Ford Motor Company

MOS Maintenance Manager

Ford Motor Company$100K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma, GED, College Diploma, or Trade Certificate in a relevant field.
  • 5+ years of maintenance leadership experience in large-scale manufacturing.
  • Proven track record in leading large, unionized skilled trades workforces.
  • In-depth knowledge of Ford Production System (FPS) or similar Lean Manufacturing systems.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a multi-layered maintenance team fostering a culture of technical ownership and continuous improvement.
  • Execute strategies to enhance plant maintenance maturity across key operational criteria.
  • Oversee Maintenance and Business Control Centers ensuring asset registry accuracy and efficient management of bottlenecks.
  • Drive the transition toward proactive maintenance and achieve optimal PM/CM ratios.
  • Implement BBQ processes for effective loss mitigation and critical spare parts inventory management.
  • Champion predictive maintenance tools for increased effectiveness in maintenance operations.
  • Lead the FRACAS process ensuring comprehensive root cause analysis of component failures.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care and parental leave options.
  • Family building support including adoption and fertility treatment reimbursement.
  • Employee vehicle discounts and management lease options.
  • Tuition assistance for educational advancement.
  • Opportunities for community service time off and generous holiday schedules.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • As the Maintenance Manager, you will lead our maintenance organization and will be the primary architect of maintenance excellence, ensuring our equipment reliability supports the high-speed demands of our manufacturing environment.


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Organizational Leadership: Lead and develop a multi-layered maintenance team, including Senior Production Supervisors and Skilled Trade teams, fostering a culture of technical ownership and continuous improvement.
  • LMM Maturity Drive: Execute the strategy to move the plant toward Level 3 "Cultural" maturity across all LMM criteria: Operational Excellence, PM/PD Tasks, Loss Mitigation, Proactive Maintenance, and Reliability Leadership.
  • Operational Excellence: Oversee the Maintenance Control Center (MCC) and Business Control Center (BCC). Ensure 100% accuracy of the asset registry and drive constraint management processes to eliminate bottlenecks.
  • Maintenance Strategy: Drive the transition from reactive to proactive maintenance. Achieve a World Class PM/CM ratio (target 6:1) and ensure 100% completion of PMs for constraint assets.
  • Loss Mitigation (MTTR): Implement and sustain BBQ (Back-up, By-pass, Quick Recovery) processes. Manage critical spare parts inventory and ensure "single-path" assets have verified backup strategies.
  • Proactive Maintenance & Tools: Champion the use of predictive tools (Ultrasound, Infrared, Vibration Analysis) and ensure they account for at least 35% of all proactive maintenance performed.
  • FRACAS Management: Lead the Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) to ensure more than 95% of failed components are processed and analyzed for root cause.
  • Continuous Improvement: Utilize 4D investigations, DMAIC, and Kaizen to reduce emergency work orders and improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
  • Budget & Safety: Manage multi-million dollar maintenance budgets and drive SQCDMME (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Morale, Maintenance, Environment) targets.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Education: High School Diploma, GED, College Diploma or Trade Certificate in a relevant field.
  • Experience:
    • 5+ years of experience in maintenance leadership within a large-scale manufacturing environment.
    • Proven experience leading large, unionized skilled trades workforces.
    • In-depth knowledge of the Ford Production System (FPS) or equivalent Lean Manufacturing systems.
  • Skills:
    • Strong working knowledge of Maintenance Operating Systems (MOS).
    • Demonstrated ability to lead, empower, and develop multi-level leadership teams.
    • Expertise in constraint management and bottleneck analysis.
    • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into shop-floor actions.


Even better, you may have...
  • Education: Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, or related field).
  • Technical / Operational Skills:
    • Deep understanding of the MOS Lean Maturity Model (LMM) and a track record of improving maturity levels.
    • Advanced knowledge of FTPM (Ford Total Productive Maintenance) and EJP (Enterprise Job Plans).
    • Experience with Crib Modernization and digital maintenance management systems (e.g., Maximo).
    • Proficiency in data analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau) to monitor MTTR, MTBF, and OEE.
  • Continuous Improvement / Lean:
    • Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
    • Experience implementing IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things) for predictive maintenance.
  • Leadership & Strategic Capability:
    • Demonstrated ability to manage change within a new organizational structure.
    • Strategic business acumen with the ability to connect maintenance reliability to total cost per unit and plant competitiveness.


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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6NonHTHD

This position is a leadership salary grade 6.

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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