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SR Production Supervisor - Quality

Ford Motor Company Ypsilanti, MI On-site senior full-time

Salary

$99,100-$166,200 per year

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Description

We're looking for a Senior Production Supervisor to lead transformation and shape culture, driving performance and quality in our operations.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Production Supervisor, you will be the vital link between strategic goals and daily execution, leading a dedicated hourly team and fostering an environment where they can do their best work and feel empowered.

  • Act as a champion of workplace safety, proactively enforcing regulations and fostering a culture of vigilance.
  • Lead and direct a team of employees to consistently make high-quality products and meet or exceed production targets.
  • Prioritize critical tasks and effectively allocate human resources to maximize efficiency.
  • Apply a 'Bias for Action,' promptly and decisively addressing safety and quality issues to prevent larger problems.
  • Embrace a servant leadership style, focusing on building high-performing teams and investing in their growth.
  • Utilize data and insights to drive quantifiable improvements in efficiency and quality.
  • Maintain a relentless focus on identifying and eliminating inefficiencies, improving processes, and driving innovation to enhance productivity, quality, and safety.
  • Proactively address and mediate conflicts fairly and effectively, facilitating mutually acceptable solutions.
  • Champion accountability, managing both your own performance and that of the hourly workforce regarding processes and standards.
  • Actively listen to and value the perspectives of all team members and other department stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 7+ years of supervisory, manufacturing, military, or other relevant experience.
  • Proven track record of leading large-scale process improvements or cultural shifts.
  • Ability to work rotating shifts/hours, including nights and weekends.

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.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

Skills

Required

  • Lean / Six Sigma methodology
  • Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP)
  • dimensional inspection methods
  • GD&T
  • metrology
  • contamination analysis
  • calibration systems
  • MSA
  • Gauge R&R studies
  • IATF 16949
  • ISO 9001
  • root cause analysis
  • problem-solving methodologies

Nice to have

  • Experience with quality systems
  • data analysis tools
  • Microsoft Office applications
  • Lead Gauge & Layout and Contamination Lab operations and personnel

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/73432

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