# North American Transportation Yard Management Supervisor

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,680-$212,760
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you will lead the strategic coordination and optimization of the trailer flow process between Plant Bullpens and Plant Docks across all Ford North American (NA) facilities. Your responsibilities will include establishing performance standards, mapping common Switching and Yard Management (SYM) business processes, and driving bullpen reduction actions to keep plants operating within capacity constraints.

You will partner closely with local Plant teams, Purchasing, and Finance to minimize Driver and Trailer Dwell, manage SYM budgets, author Statements of Work (SOW) for market tests, and oversee shuttling invoice approvals. Additionally, you will collaborate with Ford Land to procure off-site lots and complete business cases (PAR, MEARS, PO) while working with MFE and the NAML Planning Team to ensure new model programs have adequate bullpen capacity and equipment funding.

A key focus of this role will be driving digital transformation by partnering with Ford IT and vendors to launch the new PINC Yard Management System (YMS) across NA, deploying hardware enablers like FastGate and MRTs, integrating new Rack Tendering Processes, and training Ford, Penske, and plant personnel.

Throughout all operations, you will actively promote a diverse and inclusive culture and maintain strict compliance with Ford’s Anti-Harassment (B-110) and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies.

Responsibilities:

- Manage a Team of (6) Analysts.

- Complete Launch of Yard Management System.

- Manage Carrier KPI's.

- Perform Kaizen activities w/ the Plant to achieve cost saves.

- Ensure common business practices.

- Work with Plants on Flow from Yard to Dock.

- Forecast future model yard space requirements.

Qualifications:

- Engineering or Business degree

- 5 years’ MP&L experience

- MBA or advanced degree

- Understanding of Yard Management Systems

- Understanding of Logistics

- Understanding of Carriers

- Understanding of how Trailer Yards operate

- Understanding of MP&L and Plant processes

Even better, you may have:

- 5 years of MP&L experience with Ford

## Skills

### Required
- Yard Management Systems
- Logistics
- Carriers
- Trailer Yards
- MP&L and Plant processes

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