Ford Motor Company

Senior Production Supervisor - Quality

Ford Motor Company$99K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • 3-5 years of supervisory or manufacturing experience in Quality
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
  • Ability to work rotating shifts, including nights and weekends
  • Proficient in problem-solving methodologies, including G8D and Six Sigma
  • Skilled in reading technical prints and the Ford Docman system
  • Strong communication skills with an emphasis on active listening
  • Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement and customer-focused thinking
  • Ability to enforce workplace safety policies and administer collective bargaining agreements
  • Experience managing a unionized workforce is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Lead incoming Quality team members to address Supplier Quality Concerns
  • Oversee the Pre-Production Approval Process team ensuring timely trial runs
  • Collaborate with Production Areas and Suppliers to resolve daily quality issues
  • Track Supplier Concerns and ensure effective closure processes
  • Coordinate chargebacks and manage costs associated with quality issues
  • Ensure timely disposition of rejected components within 30 days
  • Facilitate communication regarding quality concerns using heat maps

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance for continued education
  • Active employee resource groups for support and networking
  • Paid time off for community service and a generous holiday schedule
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Lead the Incoming Quality team members across all shifts, both salary and hourly, to drive Supplier Quality Concerns, ensure Chargebacks are submitted, and Containment actions are put in place to cut quality concerns off and protect our customers and production areas.

Lead the Pre-Production Approval Process (PPAP) hourly team members across all shifts, to ensure trial runs are conducted and work with MP&L department on approval process. Support the plant's Contamination Reduction Strategic plan.

Represent Quality department, working with the Production Areas, STA, and Suppliers on a daily basis.

Incoming Quality
  • Track Supplier Concerns and GSAR QR's to closure, including 8D completion
  • Meet with Suppliers to ensure proper closure for quality concerns.
  • Work with Production areas and review supplier parts on red tables, ensuring IQ team is informed of latest issues
  • Develop a process to review supplier components that are at high risk for quality defects that result in both FTT and Customer Concerns (VO Repairs/Pull/Warranty Claims).
  • Coordinate with team on form 1 chargebacks, ensuring costs associated with off-standards, sorting, etc are properly captured
  • Ensure components placed on reject are dispositioned in timely manner, before 30 day window
  • Work with MP&L Material Handling to ensure rejected components are correctly handled and contained.
  • Manage Containment crib and CMMS open rejects
  • Lead communication of Quality Concerns to plant floor level, ZCC boards, utilizing heat maps.

PPAP
  • Ensure PPAP Functional trials of supplied parts are conducted in timely manner.
  • Communicate with MP&L/Change Control about upcoming product / process changes and cascade to the affected work teams to ensure alignment and support weekly Change Control Meeting
  • Maintain PPAP Crib inventory, and facilitate with MP&L department to get approved parts moved
  • Ensure dock audits are coordinated for new product launch engines and issue PSW to Vehicle Operations as necessary

Contamination Reduction Strategic Plan
  • Support the plant's Internal Audits related to Contamination Investigations
  • Participate in review of Contamination test results at CEP and externally
  • Participate in review of contamination from in-process failures (OCLT, CCLT, other leak tests)
  • Maintain and update Contamination Tracking deck/library
  • Facilitate communication across departments within the plant to address contamination and resolution of issues.
  • Work with plant personnel and/or suppliers to ensure timely response to identified contamination concerns
  • Support internal lab with reviews of borescope findings and contamination reviews


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • 3-5 years of supervisory and / or manufacturing experience within Quality.
  • Working knowledge in Microsoft: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
  • Ability to work rotating shifts and hours, including nights and weekends
  • Experience with problem solving skills, G8D, 5-why, Six Sigma
  • Experience with reading prints and Ford Docman system
  • 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, 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
  • Capable of assigning work to unionized hourly workforce and holding employees accountable for following processes pertaining to daily work assignments in terms safety, quality, and throughput


Even better, you may have...
  • Bachelors Degree
  • Safety and Quality experience preferred
  • Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles
  • Knowledge of constraint management principles
  • Prior experience managing a unionized work force
  • 3D model experience is a plus


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 of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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 $99,100-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

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.

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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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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