Ford Motor Company

Production Supervisor

Ford Motor Company$72K — $141K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

  • Coach safety, quality, and productivity to meet objectives via standardized work
  • Guide employees in delivering materials accurately and timely to production lines
  • Optimize throughput in line with budgetary and cost goals
  • Verify startup and close-out tasks are completed
  • Conduct daily checks and address concerns promptly
  • Perform periodic job observations and resolve abnormalities
  • Ensure work areas conform to organizational and safety standards
  • Foster a culture of respect and recognition among team members

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave options
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance
  • Paid time off for community service and generous holiday schedule
Full Job Description
Job Description

Production Supervisor

In this position...

The Production Supervisor position is a supervisory leadership role supported by on-the-job training, development, and opportunity for career progression. Production Supervisors are:
  • Resilient
  • Detail oriented
  • Ambitious
  • Demonstrate high integrity


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Coach Safety, Quality and Productivity to ensure objectives are met through following standardized work
  • Coach hourly employees to ensure the delivery of the right materials, at the right time, in the right quantities, in the right place to the production lines
  • Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives
  • Assure Startup & Close-out verification / confirmation tasks are completed
  • Conduct daily confirmations and confirm concerns are readily addressed and requirements are met
  • Perform Standardized Work including periodic job observations, Deep Knowledge, and timely resolution of abnormalities at the lowest level, to achieve objectives
  • Confirm work areas adhere to workplace organization, and workstations are free of debris and contamination
  • Ensure EOS standards are adhered to and identify additional opportunities
  • Coach and support Team Leaders to achieve objectives through standardized work
  • Coach, teach, and feedback on resolution of abnormalities and confirm closure of concerns
  • Support the Work Groups / Teams to ensure they have appropriate materials and supplies to maintain flow
  • Adhere to Time & Data Management to promote, support, and coach a continuous improvement mindset and activities in the team
  • Respect and encourage respect of all team members by my actions
  • Create a Zero Tolerance environment and reaffirm team members respect each other
  • Own working together, modeling the Ford values and expected behaviors
  • Ensure Work Group members are appropriately recognized for the accomplishments
  • Move between nights, days, evenings as needed
  • Work overtime as needed


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • 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


Required Behaviors
  • Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism in difficult and stressful situations
  • wo-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


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

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 6-7 - from $72,480 -$141,360

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

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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About Ford Motor Company

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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Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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