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In our people, you will find tremendous commitment to our corporate values. Our products and employees reflect this dedication. We are looking for diverse top-notch individuals to join the Mercedes-Benz Team and uphold these hallmarks.\nJob Overview\nThe PDC Process Improvement Engineer is responsible for providing engineering expertise to the Parts Distribution Centers (PDC) by improving end-to-end material flow, designing systematic layouts, optimizing space utilization and leading continuous improvement initiatives. This role provides analysis to leadership to ensure that operational processes are efficient, cost- effective, and of highest quality to meet customer requirements and strategic objectives. The location of this position resides at the Parts Distribution Center (PDC), but reports into Home Office which requires continuous alignment to all Home Office and PDC expectations around culture, communication and business topics.\nResponsibilities\nLeads cross-functional teams tasked with identifying and eliminating inefficiencies within layout, process, and material flow to ensure the most cost-effective and quality design.\nDesigns storage locations to maximize the PDC's available cubic space to reduce labor and material handling costs while utilizing optimal WMS configurations.\nProject manager for all Lean Management initiatives across Home Office and PDC Network teams including training, sponsoring, facilitating and transitioning of knowledge for others to use and apply to improve end-to-end supply chain inefficiencies.\nSupport Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) initiatives by identifying and resolving non-compliant processes within PDC.\nCollaborates with international and domestic leadership to support ad-hoc process improvement and standardization opportunities that ensure the most effective and efficient processes.\nRepresents the PDC as a liaison for understanding unique site infrastructure, storage system configurations, and planning for all business unit and IT integration projects.\nDevelops recommendations for PDC productivity targets by analyzing labor code data and presenting findings to PDC leadership for approval.\nManages large-scale strategic initiatives across all project planning phases including initiation, planning, execution, and closure that add value to internal and external customers.\nSupport enterprise-wide initiatives to define the future-state systems landscape and optimization of the physical footprint of the North American logistics network.\nCalculates cycle time using work measurement techniques, determines standard work, and communicates the results to leadership to enhance daily labor planning tools.\nEvaluates alternative and emerging warehouse technologies and their potential benefits to safety, quality and productivity to the North American PDC Network.\nLead efforts to standardize processes, procedures, and best practices to ensure consistency in operations, documentation, and reporting across the PDC network.\nConsistently engage and communicate with PDC leadership to ensure excellent collaboration through common understanding of the operation that enables continuous improvement.\nQualifikationen\n Qualifications\nMust have ability to successfully build relationships, communicate across organizational structure and effectively influence others.\nRequires a Bachelor's Degree in:\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering\nCertifications (Preferred):\nLean or Six Sigma Black Belt (Lean preferred)\n\nProject Management Professional (PMP) preferred\n\nMust have at least 5-7 years of demonstrated experience in the following:\nAutoCAD/Solidworks\n\nMicrosoft Office products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and MS Project)\n\nUnderstanding of warehouse processes (receiving through shipping), e\nxternal systems that may interface with the WMS, p\neripheral interface devices (RF, printers, etc.)\n\nEEO Statement\nMercedes-Benz USA is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of our team. 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