Maintenance Supervisor (LAP)

Ford Motor Company • Louisville, KY

1d • $86,600 - $144,900 • Onsite

About The Position

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead an hourly team and connect strategic goals with daily execution. This is a leadership role focused on shaping workplace culture, improving performance, and affecting the quality and efficiency of operations. The supervisor is expected to foster a safe, collaborative environment, build a high-performing team, and hold employees accountable to processes and standards.

The position emphasizes operational excellence, data-driven decisions, problem-solving, continuous improvement, and quality assurance. The supervisor will address safety and quality issues promptly, use data to reduce downtime and defects, track employee time and attendance, allocate resources effectively, resolve conflicts, and build productive relationships with team members, suppliers, union representatives, and management.

The role requires rotating shifts and hours, including nights and weekends. Ford offers a range of benefits, including medical, dental, and prescription coverage, family-care support, parental leave, family-building assistance, employee and family vehicle discounts, tuition assistance, paid holidays, and paid time off. The salary grade is 7, with a stated range of $86,600 to $144,900. Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 3–7+ years of supervisory, manufacturing, military, or other relevant experience.
• Ability to work rotating shifts and hours, including nights and weekends.
• Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Lean / Six Sigma methodology and/or Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP).

Responsibilities

• Lead a dedicated hourly team and foster an environment where employees can perform effectively and feel empowered.
• Champion workplace safety by enforcing regulations proactively and promoting vigilance.
• Lead employees to produce high-quality products and meet or exceed production targets; monitor team performance, address shortcomings, and recognize successes.
• Prioritize tasks and allocate human resources to maximize efficiency.
• Identify and analyze problems, develop and implement solutions, make timely decisions, and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Address safety and quality issues promptly to prevent larger problems.
• Build high-performing teams, invest in employee development, and foster a positive, collaborative work environment.
• Use data and insights to reduce downtime and quality defects and improve efficiency and quality.
• Track and report employee time and attendance, and use the resulting information to support decisions and continuous improvement.
• Identify and eliminate inefficiencies, improve processes, and drive innovation to enhance productivity, quality, and safety.
• Implement and maintain quality standards and work to eliminate defects.
• Address and mediate conflicts fairly, using active listening, empathy, and de-escalation.
• Build positive working relationships with the team, suppliers, union representatives, and other partners through transparent communication.
• Hold self and hourly employees accountable for processes and standards, and address conflicts decisively.
• Listen to and value team members and stakeholders, partnering with the team, union, and management on continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up childcare.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level