Coordinator – Launch

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What we offer:

Group Summary:

General Job Duties:

• Exhibit an objective, fair, and professional attitude consistent with the principles of the MAGNA Employee’s Charter and support a positive, productive workplace. 

• Demonstrate teamwork, ownership, and effective problem solving in an environment focused on continuous improvement. 

• Follow company policies, business objectives, and customer quality requirements in the daily execution of assigned responsibilities. 

• Communicate clearly and professionally with MP&L, Program Management, Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Production, Finance, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. 

• Identify risks early, develop practical recovery actions, and elevate concerns when launch timing, cost, quality, or customer delivery may be affected. 

Specific Job Duties:

• Own and maintain the MP&L launch readiness plan for assigned programs, including milestones, open actions, responsible owners, due dates, and escalation status. 
• Coordinate material planning activities for prototype, pre-production, validation, run-at-rate, start-of-production, and production stabilization builds. 
• Confirm part master data, bills of material, planning parameters, lead times, order quantities, supplier information, storage locations, and delivery schedules are established and aligned before each build phase. 
• Monitor purchased components, packaging, work-in-process, and finished goods readiness; communicate shortages and coordinate recovery plans with the appropriate teams. 
• Coordinate supplier and internal logistics readiness, including inbound flow, delivery frequency, transportation requirements, labeling, packaging, returnable containers, and point-of-use presentation. 
• Lead or support MP&L reviews for program gates, launch meetings, build-readiness reviews, engineering changes, and production ramp-up activities. 
• Maintain launch dashboards and status reports covering material availability, inventory exposure, premium freight, packaging readiness, open issues, and key milestones. 
• Coordinate phase-in and phase-out plans for new, changed, and obsolete material to minimize shortages, excess inventory, obsolescence, and disruption to production. 
• Support ERP/MRP readiness by validating data and transactions and coordinating test scenarios, cutover activities, and issue resolution with process owners. 
• Partner with Production and Warehouse teams to establish receiving, storage, line-feeding, sequencing, replenishment, shipping, and containment processes for launch. 
• Coordinate customer and supplier requirements for production part approvals, shipment authorization, delivery schedules, and launch-specific logistics when applicable. 
• Track launch-related costs and operational impacts, including premium transportation, special packaging, excess inventory, and temporary labor or handling requirements; communicate exposure to management. 
• Ensure launch documentation, work instructions, visual standards, checklists, and lessons learned are completed and transferred to the responsible production teams. 
• Support launch containment and stabilization by monitoring performance, resolving material-flow issues, and confirming a structured handoff to serial-production ownership. 
• Participate in continuous improvement activities and apply lessons learned from prior launches to future programs. 
• Perform other MP&L duties as assigned based on business and launch requirements. 

Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent required. 

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, engineering, or a related field preferred. 

• Relevant launch, materials planning, logistics, manufacturing, or program coordination experience may be considered in place of preferred education. 

Skills and Experience:

• Experience in materials planning, logistics, production control, inventory control, purchasing, warehousing, or manufacturing launch coordination. 
•  Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, bills of material, inventory transactions, demand planning, and production scheduling. 
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel; proficiency with Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. 
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and cross-functional action items with limited supervision. 
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with close attention to detail and data accuracy. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present launch status, risks, and recovery actions to multiple levels of the organization. 
• Ability to interpret program timing, engineering changes, customer requirements, packaging specifications, and logistics data. 
• Automotive manufacturing and new product launch experience preferred. 
• Forklift certification or experience preferred when required for assigned tasks. 

Physical Requirements:

• This position requires a person to have the ability to perform work while standing, walking, or sitting for extended amounts of time. 

• Must be able to walk up and down stairs frequently.

• Ability to lift up to15 pounds on a frequent basis and up to 40 pounds on an occasional basis is required. 
• Be able to work near alcohols, solvent, paints, or plastic sanding dust. 
• Work below the knees and above the shoulders will be required. 
• Good vision at a close distance and the ability to distinguish color is required with or without the use of corrective lenses. 

• This position requires the ability to hear alarms with or without the use of hearing aids.

Training Requirements:

• You will receive training to perform your job on an on-going basis concurrent with Decostar business operations. Training areas will include safety, quality, continuous improvement and other job specific training that is determined to be an essential part of your job and Decostar business operations

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:

At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.

AI-Assisted Screening Disclosure

As part of our commitment to a fair, consistent, and efficient recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications submitted through our Workday system. These tools help identify qualifications and experience that align with the role requirements. Please note that AI is used solely to support our recruiters. Final decisions are always made by the hiring manager and the hiring team. Importantly, no applicant data is shared externally through these AI tools. All information remains securely within our systems and is handled in accordance with our privacy and data protection policies.

Under conditions defined by applicable law, you may have the right to request an explanation of how AI is used to support decision-making.

If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact our Talent Attraction team.