Ford Motor Company

Production Supervisor-MP&L

Ford Motor Company$72K — $141K *
Wayne, MI 48184In-Person
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
  • Willingness to work rotating shifts, including nights and weekends
  • Strong professionalism in high-pressure situations
  • Effective communicator who actively listens to team members and stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Supervise and empower an hourly team in product manufacturing and manage workflow
  • Ensure safety and productivity through coaching and process verification
  • Strive to exceed team and company performance goals with a focus on servant leadership
  • Cultivate strong relationships with team members, union, and management
  • Promote continuous improvement with innovative, customer-first solutions
  • Establish and enforce a culture of safety and apply workplace policies
  • Administer the collective bargaining agreement consistently

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and leave programs
  • Family building benefits, including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Discount programs for vehicles for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups for support and networking
  • Paid time off for community service involvement
  • Generous holiday schedule, including the week between Christmas and New Year
  • Options for additional vacation time through a purchase system
Full Job Description
Job Description

At Ford Motor Company, we are taking our Material Planning & Logistics Supervisors to the next level. These talented employees have the title of "Process Coach - MP&L" and are the drivers of standardization and continuous improvement in the Ford Production System. Material Planning & Logistics teams work to provide a synchronous flow of materials to customers at an affordable cost.

In this position...

You will supervise and lead 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...
  • Supervise, evaluate, and empower an hourly 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, and company goals by holding self & team to high performance standards through servant leadership
  • Build strong interpersonal relationships with hourly team members, union, and management teams
  • Foster a commitment 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


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
  • Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism in difficult and stressful situations
  • Demonstrated communicator who actively listens to hourly team members, leaders, business partners and customers


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 or salary grade 7 and ranges 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.

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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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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