Job Description

Faurecia Services Group

With 248 industrial sites, 37 R&D centers and 100,000 employees in 37 countries, Faurecia is one of the world’s top ten automotive suppliers.

Faurecia’s mission is to develop technologies for Sustainable Mobility and create personalized experiences for the Cockpit of the Future. At the same time, we offer solutions to meet the challenges of future generations, in line with our convictions.

As a leader in our four activities, Seating, Clean Mobility, Interiors and Clarion Electronics, we work hand in hand with manufacturers to design innovations that meet society’s new expectations, particularly in terms of the environment, connectivity, and autonomous driving.

Our teams design, develop, produce, and deliver cutting-edge solutions for intuitive on-board living and sustainable mobility.

Together, we are inventing the car of the future, connected and autonomous.

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 graduate’s native from the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28 to work for one of our subsidiaries around the world!

Business France, the French agency for international business development, oversees all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link: https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/ and http://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 Interior Systems (FIS) plant in Blue Springs, Missouri (North America) is looking for you as a VIE Production Control and Logistics Improvement Coordinator.

Your role and responsibilities

The role of the PC&L Improvement Coordinator is to manage logistics activities of a plant and deploy the Group's Production Control & Logistics (PC&L) policy.

Your main missions will be to:

• Ensure plant implementation of PC&L (Production Control & Logistics) methods and tools.
• Provide plant with PC&L (Production Control & Logistics) 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.
• Ensure Know-how capitalization and check that standard forms are used.
• Analyze, understand, and anticipate the customer needs, ensuring that they are reflected in production activities.
• Implement and drive the Master Production Schedule (PDP) to ensure a level production plan and make production line provisions for variations of customer demand.
• Support commitments established in the ISO 14001 Environmental Policy.
• Follow requirements established in Blue Springs Plant ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) procedures and work instructions.
• Follow values established within Being Faurecia. Act with an entrepreneurial mindset as well as with autonomy and accountability.
• Support environmental programs to achieve objectives and targets.

The mission will last 18 months.

Candidate profile

Skills, Education, and Experience

• Knowledge of quality matters
• International mind set, overseas experience a plus
• Strong teamwork sense
• Good communication skills
• Master's degree in engineering or business
• Experience in production in an industrial environment
• English required

Leadership Competencies

• Cultivates Innovation
• Cultivates Innovation
• Manage Ambiguity
• Manage Complexity
• Customer Focus
• Drives Results
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Learning Agility
• Political Savvy
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness
• Collaborates with Others
• Instills Trust

Ready to take on a new challenge?

Apply and join us!