Ford Motor Company

Maintenance Supervisor

Ford Motor Company$86K — $144K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent work experience.
  • At least five years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing or related environment.
  • Experience in maintenance leadership or supervision with increasing responsibility.
  • Strong knowledge of mechanical systems and equipment troubleshooting.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Coach and support maintenance team to achieve performance objectives.
  • Promote and ensure compliance with safety policies and regulations.
  • Monitor equipment performance to minimize downtime and optimize throughput.
  • Act as a first responder to maintenance-related issues and provide operational support.
  • Facilitate continuous improvement activities and coach problem-solving efforts.
  • Strengthen capabilities of team members through coaching and feedback.
  • Drive accountability for maintenance processes and operational standards.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care options and parental leave programs.
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
  • Tuition assistance for continued education.
  • Generous paid time off for community service and holidays.
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and families.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
We're looking for leaders who will lead transformation on the forefront. This isn't just a supervisory role; it's a critical leadership position where you'll have the power to shape culture, drive performance, and directly impact the quality and efficiency of our operations.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Coach and support maintenance team members to achieve safety, quality, productivity, and reliability objectives through adherence to standardized work practices.
  • Lead by example in promoting a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with safety policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
  • Monitor equipment performance and maintenance processes to optimize throughput, minimize downtime, and support cost objectives.
  • Serve as a first responder to maintenance-related ANDON calls and provide secondary support for operational issues.
  • Conduct process confirmations to verify work is being performed safely, efficiently, and according to established standards.
  • Support and facilitate continuous improvement (Kaizen) activities and coach problem-solving efforts to the lowest appropriate level within the organization.
  • Develop and strengthen team member and team leader capabilities through coaching, training, mentoring, and performance feedback.
  • Drive accountability for adherence to maintenance processes, work standards, and operational expectations.
  • Support achievement of key performance metrics, including First Time Through (FTT), inventory, downtime, cost, scrap, tooling, and maintenance expense targets.
  • Create and maintain a positive work environment that promotes teamwork, engagement, and employee development.
  • Assign and coordinate work activities for hourly maintenance personnel while ensuring alignment with safety, quality, and production requirements.
  • Maintain required administrative records, reports, and documentation related to maintenance operations and personnel activities.
  • Collaborate with production, engineering, quality, and other support functions to resolve equipment and process-related issues.
  • Utilize data and maintenance performance metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and implement corrective actions.
  • Demonstrate strong organizational, communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • Work effectively with minimal supervision while managing multiple priorities and changing business demands.
  • Support flexible scheduling requirements, including shift rotation, off-shift support, weekends, and overtime as needed.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent work experience.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing, industrial, automotive, or related environment.
  • Demonstrated experience in maintenance leadership, supervision, management, or progressive maintenance roles with increasing responsibility.
  • Strong knowledge of mechanical systems, equipment troubleshooting, and maintenance processes.
  • Experience leading teams, coordinating work activities, and driving accountability for safety, quality, and productivity objectives.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
  • Ability to work independently and effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to work any shift, including rotating shifts, weekends, and overtime as required.
Even better, you may have...
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related field.
  • Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Electrical, or Reliability Engineering background.
  • Previous experience as a Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Process Coach, or similar maintenance leadership role.
  • Experience in automotive manufacturing.
  • Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement (Kaizen), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and reliability-centered maintenance principles.
  • Experience with safety systems, quality systems, root cause analysis, and constraint management.
  • Proven ability to coach, mentor, and develop maintenance employees while driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
  • Demonstrated leadership behaviors with strong interpersonal, team-building, and cross-functional collaboration skills.


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 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.

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.

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Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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183,000 employees
Market Cap
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Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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