Senior Production Supervisor at Ford

What you'd actually do

Supervise, evaluate, and empower a team that produces manufactured products, and organize workflow to meet quality and daily productivity requirements

Ensure safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met through coaching standardized work, verifying lines are running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts

Drive to exceed personal/team/Company goals by holding self and team to high performance standards through servant leadership

Build strong interpersonal relationships with hourly team members, union, and management teams

Support peer team by training, coaching and developing newly hired and promoted Supervisors.

Skills

Required

High School Diploma or GED
2+ years of supervisory and / or manufacturing experience
Working knowledge in Microsoft: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Ability to in being able to work rotating shifts and hours

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
Strong mechanical background

In this position...

The Senior Production Supervisor position is a supervisory leadership role supported by on-the-job training, development, and opportunity for career progression. Senior Production Supervisors are:

· Resilient

· Detail oriented

· Ambitious

· Demonstrate high integrity

What you'll do...

· Supervise, evaluate, and empower a team that produces manufactured products, and organize workflow to meet quality and daily productivity requirements

· Ensure safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met through coaching standardized work, verifying lines are running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts

· Drive to exceed personal/team/Company goals by holding self and team to high performance standards through servant leadership

· Build strong interpersonal relationships with hourly team members, union, and management teams

· Support peer team by training, coaching and developing newly hired and promoted Supervisors.

· Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives.

You'll have...

· High School Diploma or GED

· 2+ years of supervisory and / or manufacturing experience

· Working knowledge in Microsoft: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

· Ability to in being able to work rotating shifts and hours

Required Behaviors…

· 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 applying innovative solutions with a customer first mindset

· Create a safety culture 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

Even better, you may 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

· Strong mechanical background

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

· Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

· Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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

· Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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