Maintenance Supervisor

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, MI +1 · Manufacturing

Supervisory role focused on plant maintenance and asset management within Ford's manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include leading skilled trades personnel, ensuring asset availability through preventative and corrective maintenance, and fostering a safety culture. Requires experience in manufacturing, supervisory leadership, and fundamental knowledge of PLC logic and controls.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create a safety culture and apply and implement workplace policies.
  2. Lead/ coach skilled trades/maintenance personnel in all aspects of asset management including but not limited to: asset availability (mean time to repair, mean time between failure), and preventative maintenance.
  3. Lead/coach skilled trades/maintenance personnel in efficiently addressing corrective maintenance issues.
  4. Build strong interpersonal relationships with hourly team members, union, and management teams.
  5. Communicate effectively with hourly team members, leaders, business partners and customers.

Skills

Required

  • High School Diploma or GED
  • 1+ years of supervisory and / or manufacturing experience
  • Working knowledge in Microsoft: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
  • Ability to work rotating shifts and hours, including nights and weekends
  • Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls
  • Mechanical aptitude

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Safety and quality experience
  • Maximo experience
  • Six Sigma: Black or Green Belt certified
  • Knowledge of constraint management principles
  • Prior experience managing a unionized workforce
  • Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls (Allen Bradley RS logix 5000)
  • Fundamental working knowledge of robotics (Fanuc).
  • Fundamental working knowledge of sealer, mastic, and adhesive dispensing systems (SCA / Atlas Copco).
  • Fundamental working knowledge of self-pierced riveting systems (Henrob).
  • Fundamental working knowledge of bolt / nut runner applications (Atlas Copco).

What the JD emphasized

  • Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls