# Production Supervisor, MP&L, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Marshall
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We're looking for a Production Supervisor to join our team at BlueOval Battery Park Michigan. As a key member of our start-up team, you'll have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to launch a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility from the ground up. Imagine: you, at the forefront of the electrification movement, helping to bring the next generation of vehicles to driveways, job sites and highways everywhere.  Our Production Supervisors are responsible for leading a dedicated hourly team, fostering an environment where they can do their best work and feel empowered. They act as champions of workplace safety, proactively enforcing regulations and fostering a culture of vigilance. They also lead and direct a team of employees that consistently makes high-quality products and meets or exceeds production targets.  Responsibilities:  * Safety First: Act as a champion of workplace safety, proactively enforcing regulations and fostering a culture of vigilance * Driving Operational Excellence: Lead and direct a team of employees that consistently makes high-quality products and meets or exceeds production targets * Strategic Focus & Problem Solving: Prioritize critical tasks and effectively allocate human resources to maximize efficiency * Team Leadership & Development: Embrace a servant leadership style, focusing on building high performing, winning teams and investing in their growth * Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data and insights to strike down downtime and quality defects, driving quantifiable improvements in efficiency and quality * Continuous Improvement & Quality Assurance: Maintain a relentless focus on identifying and eliminating inefficiencies, improving processes, and driving innovation to enhance productivity, quality, and safety * Conflict Resolution & Interpersonal Relationships: Proactively address conflicts fairly and effectively, facilitating mutually acceptable solutions * Accountability & Fairness: Champion accountability, managing both your own performance and that of the hourly workforce regarding processes and standards * Collaboration: Actively listen to and value the perspectives of all team members and other department stakeholders  Qualifications:  * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 3–7+ years of supervisory, manufacturing, military, or other relevant experience * Ability to work rotating shifts/hours, including nights and weekends * Experience with Lean / Six Sigma methodology and / or Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP) Experience * Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, constraint management principles, logistics planning, and management. * Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook) * Familiarity with ERP system background logic (SAP, MES, LES, etc.) structure * Experience in Automotive MP&L (Material Planning & Logistics) is preferable, new warehousing and logistics planning projects, and logistics automation project implementation * Analytical & Problem-Solving Acumen: Possesses strong analytical, logical thinking, and systematic problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions * Demonstrated knowledge of line balancing, time study, material flow, and capacity planning is essential * Adaptability & Proactive Work Ethic: Exhibits an open mind, eagerness to learn, and adaptability to change. Demonstrates a proactive, "can-do" attitude, taking initiative and approaching challenges with a solution-oriented mindset * Resilience & Flexibility: Capable of maintaining performance and composure under pressure, meeting tight deadlines, and adapting to various work schedules, including any shift, rotating shifts, and weekends * Leadership Potential: Shows capacity for effective leadership, including the ability to assign work to a unionized hourly workforce and hold employees accountable for adhering to safety, quality, and throughput processes  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

## Skills

### Required
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Military Decision-Making Process
- ERP system background logic
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Logistics planning
- Constraint management
- Line balancing
- Time study
- Material flow
- Capacity planning

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