Portfolio Maintenance & Operations Leader

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, MI +1 · Office of General Counsel

This role focuses on managing and improving a maintenance and operations platform for Ford's real estate portfolio, ensuring efficient and safe operations, analyzing performance data, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. It involves leading teams of facility managers, skilled trades, and suppliers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop, maintain and refine scopes of work, operations plans, and innovative tools that ensure the efficient and consistent operation of the portfolio while achieving safety, quality, cost, and performance metrics.
  2. Lead skilled trades maintenance and project teams in scheduling, staffing, procurement, delivery and maintenance of workplaces and equipment within the confines of budget and timing.
  3. Analyze maintenance and performance data sets to drive accountability, identify constraints, and scale solutions that improve quality, efficiency and cost.
  4. Collaborate with real estate partners, skill teams, and employees to understand business priorities, feedback, and future opportunities; translate into actionable plans, messaging, and analysis.
  5. Ensure the maintenance organization complies with all regulatory standards and industry best practices.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
  • 5+ years of experience in maintenance and engineering
  • Demonstrated excellence in integrated facility management (IFM), asset management, workforce planning, and customer service
  • Excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, empower and develop employees
  • Strong analytical, problem solving, and organization skills

Nice to have

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Knowledge of lean manufacturing and constraint management principles.
  • Safety and Quality experience.
  • Prior experience leading a unionized work force.

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory standards