Ford Motor Company

Team Manager-Industrial Engr

Ford Motor Company • $100K — $120K *
Jackson, TN 38303In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering or related field
  • 3-5 years' experience in industrial engineering roles
  • Strong analytical skills for resolving issues
  • Flexibility to rotate roles within production or quality departments
  • Commitment to Quality Operating System and organizational standards
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities while achieving results
  • Experience with union relations and teamwork
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead efforts to improve ergonomics, safety, and production efficiency
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address staffing and ergonomic issues
  • Guide IEs and Continuous Improvement Specialists in productivity enhancement strategies
  • Identify and manage labor-cost reduction initiatives
  • Oversee manpower planning and weekly staffing strategy alignment
  • Support hiring activities in partnership with union representatives
  • Plan and implement operational changes to maximize efficiency

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave programs
  • Family building benefits, including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for personal and professional development
  • Active employee resource groups for community and support
  • Paid time off for community service and holidays
  • Options for additional vacation time beyond standard PTO
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

Lead IEs and support production to develop productivity proposals (rebalances, OLOT reduction, throughput improvements).

Responsibilities

What You'll Do...
  • Lead Industrial Engineering (IE) efforts to improve ergonomics, workplace safety, workstation setup, and production efficiency.
  • Partner with Production, Health and Safety, hourly employees, team leaders, and union or works council representatives to resolve job, staffing, and ergonomic concerns.
  • Lead and coach IEs and Continuous Improvement Specialists in developing and delivering productivity improvements, including line balancing, rebalancing, OLOT reduction, throughput gains, operator utilization, and increased value-added work.
  • Identify and lead headcount and labor-cost reduction initiatives; track hourly headcount changes with Global IE teams and publish monthly reports by area.
  • Manage plant and departmental manpower planning, including daily reporting, weekly roll analysis and reviews, staffing strategies, and alignment of training and versatility plans with workforce needs.
  • Support hiring and posting activities in partnership with union representatives.
  • Plan and implement workstation, allocation, mix, and line-speed changes, as well as plant and shop operating patterns that maximize efficiency.
  • Lead cycle-line layout development and future-model labor planning, ensuring layouts and labor allocations support safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency.
  • Guide time-study planning and execution, including MODAPTS, and provide IE training and support across the plant.
  • Promote continuous improvement and waste elimination through Kaizen, Six Sigma, and low-cost automation projects.
  • Represent the plant on the National Ergonomics Committee and lead plant safety and ergonomics initiatives.
  • Monitor monthly progress in VPOS and support the Finance Controller with labor-efficiency targets and monthly labor-cost reporting.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering or related field
  • Experience: 3-5 years' experience
  • Must possess the ability to analyze and resolve issues quickly through route cause analysis and drive change back to the production departments.
  • Must have the necessary skill set to have job placement flexibility and the expectation to rotate to various positions within the plant such as Production or Quality
  • Must display strong customer orientation with a commitment to upholding plant processes through strict adherence to the Quality Operating System.
  • Must demonstrate the ability to execute to achieve results, while organizing and managing multiple priorities
  • Must have a proven willingness to take a participatory approach to union relations and be a team player
  • Must have the ability to serve as a strong and confident technical mentor to the production organization (both hourly and salary)
  • Must have strong written and verbal communications skills


Even better, you may have...
  • MODAPTS Certification
  • GSPAS knowledge
  • Microsoft Office experience


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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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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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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