Description
The Senior Production Supervisor position is a supervisory leadership role at Ford Motor Company, located in Livonia, MI. In this role, you will coach and mentor frontline team members to build capability and drive performance. You will manage skills matrix, including certifications and license renewals, and ensure consistent shift handoff communication across all shifts and crews.
Responsibilities:
- Coach and mentor frontline salary/hourly team members to build capability and drive performance
- Manage skills matrix, including certifications and license renewals (forklift, crane, hazmat)
- Ensure consistent shift handoff communication across all shifts and crews
- Resolve conflicts and manage team morale within a union/UAW environment
- Set clear expectations and KPIs for attendance, quality, cost, and safety
- Recognize and reinforce good performance, not just correct poor performance
- Demonstrate One Ford leadership behaviors through strong interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills
- Manage labor costs, including overtime scheduling and control, headcount-to-volume ratios
- Control inventory/WIP, monitor dock-to-dock time, and reduce reliance on premium freight
- Apply lean tools including 5S, standardized work, value stream mapping, and waste elimination
- Optimize equipment manpower utilization in running lean and opportunities to reduce RTO
- Apply Ford Production System (FPS) or equivalent lean production system principles
- Apply OSHA/Ford safety standards, including forklift safety, pedestrian/vehicle separation
- Lead incident investigations and root cause corrective action (RCCA)
- Proactively identify hazards through near-miss reporting, safety audits, and Gemba Walks
- Lead safety talks and reinforce PPE and all Vehicle Safety Procedure compliance
- Apply root cause problem-solving methods (5-Why, fishbone/Ishikawa)
- Use data-driven decision making, including metrics tracking, trend analysis, and dashboards
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED
- 2–3 years of experience as a lead / senior supervisor
- Ability to work the night shift, as well as weekends and rotating shifts as needed
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Capable of assigning work to a unionized hourly workforce and holding employees accountable for following processes related to daily work assignments in terms of safety, quality, and throughput
- Strong organizational and administrative skills
- Ability to multi-task effectively
- Strong problem-solving and conflict management skills
- Demonstrated ability to exhibit One Ford leadership behaviors, combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills
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