Material Flow Engineer

Polaris Inc. • Huntsville, AL

2d

About The Position

At Polaris Inc., we have fun doing what we love by driving change and innovation. We empower employees to take on challenging assignments and roles with an elevated level of responsibility in our agile working environment. Our people make us who we are, and we create incredible products and experiences that empower us to THINK OUTSIDE. The material flow engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the flow of parts within the factory. This includes determining quantity of parts needed at the operation and method of delivery using lean manufacturing principles. The BOM, demand requirements, and engineering and model year changes must be considered. The material flow engineer will own the Plan For Every Part (PFEP) database and must be able to work effectively with other groups such as manufacturing and packaging engineering, purchasing, planning, and operations to ensure accuracy of the part data and execution of part changes.

Requirements

• Strong analytical skills required
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint abilities
• Bachelor’s degree in related field required
• Ability to effectively influence and work in cooperation with cross functional teams
• Strong communication, presentation and teamwork skills
• Strong computer skills and ability to quickly learn new software/applications
• Experience working with manufacturing, AS400 and Bills of Materials preferred

Responsibilities

• PFEP Enter/request new PFEP data
• Update PFEP data
• Monitor demand/usage
• Prepare Model Year (MY) changes
• Engineering Change Coordination
• Maintain change database
• Run change implementation meeting
• Send out notices for actions
• Engineering Change Implementation
• Monitor effective dates
• Recommend effective date changes
• Track/communicate part availability
• Follow ECN disposition
• Determine packaging requirements
• Coordinate with packaging engineering and manufacturing engineering as needed
• Prepare containers, labels, documents, locations, etc
• Implement part with ME/Process Tech Project Leader
• Lead CI activities
• Participate on kaizen/lean teams
• Lead new product material team
• Sustaining Tasks
• Container/kanban card audits
• Container, label, document updates
• Monitor all part replenishment (supermarket, high pick, sequence, kit, etc)
• Implement container updates based on usage

Benefits

• Polaris is proud to offer competitive compensation, including a market-leading profit-sharing plan that is fundamental to our pay-for-performance culture.
• At Polaris, employees are owners of the company through company contributions to our Employee Stock Ownership Plan and discounted employee stock purchases plan.
• Employees receive a generous matching contribution to 401(k), financial wellness education and consultation to plan for their financial future.
• In addition to competitive pay, Polaris provides a comprehensive suite of benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, wellness programs, paid time off, gym & personal training reimbursement, life insurance and disability offerings.
• Through the Polaris Foundation and our Polaris Gives paid volunteer time off, we support employees who actively volunteer their time, efforts, and passions to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities in which they live, play and work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees