Launch Material Flow Coordinator

General Motors•Romulus, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Launch Material Flow Coordinator is a salaried GSC office role that supports plant launch readiness and material flow execution for a major plant uplift. This role works across supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, suppliers, and plant leadership to keep launch milestones, build events, ramp activities, and material readiness on track.

Requirements

Experience supporting supply chain, manufacturing, launch, materials, logistics, or cross-functional program coordination.
Strong project management, organization, follow-up, and timing control skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, solve problems quickly, and escalate risks appropriately in a fast-paced environment.
Working knowledge of material flow, inventory accuracy, storage strategy, and operational readiness in a manufacturing or launch environment.
Ability to work independently and use sound judgment.

Nice To Haves

Experience in global supply chain, materials, planning, launch, manufacturing engineering, logistics, or plant operations.
Experience supporting a new program launch, major product change, or plant uplift.
Familiarity with Launch Wall, OSTS, PFEP, LMS, MGO, material flow planning, and related launch-readiness processes.
Experience with shortage management, storage planning, inventory controls, dock coordination, or supplier readiness.
Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, operations, or a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Coordinate launch readiness for key milestones, trial builds, ramp-up events, and production readiness reviews.
Complete, audit, and report out the GSC Plant Readiness Checklist for major build phases, including PPAP, Validation Builds, and SORP.
Serve as the liaison across planners, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, and plant leadership for launch-related activities.
Lead follow-up from launch meetings, readiness reviews, layout reviews, and shortage discussions, including action tracking and status updates.
Support material flow planning, including storage strategy, packaging, dock strategy, line fill, strategic bank planning, and inventory readiness.
Maintain core system and part data, including MGO reconciliation, PFEP updates, new-part container setup, and tracking of engineering-changed parts.
Coordinate supplier and schedule readiness, including supplier bulletins, release acknowledgment, source warrant support, pilot tags, transit timing, and part availability.
Identify and escalate risks tied to shortages, storage constraints, capacity limits, obsolete material, scrap, supplier constraints, and other launch showstoppers.
Partner with suppliers, LMS, logistics, and internal teams to help ensure material is ordered, routed, received, and available to support launch execution.
Maintain launch tracking tools, material readiness documentation, and clear reporting on open issues, risks, and recovery actions.