Maintenance Supervisor
About the role
As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love. This position is a critical leadership role where you'll have the power to shape culture, drive performance, and directly impact the quality and efficiency of our operations.
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 to consistently produce high-quality products and meet or exceed production targets. Take ownership of team performance, addressing shortcomings proactively and celebrating successes.
- Strategic Focus & Problem Solving: Prioritize critical tasks and allocate human resources to maximize efficiency. Apply a "Bias for Action" by promptly addressing safety and quality issues to prevent larger problems. Identify and analyze problems, develop and implement solutions, make timely decisions, and adapt to changing circumstances.
- Team Leadership & Development: Embrace a servant leadership style, focusing on building high-performing teams and investing in their growth. Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, motivating your team to achieve shared goals.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data and insights to reduce downtime and quality defects, driving quantifiable improvements in efficiency and quality. Track and report employee time and attendance, transforming data into actionable intelligence for continuous improvement.
- Continuous Improvement & Quality Assurance: Maintain a relentless focus on identifying and eliminating inefficiencies, improving processes, and driving innovation to enhance productivity, quality, and safety. Implement and maintain rigorous quality standards to eliminate defects and ensure exceptional product quality.
- Conflict Resolution & Interpersonal Relationships: Proactively address and mediate conflicts fairly, facilitating mutually acceptable solutions. Build and maintain strong, positive working relationships with your team, suppliers, and union representatives through transparent communication and active listening.
- Accountability & Fairness: Champion accountability for both your own performance and that of the hourly workforce regarding processes and standards. Ensure fairness and meet conflict with decisive action.
- Collaboration: Actively listen to and value the perspectives of all team members and other department stakeholders. Partner with team members, the union, and management to continuously improve operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 3–7+ years of supervisory, manufacturing, military, or other relevant experience.
- Ability to work rotating shifts and hours, including nights and weekends.
- Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Lean / Six Sigma methodology and/or Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP).
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
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 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.
Pay
This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $84,480 to $141,360.
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