# Senior Production Supervisor **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $72,480 - $141,360 **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72512?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b38642f3-0c1 ## Description The Senior Production Supervisor position at Ford Motor Company is a supervisory leadership role that involves coaching and mentoring frontline team members, managing skills matrices, and ensuring consistent shift handoff communication. Responsibilities: - Coach and mentor frontline salary/hourly team members to build capability and drive performance - Manage skills matrix, including certifications and license renewals - 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 - Demonstrate One Ford leadership behaviors through strong interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills - Manage labor costs, including overtime scheduling and control - 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 - Apply Ford Production System (FPS) or equivalent lean production system principles - Apply OSHA/Ford safety standards - Lead incident investigations and root cause corrective action - 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 - Use data-driven decision making 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 - 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 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 - Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time Salary: $72,480 - $141,360 ## Skills ### Required - Lean tools - 5S - standardized work - value stream mapping - waste elimination - OSHA/Ford safety standards - root cause problem-solving methods - data-driven decision making ### Nice to have - Bachelor's Degree - Safety and quality experience - Six Sigma: Black or Green Belt certified - Knowledge of constraint management principles --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72512?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)