# Team Manager-Production

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Sterling Heights
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Leadership level 6: $112,680-212,760
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you will be responsible for overseeing production operations within a manufacturing environment. Your key responsibilities will include delivering department scorecard objectives, owning processes such as constraint management and VRT, standardizing workstations, planning change, and driving continuous improvement opportunities.

Responsibilities:

- Confirm standards are in place

- Monitor and confirm that manufacturing operating system standards are being applied and adhered to throughout the plant

- Develop, coach, and support to achieve SQDCPME objectives

- Support issues raised by the teams

- Coach, teach, and feedback on resolution of abnormalities, and validate closure of concerns

- Provide necessary resources to maintain production flow and confirm critical inputs are being performed to the acceptable standard(s)

- Plan maintenance tasks, monitor completion and effectiveness, and drive improvement and/or coaching opportunities

Communication and Recognition:

- Enable a culture of learning through demonstration of effective communication skills

- Respect and encourage respect of all team members by my actions

- Create a conducive work environment for the team(s) to complete their assigned responsibilities / tasks

- Create a Zero Tolerance environment and reaffirm team members respect each other

- Create a proactive performance driven culture that listens, reacts and supports (effective communication, education, listening, trust) to capture the hearts and minds of the people

- Proactively recognize the teams accomplishments and improve morale

Qualifications:

- Education: Bachelor or related degree; or foreign equivalency degree, or a combination of equivalent experience and education

- 5+ years of Production, Operations, Manufacturing experience in a Automotive environment leading salaried team members

- Strong ability to interface with plant hourly, salaried personnel and plant management

- Strong ability to present in front of plant management

- Ability to teach Ford Production System principles

- Union negotiations experience

- Competent in the use of data for decision making

- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing

- Ability to work effectively as part of a team

- Excellent leadership skills with demonstrated ability to resolve diverse problems

- Work well under pressure and to be able to work under crisis management when necessary

- Ability to work and multi-task in fast paced environment

Even better, you may have:

- Education: Master’s Degree

- Broad production experience

- Lead Process Coach experience

- 6-sigma designation preferred

- Strong analytical skills and quick decision-making capability preferred

- Microsoft Office knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook)

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

Salary:

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $112,680-212,760.

## Skills

### Required
- Production operations
- Manufacturing
- Automotive
- Leadership
- Communication
- Team management
- Problem-solving
- Data analysis
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- Six sigma
- postgraduate degree
- Broad production experience
- Lead process coach experience
- Analytical skills
- Quick decision-making capability

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