Production Supervisor

Ford Ford · Auto · Sterling Heights, MI +1 · Manufacturing

Supervise an hourly team in a manufacturing environment, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met. This role involves coaching, workflow organization, and building relationships with team members and management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Supervise, evaluate, and empower an hourly team that produces manufactured products, and organize workflow to meet quality and daily productivity requirements
  2. Ensure safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met through coaching standardized work, verifying lines are running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts
  3. Drive to exceed personal, team, Company goals by holding self & team to high performance standards through servant leadership
  4. Build strong interpersonal relationships with hourly team members, union, and management teams

Skills

Required

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

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Safety and quality experience
  • Six Sigma: Black or Green Belt certified
  • Knowledge of constraint management principles
  • Prior experience managing a unionized workforce

What the JD emphasized

  • Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism in difficult and stressful situations
  • Two-way communicator who actively listens to hourly team members, leaders, business partners and customers
  • Highly committed to continuous improvement, while applying innovative solutions with a customer first mindset
  • Create a culture of safety and apply and implement workplace policies
  • Administer the CBA (collective bargaining agreement) consistently and effectively
  • Values different opinions & is open to ideas & perspectives from others