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Continental

Worldwide tyre manufacturer and automotive components

MRO Engineer

Inventory ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeAguascalientes, MexicoNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience managing MRO and technical warehouses in manufacturing, preferably in automotive or hose manufacturing.
  • Experience classifying critical spare parts, performing ABC analysis, and establishing maximum and minimum stock levels, reorder points, and safety stock.
  • Experience using SAP S/4HANA MM/PM or a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) for material creation and modification, bills of materials (BOM), equivalencies, material requirements planning (MRP) parameters, reservations, work orders, and consumption records.
  • Experience tracking replenishment, purchase requisitions and orders, committed dates, partial deliveries, suppliers, repairs, and warranties.
  • At least five years of professional experience in Manufacturing Engineering or Control Engineering, preferably across two functional areas such as Maintenance, Control Engineering, Projects, Manufacturing Engineering, or Technical Services.
  • Knowledge of MRO spare-parts and inventory management, including criticality, ABC classification, safety stock, maximum and minimum levels, reorder points, lead time, consumption, and production-stoppage risk.
  • Ability to identify critical spare parts and equipment components, including PLC/CPU, HMI, variable-frequency drives, servomotors, power supplies, electronic cards, sensors, motors, valves, pumps, and actuators.
  • Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA MM/PM and CMMS for maintenance, technical warehousing, materials, work orders, reservations, consumption, and spare-part availability.
  • Knowledge of SAP part-number creation, extension, modification, and blocking procedures, including duplicate validation, manufacturer numbers, standardized descriptions, units of measure, material groups, plants, warehouses, MRP data, and purchasing data.
  • Knowledge of material master-data governance, technical catalogs, manufacturer codes, technical data sheets, approved suppliers, equivalencies, and change traceability in SAP.
  • Knowledge of BOMs, equipment-component identification, technical objects, maintenance plans, functional locations, and links to SAP PM/CMMS.
  • Ability to establish maximum and minimum stock levels, reorder points, and safety stock for critical spare parts using historical consumption, MTBF, MTTR, lead time, repair time, minimum order quantity, cost, and production risk.
  • Knowledge of the MRO supplier market, including OEMs, distributors, repair shops, and local suppliers, and evaluation of alternatives, dual sourcing, warranties, delivery times, and availability.
  • Knowledge of technical warehouse operations, including location, identification, labeling, preservation, cycle counts, stock accuracy, receipts, issues, quarantine, obsolescence, and repairable items.
  • Knowledge of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance planning, including material reservations, work-order material availability, kitting, consumption records, unplanned materials, and major-work tracking.
  • Knowledge of problem-solving and decision-making tools and methods, including 5 Why, Ishikawa, root cause failure analysis (RCFA), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), Pareto, 8D, and PDCA.
  • Knowledge of hydraulic, pneumatic, steam, vacuum, process-water, and utilities systems, including component selection, technical compatibility, and substitution criteria.
  • Knowledge of technical documentation and computer-aided drafting, including electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic diagrams, P&IDs, manuals, EPLAN, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or equivalent software.
  • Knowledge of industrial and environmental safety applied to maintenance and MRO, including lockout/tagout (LOTO), risk assessment, chemical handling, safety data sheets, contractors, and local legal requirements.
  • Project-management skills and tools, including CAPEX, requests for quotation (RFQs), supplier coordination, installation, commissioning, validation, and transfer.
  • Technical English proficiency for interpreting manuals, technical data sheets, and OEM documentation, communicating with suppliers, and evaluating supply alternatives.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a spare-parts criticality matrix by equipment, line, process, and safety, quality, and operational-continuity risk.
  • Classify materials as critical, safety-related, high-turnover, consumable, repairable, obsolete, or low-demand.
  • Define sourcing strategies for OEM, equivalent, repairable, and contingency spare parts, considering lead time and supplier availability.
  • Establish, document, and review maximum and minimum stock levels, reorder points, and safety stock for critical spare parts and maintenance materials.
  • Calculate inventory parameters using criticality, historical consumption, MTBF, MTTR, lead time, demand, minimum order quantity, cost, and stoppage risk.
  • Identify stockouts, excess inventory, idle inventory, and materials with no movement; issue adjustment and follow-up actions.
  • Review inventory parameters regularly and ensure changes are justified and approved.
  • Coordinate SAP procedures to create, extend, modify, and block part numbers.
  • Validate duplicate records, manufacturer numbers, standardized descriptions, units of measure, material groups, plants, warehouses, MRP data, and purchasing data before material creation.
  • Assemble technical data sheets, manufacturer and model information, equivalencies, criticality, approved supplier details, and approval evidence according to the authorized workflow.
  • Maintain master-data quality and document changes to prevent incorrect purchases and duplicate materials.
  • Maintain BOMs, catalogs, drawings, manuals, technical data sheets, and manufacturer part numbers associated with equipment.
  • Link spare parts to technical objects, work centers, maintenance plans, and maintenance orders in SAP PM.
  • Validate equivalencies, authorized substitutes, compatibility, service life, storage conditions, and usage restrictions.
  • Standardize descriptions to improve searches and prevent purchases of ambiguous materials.
  • Track purchase requisitions and orders, confirmations, promised dates, partial deliveries, and receipts.
  • Prioritize and expedite orders for critical spare parts or items at risk of causing downtime, escalating delays with Purchasing and suppliers.
  • Maintain a replenishment dashboard with owner, committed date, status, operational risk, and recovery action.
  • Confirm that received materials meet specifications, quantity, documentation, and required dates before closing follow-up.
  • Define classification, location, labeling, preservation, and visual controls for MRO spare parts and consumables.
  • Ensure cycle counts, stock accuracy, receipt and issue records, quarantine controls, and obsolete-material handling.
