Ford Motor Company

Team Manager-Maintenance

Ford Motor Company • $100K — $120K *
Ypsilanti, MI 48197In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Manufacturing Maintenance experience
  • Strong interfacing ability with plant personnel and management
  • Capable of presenting to plant management
  • Ability to teach Ford Production System principles
  • Experience in union negotiations
  • Competent in data-driven decision making
  • Excellent leadership and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Address Health & Safety concerns in the department
  • Lead data-driven maintenance processes to enhance quality metrics
  • Monitor production runs to resolve maintenance-related issues
  • Facilitate start-up and inter-shift meetings
  • Manage budgets and optimize maintenance activities
  • Coach subordinates to achieve departmental goals
  • Ensure adherence to Maintenance Operating System processes

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave programs
  • Adoption and fertility treatment reimbursement
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for continued education
  • Paid community service time off
  • Generous holiday schedule including time off between Christmas and New Year
  • Options for additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

We are taking our Maintenance Superintendents to the next level. These talented employees have the title of 'Team Manager - Maintenance' and they are the drivers of standardization and continuous improvement in the Ford Production System.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Safety
  • Address department Health & Safety concerns
  • Enforce department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards
  • Promote improved department safety metrics and provide resources for activities
  • Enforce safety process adherence for launch-related Pro-Tag and Arc Flash updates, Construction Service Safety audits/compliance checks, and inter-department Pre-Task Analyses

Quality
  • Lead data driven maintenance processes to improve quality metrics (e.g., higher FTT, less scrap, less contamination, and etc.)
  • Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions through the Global 4D or 8D process.

Delivery
  • Monitor production runs to insure they stay on schedule, and correct any maintenance-related problems that arise
  • Provide the resources and activities required to ensure problem free start-ups
  • Facilitate start-up and shift-to-shift meetings
  • Facilitate skilled trades understanding of constraint analysis and provide resources for activities to eliminate bottlenecks
  • Champion constraint analysis and coordinate activities to eliminate the bottlenecks

Cost
  • Lead project writing and the process of collecting and evaluating data in sound business cases
  • Manage to budgets
  • Set, prioritize and provide resources to control and improve Maintenance Cost Per Unit (MCPU)
  • Optimize maintenance activities to improve throughput and meet or beat budgets and production schedules
  • Implement material control (spare part inventory), repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews

People
  • Disseminate policy deployment, drive SQDCPME, and communicate departmental maintenance goals
  • Coach, counsel and teach subordinates to enhance the One Team goal
  • Lead and participate in production scheduling, staffing, procurement and maintenance of equipment, quality control, inventory control, and the coordination of production activities with those of other departments
  • Promote and support work groups; integrate skilled trades per contractual agreements
  • Create a team environment that is founded on accountability, teamwork, empowerment, and continuous improvement
  • Set and support Time & Data Management events related to the Maintenance Operating System and enforce attendance

Maintenance
  • Coordinate resources and activities to support ME organization launches within your area of responsibility to meet production schedules, budgetary limitations, and time constraints
  • Evaluate and deliver FTPM measurables
  • Maximize equipment effectiveness through a detailed, standardized, and prioritized preventive and predictive maintenance plan designed to improve productivity
  • Review and approve preventive maintenance activities and assess the effectiveness of those activities
  • Devise maintenance plans, strategies, and priorities to support the total department business plan; manage daily maintenance around production optimizing opportunities
  • Provide resources and support to maintenance activities and organize planning activities
  • Confirm and require adherence to Maintenance Operating System processes
  • Review status and progress of goals and objectives and require accountability

Environment
  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards


You'll have...
  • Education: High School Diploma or GED
  • Manufacturing Maintenance experience
  • Strong ability to interface with plant hourly, salaried personnel and plant management
  • Strong ability to present in front of plant management
  • Ability to teach Ford Production System principles
  • Union negotiations experience
  • Competent in the use of data for decision making
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a team
  • Excellent leadership skills with demonstrated ability to resolve diverse problems
  • Work well under pressure and to be able to work under crisis management when necessary
  • Ability to work and multi-task in fast paced environment
  • Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate leadership in One FORD (leadership) behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills


Qualifications

Even better, you may have...
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree:
  • Broad production experience
  • Lead Process Coach experience
  • 6-sigma designation preferred
  • Strong analytical skills and quick decision making capability preferred
  • Microsoft Office knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook)


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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