Material Flow Coordinator - Floor Operations

Description
The Role
The Material Flow Coordinator supports safe, accurate, and efficient material flow operations across the Bedford Plant. This role helps ensure the right material is available in the right place at the right time to support production.
The person in this role works closely with production, logistics, quality, purchasing, suppliers, and third-party service providers to resolve material issues, maintain inventory accuracy, and support continuous improvement. This is a highly collaborative role that requires strong ownership, attention to detail, and the ability to respond quickly in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Responsibilities

• Monitor daily material flow conditions and respond to issues that could affect production.
• Maintain material accuracy through physical counts, cycle counts, recounts, and inventory adjustments.
• Investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies, negative balances, count variances, and other record balance issues.
• Analyze and respond to material shortages, min/max violations, overflow conditions, and open shipping notice issues.
• Support engineering changes through material review, communication, and count validation.
• Coordinate the disposition of damaged, rejected, obsolete, suspect, or non-conforming material with quality and operations teams.
• Support shipping activities, including special shipments, emergency shipments, picklists, and related documentation.
• Review and support claims, premium transportation requests, and other material movement exceptions.
• Investigate supplier, carrier, packaging, labeling, and part presentation issues and communicate follow-up actions.
• Maintain reporting for material status, shortages, counts, rework, overflow, claims, and other plant metrics.
• Participate in daily and weekly operational meetings to communicate material risks, actions, and priorities.
• Maintain organized work practices and support standardized work, workplace organization, and audit readiness.
• Identify material flow improvement opportunities and support corrective actions and continuous improvement efforts.
• Support annual inventory activities, periodic audits, and other required compliance-related tasks.
• Work collaboratively with plant floor teams, office teams, suppliers, and logistics partners to support uninterrupted production.
• Support Dangerous Goods Transportation readiness by tracking training, attending monthly meetings, and providing evidence of plant compliance.
• Support autonomous material movement within the facility as a back-up resource, as needed.
• Review and respond to routine communications related to material status and plant needs.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 3 years of Experience in a manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, warehouse, production control, or material control environment.
• Working knowledge of inventory management and material flow processes in a manufacturing setting.
• Experience with cycle counting, inventory adjustments, record balance reconciliation, and shortage escalation.
• Ability to analyze issues, make timely decisions, and solve problems in a fast-paced production environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple functions and shifts.
• Basic to intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Teams, and other standard business tools.
• Ability to work in plant floor, warehouse, dock, storage, and production support areas as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required.
• Experience supporting supplier issue follow-up, carrier claims, premium freight, and shipping coordination.
• Experience supporting engineering changes, overflow reduction, or material presentation improvements.
• Experience with GM material systems, plant inventory tools, or related material planning systems.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement activities in a manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with compliance-related material processes, including Dangerous Goods Transportation practices.
• Experience supporting autonomous material movement processes within a manufacturing facility.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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