Description
At Ford Motor Company, we are dedicated to designing, manufacturing and selling high quality vehicles that meet the diverse needs of our customers. We believe our employees and the different perspectives that they bring to the business are the driving force behind our success. Come discover a company that is focused on the quality of our vehicles, the environment, the community and the world in which we live.
Responsibilities
As a Lead Production Supervisor, you will be responsible for driving safety, quality, cost, delivery, people, maintenance, and environmental issues by understanding and consistently applying standard manufacturing operating system processes. You will validate and bridge operational needs to ensure the line is running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts.
Safety
- Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards
- Review department safety metrics and coordinate improvement activities
Quality
- Direct data-driven maintenance processes to improve quality metrics (e.g., higher FTT, less scrap, less contamination, etc.)
- Devise and implement strategy to tighten tolerances within specifications for fit, form and functionality
Delivery
- Coordinate the resources and activities required to ensure problem free start-ups
- Facilitate start-up/shift-to-shift meetings
Cost
- Promote and ensure continuous improvement in the manufacturing engineering organization toward the common goal of improving product quality, plant competitiveness and total cost structure
- Monitor, control, and improve Maintenance Cost Per Unit (MCPU)
- Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives: meet or beat schedule
- Manage and support material control (spare part inventory), repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews
People
- Supervise salaried employees
- Build Team Leaders’ and Team Members’ capabilities; mentor subordinates
- Basic Administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents
Maintenance
- Lead all daily, weekend and shutdown maintenance planning with input from your team(s)
- Integrate the maintenance plan into total department business plan
- Use Maximo to analyze data and evaluate the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance plan
Environment
- Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Education: High School Diploma
- Experience: 1-2 years technical work experience and troubleshooting in a Manufacturing environment
- Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls
- Ability to work any shift as well as rotating shifts and weekends
Preferred Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- Experience: 3-5 years automotive experience
- Body shop/stamping/paint/subassembly experience preferred
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles
- Knowledge of constraint management principles
- Safety and Quality experience preferred
- Microsoft Office knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook)
- Prior experience managing a unionized work force
- CNC machining experience (PTO specific)
- Helium leak stand experience (PTO specific)
Benefits
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.