Logistics Coordinator III - Auto Development Center
About The Position
The Logistics Coordinator supports shipping and logistics activities for New Model project parts, white bodies, and complete vehicles across manufacturing, quality, production, and suppliers. The role helps achieve on-time delivery targets for internal and external customers, including Honda’s Japan organization, which are critical to successful New Model launches. Working with the Logistics Sr. Specialist and New Model Engineering Project Manager, the coordinator supports shipment planning and execution, transportation coordination, export and import documentation, trial-event unit requests and parts control, and tracking and resolution of logistics issues. The position is hybrid and includes desk work and frequent keyboarding, with occasional physical activities and moderate lifting or pushing. Travel, overtime, and occasional weekend or nonstandard-hour work may be required based on project demands.
Requirements
- High school diploma, community college degree, or equivalent work experience.
- Two to four years of additional related experience may be substituted for a degree, or combined with education.
- Microsoft Office skills.
- Communication skills, including public speaking and presentations.
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to travel as needed, including possible international or overseas travel.
- Ability to perform occasional standing, bending, reaching, squatting, walking, pushing, and lifting; moderate physical effort, including lifting or pushing 25–50 pounds.
- Ability to work overtime based on project demands; work may include weekends, early mornings, or late evenings.
Nice To Haves
- Project management qualifications are optional.
Responsibilities
- Support the Logistics Sr. Specialist with shipping white bodies, prototype units, and production parts from New Model trial events.
- Support coordination of domestic and international transportation by truck, air, ocean, and rail.
- Prepare required export and import documentation and fulfill hazardous-material requirements for review and validation by the Sr. Specialist.
- Under the Sr. Specialist’s direction, check design-change levels with engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, and program teams, and align them with logistics build schedules.
- Physically prepare vehicles for handover to the courier according to established requirements.
- Support the New Model Engineering Project Manager in managing Trial Event Unit Requests for Sales Engineering and Design requirements.
- Support solicitation, maintenance, and communication of total Sales Engineering and Design unit requirements; negotiate changes or updates as needed.
- Issue production instructions created by the New Model Engineering Project Manager to direct the ordering, production, and fabrication of parts needed for New Model trial-event units.
- Support identification, tracking, control, and resolution of critical trial-event concerns or known issues, and report them to the team during the event.
- Support the project team with New Model trial-event parts control and New Model receiving standards.
- Coordinate with each problem Person in Charge to manage shipping and logistics problem-item documentation, responsibility, and closure in support of project targets.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary based on factors including geographic location and work experience.
- Paid overtime.
- Regional bonus when applicable.
- Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefit plans.
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and shutdown.
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability.
- 401(k) plan with company match and additional contribution.
- Relocation assistance, if eligible.
- Advancement opportunities and career mobility.
- Education reimbursement for continued learning.
- Training and development programs.
- Tuition assistance and student loan repayment.
- Lifestyle account.
- Childcare reimbursement account.
- Elder care support.
- Wellbeing program.
- Community service and engagement programs.
- Product programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
