Job Description
Job Description The Role The Flint Assembly Material Handling Engineer is the technical owner for material movement systems at Flint Assembly, with a strong focus on safety, automation, and continuous improvement. The role designs, implements, and sustains autonomous material handling solutions and supporting processes to ensure stable, efficient, and safe delivery of materials to production. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Plant GSC, Plant Safety, Plant Production and Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, and Autonomous Robot Center teams to ensure that the right parts are delivered to the right place at the right time. What You'll Do (Responsibilities) Champion a zero-injury culture, embedding safety into all material automation design, implementation, and operations. Ensure automated material handling systems protect product quality. Serve as the primary technical owner for automated material systems. Lead implementation and sustainment of autonomous material handling projects, including commissioning, validation, and hand-off to operations. Design and continuously improve dock-to-point-of-use material flow to enable automation and reduce handling waste and ergonomic risk. Create, maintain, and optimize material handling layouts to support current and future automation. Participate in launch and change management activities to ensure material automation readiness for new models, options, and suppliers. Define, maintain, and enforce standardized work for material handling processes and automation projects, including change control and readiness reviews. Use data from production and fleet systems to identify issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions. Apply