LOGISTICS IMPROVEMENT COORDINATOR HF

Job description

Faurecia?
Faurecia is an Equal Opportunity Employer
New trends and expectations are reshaping the automotive industry. Inspired by the exciting new challenges associated with this revolution, Faurecia anticipates the future of mobility developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. If you are willing to contribute and create value for tomorrow’s cleaner and smarter mobility, Faurecia is the place to be!
Faurecia’s VIE Program?
The VIE Program of Faurecia is an international young graduate program, which enables young graduates native from the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28 to work for one of our subsidiary around the world!
Business France, the French agency for international business development, is in charge of all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link: https://www.civiweb.com/ and https://careers.faurecia.com/job-offers
PLEASE NOTE: your application must be submitted in English to be considered by our non-French speaking teams in our plants worldwide.
PLEASE NOTE: as part of your international development, you cannot perform a VIE in the country of your citizenship.
Your position and environment?
Our Faurecia Clean Mobility – Emerging Market Division is looking for you as a VIE Logistics (Production Control & Logistics, PC&L) Improvement Coordinator for its plant based in Cape Town, South Africa.
The role of the Improvement Coordinator, in the context of the deployment of the Faurecia Excellence System (FES&P, Lean Manufacturing), is to drive the implementation of Production Control & Logistics (PC&L) tools and methodologies within a plant.
Your role and responsibilities?
The main missions of the role are to:
Ensure plant implementation of PC&L methods and tools.
Provide plant with PC&L standards: Material Information Flow Analysis (MIFA), Milk run, leveling, etc.
Define PC&L deployment objectives on a semi-annual basis and build up an action plan in cooperation with the plant and division PC&L managers.
Set up the means to achieve the action plan and ensure results.
Communicate Improvement initiatives: train and coach plant employees when necessary and carry out progress workshops in accordance with the plant PC&L manager.
Support management in the implementation of PC&L tools and provide technical support to other functions.
Propose, in coordination with the Production System Efficiency coordinator, visual management systems in order to improve reactivity in case of problems.
Identify and implement best practices.
Ensure Know-how capitalization and check that standard forms are used.
The mission will last 24 months.
Who are you?
The ideal candidate will have/be:
Master's degree in engineering, specialization in logistics and lean manufacturing is appreciated
Experience in production in an industrial environment
Knowledge of Logistics
Knowledge of ERP systems is a plus
International mind set, overseas experience is a plus
Minimum bi-lingual (English required)
Ready to take on a new challenge? Apply and join us!