# Production Supervisor Tool & Die

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

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we are dedicated to designing, manufacturing, and selling high-quality vehicles that meet the diverse needs of our customers.

As a Production Supervisor Tool & Die, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of our production processes.

## Responsibilities

- Coach safety, quality, and productivity to ensure objectives are met through 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

- 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

- Basic administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents

- Coordination of Safety Operating System activities

- Lead skilled trades/die maintenance personnel to evaluate Die Readiness requirements

- Supervise preventative maintenance schedules, inspections, and repairs

- Coordinate and schedule manpower and materials to meet maintenance requirements

- Monitor day-to-day production processes

- Understand and apply expertise in draw die forming, maintenance of beads, trim steels, and pierce operations

- Coordinate major and minor die repairs

- Determine and correct root cause of related downtime issues

- Assist and teach die maintenance troubleshooting techniques

- Ensure start-up readiness for production

- Coordinate maintenance activities with other plant operations

- Identify and correct safety hazards and unsafe practices

## Qualifications

### Minimum Requirements

- Fundamental working knowledge of major automotive die forming

- Ability to work any shift, including rotating shifts and weekends

- High School Diploma

- 1-3 years of experience

- Ability to work independently with limited supervision

- Capable of assigning work to unionized hourly workforce and holding employees accountable

- Strong organizational and administrative skills

- Strong interpersonal skills and leadership behaviors

- Ability to multi-task

- Strong problem-solving and conflict management skills

- Demonstrated leadership in ONE FORD behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, team-building, and communication skills

### Preferred Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree or completion of Die Maker apprenticeship

- 3-5 years of automotive experience, preferably in Body shop/stamping/subassembly

- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles

- Knowledge of constraint management principles

- Microsoft Office knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook)

- Prior experience managing a unionized workforce

## Skills

### Required
- automotive die forming
- Kaizen Continuous Improvement
- problem resolution
- leadership
- communication
- team building
- conflict management
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- Lean Manufacturing
- constraint management
- Die Maker apprenticeship
- Body shop/stamping/subassembly experience
- unionized workforce management

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