Senior Production Supervisor

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