Production Supervisor Tool & Die

About the role

At Ford Motor Company, we design, manufacture, and sell high-quality vehicles that meet the diverse needs of our customers. This role focuses on coaching safety, quality, and productivity while optimizing throughput and supporting continuous improvement initiatives in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Coach safety, quality, and productivity to ensure objectives are met through following standardized work.
• Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives.
• Support Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) and coach problem resolution to the lowest level.
• Meet FTT, inventory, cost, scrap, supply, and tooling expense targets.
• Build Team Leader and Team Member capability and create a conducive work environment for team responsibilities.
• Administer supervisory responsibilities and documents.
• Coordinate Safety Operating System activities, including overhead safety, lifting, rigging, and Energy Control and Lockout procedures.
• Lead skilled trades/die maintenance personnel to evaluate Die Readiness requirements for maintaining and improving production yields, output, and uptime.
• Supervise preventative maintenance schedules, inspections, and repairs to minimize downtime.
• Coordinate and schedule manpower and materials to meet maintenance requirements and minimize downtime.
• Monitor day-to-day production processes, including draw panel formability, last hit process, and contamination investigation.
• Apply expertise in draw die forming, maintenance of beads, trim steels, and pierce operations.
• Coordinate major and minor die repairs and determine root causes of downtime issues.
• Assist and teach die maintenance troubleshooting techniques to improve mean time between failure and mean time to repair.
• Ensure start-up readiness for production and coordinate maintenance activities with other plant operations.
• Identify and correct safety hazards and unsafe practices.
• Assign work to unionized hourly workforce and hold employees accountable for following processes related to safety, quality, and throughput.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Fundamental working knowledge of major automotive die forming.
• Ability to work any shift, including rotating shifts and weekends.
• High School Diploma.
• 1 to 3 years of experience.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Capability to assign work to a unionized hourly workforce and hold employees accountable for daily work assignments.

Skills

• 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, teambuilding, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or completion of Die Maker apprenticeship.
• 3-5 years of automotive experience.
• Body shop/stamping/subassembly experience.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.
• Knowledge of constraint management principles.
• Microsoft Office knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook).
• Prior experience managing a unionized workforce.