  • Coordinate picking and kitting for work orders, as well as the return of surplus and repairable items.
  • Protect the availability of critical spare parts and prevent losses from damage, expiry, or improper storage.
  • Prepare and control the budget for spare parts, repairs, external services, and maintenance materials.
  • Analyze spending by equipment, family, supplier, and material type in relation to criticality and operational performance.
  • Evaluate repair versus replacement, total cost of ownership, safety stock, and working capital.
  • Identify savings, standardization, reductions in urgent orders, and opportunities to recover repairable materials.
  • Analyze recurring failures, spare-parts consumption, critical equipment, and materials affecting line availability.
  • Participate in 5 Why, Ishikawa, root-cause analysis, and related analyses to define technical, inventory, and supplier actions.
  • Translate findings into improvements to spare-parts strategy, maintenance frequencies, BOMs, equivalencies, and stock parameters.
  • Track reliability, availability, MTBF, MTTR, and failure-related cost indicators.
  • Generate and update the equipment, component, spare-part, consumable, and service documentation base required by Maintenance.
  • Prepare technical data sheets, acceptance criteria, identification procedures, and guides for requesting materials.
  • Keep manuals, drawings, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and steam diagrams, and manufacturer documentation current.
  • Standardize names, families, units of measure, technical characteristics, and substitution criteria.
  • Manage the flow of repairable components, motors, electronic cards, variable-frequency drives, pumps, cylinders, valves, and other returnable assets.
  • Coordinate diagnostics, quotations, repairs, warranties, committed dates, technical receipt, and document closure.
  • Maintain traceability for components sent out, including supplier, serial number, cost, condition, and return date.
  • Validate safe and functional reintegration of components into inventory or equipment.
  • Design and maintain MRO management indicators, including the percentage of critical spare parts with maximum and minimum stock levels, stockouts, inventory accuracy, materials available for work orders, and service level.
  • Report replenishment lead time, overdue orders, urgent purchases, obsolete inventory, MRO spending, and supplier performance.
  • Present trends, risks, and recovery plans to Maintenance, Purchasing, Warehouse, and Operations.
  • Ensure SAP data and reports reflect actual shop-floor and warehouse conditions.
  • Identify spare parts, components, tooling, and materials; define part numbers, locations, labeling, and criticality classifications.
  • Perform physical inventory, cycle counts, reconciliations against SAP, discrepancy analysis, and authorized adjustments.
  • Record materials, BOMs, maximum and minimum stock levels, reorder points, and safety stock to ensure critical spare-part availability.
  • Assign tasks to technicians, standardize warehouse and SAP work methods for receipts, issues, reservations, consumption, counts, and activity closure, track purchases, and prevent unrecorded movements.
  • Control the quantity, identification, location, condition, maintenance, calibration, repair, and availability of molds, mandrels, guides, fixtures, and tools.
  • Train technical personnel in spare-part identification, SAP creation requests, stock inquiries, reservations, consumption, and replenishment.
  • Train personnel in criticality, maximum and minimum levels, reorder points, preservation, and material handling.
  • Coach personnel to improve technical-information quality and timely recording of consumption in work orders.
  • Support technical validation of maintenance needs involving electrical, electronic, PLC, instrumentation, hydraulic, pneumatic, steam, and auxiliary-service systems.
  • Confirm specifications, compatibility, and alternatives before purchase requests are submitted.
  • Participate in complex failure diagnosis, component selection, and technical-documentation updates.
  • Ensure technical knowledge is translated into correctly identified materials in SAP.
  • Assign daily priorities to technicians and MRO personnel according to equipment criticality, material availability, and operational needs.
  • Standardize work methods for the warehouse and SAP, including receipts, issues, reservations, consumption, counts, and activity closure.
  • Train and coach staff in spare-part identification, safety, SAP use, traceability, and tooling control.
  • Verify performance through audits, indicators, inventory accuracy, task completion, and deviation follow-up.
  • Coordinate and escalate issues with Maintenance, Warehouse, Purchasing, and Operations to resolve shortages, inventory discrepancies, replenishment delays, and staffing needs.
  • Keep technical data current, including asset hierarchy, BOMs, part numbers, criticality, documentation, and SAP records for tooling quantities and condition.
  • Investigate and correct discrepancies between physical inventory and SAP.
  • Coordinate cycle counts, reconciliations, root-cause analysis, authorized adjustments, and preventive actions.
  • Maintain movement traceability, prevent unrecorded issues, and report accuracy, recurring discrepancies, and their causes.
  • Monitor accuracy and availability of critical spare parts and tooling through physical-to-SAP discrepancy, availability, condition, and count-completion indicators.
  • Manage tooling inventory, including molds, guides, fixtures, devices, gauges, and changeover tools, by quantity, identification, location, and associated equipment or line.
  • Control tooling condition, maintenance, calibration, repair, service life, obsolescence, and availability.
  • Implement periodic inspections and condition records; coordinate replacement or repair to ensure critical tooling is ready for use.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in MRO and technical warehouse management in manufacturing, preferably in automotive or hose manufacturing.
  • Experience in Manufacturing Engineering or Control Engineering across two functional areas is preferred.

About the Company

Continental

Worldwide tyre manufacturer and automotive components

Continental designs and manufactures tyres for cars, trucks, buses, bicycles and motorcycles, selling to vehicle manufacturers and in the aftermarket. Through ContiTech, it also produces rubber and plastic technology parts such as hoses, belts, seals and surface materials for automotive and industrial use. Its products are developed and produced at sites worldwide, with tyres tailored for different vehicles and conditions and ContiTech components customized for equipment. The company differentiates itself by offering a broad, integrated mobility portfolio and global manufacturing and service capabilities, aiming to provide reliable mobility through tyres and components worldwide.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Hanover, Germany
Founded
1871

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