# Senior Production Supervisor

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Sterling Heights
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $96,720-$162,120
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you will lead transformation on the forefront as a Senior Production Supervisor. This isn't just a supervisory role; it's a critical leadership position where you'll have the power to shape culture, drive performance, and directly impact the quality and efficiency of our operations.

As a Senior Production Supervisor, you are the vital link between strategic goals and daily execution. You'll be leading a dedicated hourly team, fostering an environment where they can do their best work and feel empowered.

Responsibilities:

- Act as a champion of workplace safety, proactively enforcing regulations and fostering a culture of vigilance

- Lead and direct a team of employees that consistently makes high-quality products and meets or exceeds production targets

- Prioritize critical tasks and effectively allocate human resources to maximize efficiency

- Apply for a 'Bias for Action,' promptly and decisively addressing safety and quality issues to prevent larger problems

- Identify and analyze problems, develop and implement effective solutions, make timely and well-informed decisions, and adapt to changing circumstances

- Embrace a servant leadership style, focusing on building high-performing, winning teams and investing in their growth

- Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, motivating your team to achieve shared goals

- Utilize data and insights to strike down downtime and quality defects, driving quantifiable improvements in efficiency and quality

- Maintain a relentless focus on identifying and eliminating inefficiencies, improving processes, and driving innovation to enhance productivity, quality, and safety

- Champion accountability, managing both your own performance and that of the hourly workforce regarding processes and standards

- Actively listen to and value the perspectives of all team members and other department stakeholders

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent 7+ years of supervisory, manufacturing, military, or other relevant experience

- Proven track record of leading large-scale process improvements or cultural shifts

- Ability to work rotating shifts/hours, including nights and weekends specifically 3rd shift

Even better, you may have:

- Experience with Lean / Six Sigma methodology

- Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP) Experience or equivalent

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

- 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, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $96,720-$162,120.

## Skills

### Required
- Lean / Six Sigma methodology
- Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP)
- Servant leadership
- Data analysis
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Communication
- Team leadership
- Quality assurance
- Safety protocols