Production Supervisor

Ford Motor Company • Flat Rock, MI

21d • $86,600 - $144,900 • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Supervisor is a critical leadership role connecting strategic goals with daily execution. The supervisor leads an hourly manufacturing team, shapes workplace culture, and drives the safety, quality, efficiency, and performance of operations. The role emphasizes servant leadership, accountability, collaboration, data-informed decisions, problem solving, and continuous improvement. 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 and/or Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP).

Responsibilities

• Champion workplace safety by enforcing regulations and fostering a culture of vigilance.
• Lead and direct employees to produce high-quality products and meet or exceed production targets; monitor team performance, address shortcomings, and recognize successes.
• Prioritize critical tasks and allocate human resources to maximize efficiency.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve safety, quality, and operational problems promptly; make timely decisions and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Build high-performing teams, support employee growth, and foster a positive, collaborative work environment.
• Use data to reduce downtime and quality defects and improve efficiency and quality; track and report employee time and attendance and turn data into actionable insights.
• Identify and eliminate inefficiencies, improve processes, and drive innovation in productivity, quality, and safety.
• Implement and maintain rigorous quality standards and pursue defect reduction and exceptional product quality.
• Address and mediate conflicts fairly, listen actively, de-escalate tense situations, and build positive working relationships with employees, suppliers, union representatives, and other partners.
• Promote accountability for personal and hourly workforce performance and adherence to processes and standards.
• Collaborate with team members, the union, management, and other department stakeholders to pursue 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.
• Established and active 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