Production Supervisor

Ford • Flat Rock, MI

21d • $86,600 - $144,900 • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Supervisor is a critical leadership role that connects strategic goals with daily manufacturing execution. The supervisor leads an hourly team, shapes workplace culture, and supports operational performance, product quality, and efficiency. The role emphasizes safety, servant leadership, accountability, data-informed decisions, continuous improvement, conflict resolution, and collaboration with team members, union representatives, management, suppliers, and other stakeholders. The position requires the ability to work rotating shifts and hours, including nights and weekends.

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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Champion workplace safety by enforcing regulations and fostering a vigilant safety culture.
• Lead and direct hourly employees to produce high-quality products and meet or exceed production targets; own team performance, address shortcomings, and recognize successes.
• Prioritize tasks and allocate human resources to maximize efficiency; promptly address safety and quality issues, analyze problems, implement solutions, make timely decisions, and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Build high-performing teams, invest in employee growth, and foster a positive, collaborative work environment.
• Use data and insights to reduce downtime and quality defects, improve efficiency and quality, and track and report employee time and attendance.
• Identify and eliminate inefficiencies, improve processes, and drive innovation to enhance productivity, quality, and safety.
• Implement and maintain rigorous quality standards and pursue defect-free product quality.
• Address and mediate conflicts fairly and effectively through active listening, empathy, and de-escalation; build positive working relationships through transparent communication.
• Manage personal and hourly workforce accountability for processes and standards, acting fairly and decisively.
• Listen to and value team and stakeholder perspectives; partner with employees, the union, and management on continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup child care.
• 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: Manager