# Production Supervisor-Tool & Die **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: Salary grade 6-7 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/62394?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c3eb13ed-c1c ## Description As a Production Supervisor-Tool & Die at Ford Motor Company, you will play a critical role in ensuring the efficient production of high-quality vehicles. This supervisory leadership role requires strong leadership skills, attention to detail, and the ability to motivate and coach a team to achieve key performance indicators. ### Responsibilities - Coach Safety, Quality and Productivity to ensure objectives are met through following standardized work - Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives - Support Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) and coach problem resolution to the lowest level - Communicate and recognize team members' achievements - Meet FTT, inventory, cost, scrap, supply and tooling expense targets - Build Team Leader and Team Member capability - Create a conducive work environment for the team(s) to complete their assigned responsibilities/tasks - Perform basic administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents - Coordinate Safety Operating System activities including overhead safety, lifting, and rigging and Energy Control and Lockout procedures - Lead skilled trades/die maintenance personnel to evaluate Die Readiness requirements for maintaining and improving production yields, output, and up time. - Supervise preventative maintenance schedules, inspections and repairs to minimize down time - Coordinate and schedule manpower and materials to meet maintenance requirements to minimize down time - Monitor day-to-day production processes, Draw panel formability, last hit process, contamination investigation - Understand and expertise in draw die forming, maintenance of beads, trim steels, and pierce operations - Ability to coordinate major and minor die repairs - Determine and correct root cause of related downtime issues - Assist and teach die maintenance troubleshooting techniques to improve mean time between failure and mean time to repair - Ensure start-up readiness for production - Coordinate maintenance activities with other plant operations - Identify and ensure that safety hazards and unsafe practices are corrected and addressed - Perform other related duties. ### Qualifications - High School Diploma or GED - 1+ years of supervisory and/or manufacturing experience - Working knowledge in Microsoft: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook - Ability to work rotating shifts and hours, including nights and weekends - Position is currently for 1st shift: 10pm-6am, however, applicants must be open to work any shift and hours - Fundamental working knowledge major automotive die forming - Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism in difficult and stressful situations - Two-way communicator who actively listens to hourly team members, leaders, business partners and customers - Highly committed to continuous improvement, while applying innovative solutions with a customer first mindset - Create a culture of safety and apply and implement workplace policies - Administer the CBA (collective bargaining agreement) consistently and effectively - Values different opinions & is open to ideas & perspectives from others - Capable of assigning work to unionized hourly workforce and holding employees accountable for following processes pertaining to daily work assignments in terms of safety, quality, and throughput - Strong organizational and administrative skills - Strong interpersonal skills and leadership behaviors - Ability to multi-task - Strong problem-solving and conflict management skills - Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate leadership in Ford OS (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 child care and more - Vehicle discount program for employees and family members - 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. ### Salary This position is a salary grade 6-7 and ranges from $72,480-141,360. ## Skills ### Required - Microsoft Excel - Microsoft Word - Microsoft PowerPoint - Microsoft Outlook - Die forming - Maintenance of beads - Trim steels - Pierce operations - Kaizen - Continuous improvement - Leadership - Communication - Problem-solving - Conflict management --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/62394?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)