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Job Description

This role supports the MP&L Planning EMEA team by designing and implementing material flow and logistics concepts for automotive manufacturing projects across the EMEA region. You will play a key role in Greenfield and Brownfield plant launches, developing efficient warehouse, line-side, and automation solutions that improve operational performance and support successful program execution.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end material flow concepts for Greenfield and Brownfield projects.
• Define and optimize warehouse concepts including internal warehouses, external warehouses, supermarkets, and sequencing areas.
• Develop line-side presentation concepts for manufacturing operations.
• Create and maintain detailed AutoCAD layouts for logistics operations.
• Lead indirect labor planning and MTM-based staffing calculations.
• Define and optimize warehouse equipment (WHE) and material handling equipment (MHE) concepts.
• Support automation projects including AGVs, AMRs, and warehouse automation solutions.
• Conduct capacity, throughput, and logistics efficiency studies.
• Support RFQ activities through concept development, staffing calculations, and logistics costing.
• Lead logistics planning workstreams during launch projects.
• Develop and maintain EMEA planning standards and best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in material flow planning, manufacturing logistics, warehouse design, industrial engineering, or supply chain design.
• Experience supporting Greenfield and Brownfield projects within automotive manufacturing, preferably in a Tier 1 environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD and strong knowledge of warehouse planning, logistics layouts, and material flow methodologies.
• Fluent German and English communication skills required to support regular interaction with customers and international stakeholders, with willingness to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.

We offer

• A collaborative environment within an experienced team, where mutual trust is one of the key foundations of our work.
• Long-term career prospects in a sustainably growing international company.
• Additional benefits, including flexible working hours and a flexitime account, an on-site cafeteria, parking facilities, a Lear shuttle service between the office and the airport/suburban railway station, complimentary beverages, and various discounts, including fitness club memberships and more.

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