# Area Manager, Front End Production, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Marshall, MI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,700-$268,300
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, you will use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions, build and lead an agile team to deliver advanced technology, create a culture of trust, and foster leadership in others.

Responsibilities:

- Achieve business results by leading the development and delivery of Key Performance Indicators to ensure department objectives support overall business objectives.

- Drive continuous improvement and Lean Manufacturing principles.

- Motivate teams by leveraging technology and best-in-class manufacturing systems.

- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert for Key Unifying Processes (KUP), partnering with other Area Managers to lead the standardized rollout and continuous evolution of these systems plant wide.

- Leverage manufacturing execution systems (MES) and real-time data to identify bottlenecks and implement sustainable solutions.

- Support employees by removing barriers to their success and developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities.

- Lead change efforts to construct and achieve manufacturing standards.

- Demonstrate empathy and embrace Gemba philosophy by engaging regularly with employees in production environments to listen and problem solve.

- Champion the formation of the culture required to achieve the Vision, Mission, and Values to deliver performance objectives.

- Enable a culture of learning through demonstration of effective communication skills.

- Develop ‘leaders as teachers’ at all levels by ensuring all employees receive necessary training, coaching, and support to optimize performance and advance both the overall organization as well as self.

- Lead and align diverse, multicultural teams to achieve a unified business strategy.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.

- 5+ years of manufacturing, engineering, or operations experience in leadership roles.

- Proven ability to communicate complex operational concepts to all levels of leadership, from shop floor operators to executive stakeholders.

- Demonstrated track record of attracting, developing, and retaining high-performing, results-oriented teams.

- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally as required.

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Leadership
- Manufacturing
- Engineering
- Operations
- Communication
- Project Management
- Lean Manufacturing
- MES

### Nice to have
- Master’s Degree
- Battery cell manufacturing
- Electromechanical assembly

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