Mercedes-Benz: Building Exceptional Vehicles… and Careers!
The best chapters in Alabama’s automotive success story are yet to come. The Mercedes-Benz automobile of the future will be different; greener, more efficient, safer, and even more fascinating. Only one thing will never change – It will wear a star.
MBUSI is home to the GLE, GLE Coupe, and GLS Sport Utility Vehicles and the   C-Class for the North American market. Our facility is one of the most advanced automotive manufacturing facilities in the world, with over 6 million square feet under one roof. The plant, located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, is positioned in an area of natural beauty and abundant natural resources.
MBUSI offers an excellent compensation and benefits package including health and life insurance, 401(k) and retirement, on-site child development and wellness facilities. MBUSI is committed to excellence and actively promotes teamwork, safety, quality, and continuous improvement within its ranks. Our Team Members share a common goal to always be the best premium auto manufacturer in North America.
Mercedes-Benz, U.S. International, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.  Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc. follows all local, state and federal laws in all aspects of business.
 
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply for any open positions.


 
Purpose of the Position: Under general supervision, manage systems, processes, and interfaces between the Plant Control and Steering (PCS) control room, shop control rooms and other MBUSI partners, systems, and users.



 


Essential Functions:  (List all basic responsibilities related to the purpose of the position)
 
Maintain and control various production control systems - Production Control systems includes plant systems like PLUS, MRS, WMS, block case database, CISM and others:
Ensure cross department cooperation and communication between shops
Examine current Production Control systems and plant systems
Collaborate with users to gather requirements for new systems, system upgrades, and modifications to existing functions.
Produce specifications for new or modified systems based on current projects and needs
Liaise with other IT staff such as programmers to provide requirements for new systems.
Work with IT to implement new systems in PCS – coordinate training and rollout along with change loops if necessary.
Benchmark best practices between plants
 
Act as the major incident manager for control system downtime by Facilitating communication between multiple departments and organizing emergency meetings and escalations for major events or disruptions to production.
 
Work with Series Planning, Capacity Management, and scheduling to add/remove restrictions for body/assembly shops. Implement restrictions using PLUS in the control room and work with shops if deviation from the restrictions are required.
 
Act as the “Pearl Chain” subject-matter expert by developing and rolling out Pearl Chain training to various teams and training forums. Use understanding of Pearl Chain to participate in various cross department discussions for continuous improvement of processes and applications and onboarding on new suppliers and processes.
 
Train users and develop support documentation on new or updated systems used within PCS.
Identify problems within a business through participation in crossfunctional meetings with process partners, evaluation of data modelling, testing phases, etc.
Communicate with other departments to determine training requirements for PCS based on new processes, plant layouts, system changes, etc.
Make recommendations for businesses to improve based on previous research and benchmarking of best practices of control room functions, system usage, steering concepts, communication between process partners, etc.  
Communicate the benefits of new technologies and/or strategies to internal and external stakeholders.
Oversee the implementation of new technology and systems
Organize and facilitate workshops as needed for troubleshooting, system improvements/changes, cross department and cross plant cooperation as well as for new system launches. Ensure supporting information for training is properly documented.



 


Marginal Functions: (List responsibilities, which are not essential, but may be required)
Perform other related duties as required.
Support other areas regarding Operational plan, broadcast system, and operational calendar.



 


Financial authority and responsibility:
N/A



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