support ad-hoc process improvement and standardization opportunities that ensure the most eﬀective and eﬃcient processes.
Represents the PDC as a liaison for understanding unique site infrastructure, storage system conﬁgurations, and planning for all business unit and IT integration projects.
Develops recommendations for PDC productivity targets by analyzing labor code data and presenting ﬁndings to PDC leadership for approval.
Manages large-scale strategic initiatives across all project planning phases including initiation, planning, execution, and closure that add value to internal and external customers.
Support enterprise-wide initiatives to define the future-state systems landscape and optimization of the physical footprint of the North American logistics network.
Calculates cycle time using work measurement techniques, determines standard work, and communicates the results to leadership to enhance daily labor planning tools.
Evaluates alternative and emerging warehouse technologies and their potential beneﬁts to safety, quality and productivity to the North American PDC Network.
Lead efforts to standardize processes, procedures, and best practices to ensure consistency in operations, documentation, and reporting across the PDC network.
Consistently engage and communicate with PDC leadership to ensure excellent collaboration through common understanding of the operation that enables continuous improvement.