Senior Maintenance Supervisor, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

About the role

At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.

Job Type

Full time

Work Type

On-site

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 that consistently makes high-quality products and meets or exceeds production targets. You will take ownership of team performance, addressing shortcomings proactively and celebrating successes.
• Strategic Focus & Problem Solving: Prioritize critical tasks and effectively allocate human resources to maximize efficiency. You will apply for a "Bias for Action," promptly and decisively addressing safety and quality issues to prevent larger problems. This includes identifying and analyzing problems, developing and implementing effective solutions, making timely and well-informed decisions, and adapting to changing circumstances.
• Team Leadership & Development: Embrace a servant leadership style, focusing on building high performing, winning teams and investing in their growth. You will foster a positive and collaborative work environment, motivating your team to achieve shared goals.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data and insights to strike down downtime and quality defects, driving quantifiable improvements in efficiency and quality. This includes meticulously tracking and reporting employee time and attendance, transforming raw data into actionable intelligence for strategic decision-making and 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. You will be uncompromisingly committed to quality, implementing and maintaining rigorous standards, and relentlessly pursuing excellence to eliminate defects and ensure exceptional product quality.
• Conflict Resolution & Interpersonal Relationships: Proactively address and mediate conflicts fairly and effectively, facilitating mutually acceptable solutions. This requires active listening, empathy, and the ability to de-escalate tense situations. You will build and maintain strong, positive working relationships with your team and all partners, including suppliers and union representatives, through transparent communication and a willingness to listen, fostering a psychologically safe environment.
• Accountability & Fairness: Champion accountability, managing both your own performance and that of the hourly workforce regarding processes and standards. You will ensure accountability, play fair, and meet conflict with decisive action.
• Maintenance Work Planning & Scheduling: Lead the detailed development, coordination, and control of maintenance and project work packages to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient execution, particularly during facility ramp-up and ongoing operations.
• Coordination & Data Management: Coordinate multi-discipline work planning activities across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & control (I&C), and facility workstreams. Interface with engineering, operations, and other relevant teams to validate scope, field conditions, and ensure work readiness. Ensure accurate data entry and status updates in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) (e.g., Maximo) to support real-time schedule forecasting, outage coordination, and KPI reporting. Generate comprehensive reports and metrics on planning progress, schedule compliance, and work package readiness for leadership and stakeholders.
• Compliance & Operational Support: Apply formal change management protocols to address scope, schedule, or resource deviations while maintaining configuration control. Ensure strict adherence to all government, industry, and Ford corporate safety, health, environmental, and quality standards throughout all planning activities. Synchronize resources and activities required for problem-free equipment start-ups and shutdowns.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 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

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of project controls, including cost estimation, earned value, scheduling logic, and risk mitigation strategies
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing principles, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and FMEA processes
• Prior experience in a facility start-up or new equipment commissioning environment
• Six Sigma: Black or Green Belt certified
• Knowledge of constraint management principles

Skills

• Leadership
• Problem-solving
• Project management
• Teamwork
• Data analysis
• Quality assurance
• Conflict resolution
• Planning and scheduling
• Compliance and operational support

Benefits

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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

Pay

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

Schedule

Immediate