# MOS Maintenance Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Sterling Heights
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Leadership salary grade 6
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this pivotal leadership role, you will lead our newly restructured maintenance organization and drive the Ford Maintenance Operating System (MOS) and Lean Maturity in Maintenance to world-class levels. As the Maintenance Manager, you will oversee the Maintenance Control Center (MCC) and Business Control Center (BCC), ensuring 100% accuracy of the asset registry and driving constraint management processes to eliminate bottlenecks. You will also be responsible for driving the transition from reactive to proactive maintenance, achieving a World Class PM/CM ratio, and ensuring 100% completion of PMs for constraint assets.

Key responsibilities include:

- Organizing and developing a multi-layered maintenance team, including Senior Production Supervisors and Skilled Trade teams, fostering a culture of technical ownership and continuous improvement.

- Executing the strategy to move the plant toward Level 3 "Cultural" maturity across all LMM criteria: Operational Excellence, PM/PD Tasks, Loss Mitigation, Proactive Maintenance, and Reliability Leadership.

- Bamboo BBQ (Back-up, By-pass, Quick Recovery) processes, managing critical spare parts inventory, and ensuring "single-path" assets have verified backup strategies.

- Championing the use of predictive tools (Ultrasound, Infrared, Vibration Analysis) and ensuring they account for at least 35% of all proactive maintenance performed.

- Leading the Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) to ensure more than 95% of failed components are processed and analyzed for root cause.

- Utilizing 4D investigations, DMAIC, and Kaizen to reduce emergency work orders and improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

- Managing multi-million dollar maintenance budgets and driving SQCDMME (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Morale, Maintenance, Environment) targets.

Requirements include:

- High School Diploma, GED, College Diploma or Trade Certificate in a relevant field.

- 5+ years of experience in maintenance leadership within a large-scale manufacturing environment.

- Proven experience leading large, unionized skilled trades workforces.

- In-depth knowledge of the Ford Production System (FPS) or equivalent Lean Manufacturing systems.

- Strong working knowledge of Maintenance Operating Systems (MOS).

- Demonstrated ability to lead, empower, and develop multi-level leadership teams.

- Expertise in constraint management and bottleneck analysis.

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into shop-floor actions.

Preferred qualifications include:

- Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, or related field).

- Deep understanding of the MOS Lean Maturity Model (LMM) and a track record of improving maturity levels.

- Advanced knowledge of FTPM (Ford Total Productive Maintenance) and EJP (Enterprise Job Plans).

- Experience with Crib Modernization and digital maintenance management systems (e.g., Maximo).

- Proficiency in data analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau) to monitor MTTR, MTBF, and OEE.

- Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

- Experience implementing IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things) for predictive maintenance.

- Demonstrated ability to manage change within a new organizational structure.

- Strategic business acumen with the ability to connect maintenance reliability to total cost per unit and plant competitiveness.

## Skills

### Required
- Maintenance Operating Systems (MOS)
- Lean Manufacturing
- Constraint Management
- Bottleneck Analysis
- Data Analytics
- Predictive Maintenance
- FRACAS
- Kaizen
- SQCDMME

### Nice to have
- Ford Production System (FPS)
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Enterprise Job Plans (EJP)
- Crib Modernization
- Digital Maintenance Management Systems
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt
- IIOT
- Strategic Business Acumen

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