Senior Maintenance Supervisor, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

Ford • Marshall, MI

4d • $96,720 - $162,120 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Maintenance Supervisor, you are the vital link between strategic goals and daily execution. You'll be leading a dedicated hourly team, fostering an environment where they can do their best work and feel empowered. This role involves championing workplace safety, driving operational excellence, and utilizing data-driven decision-making to improve efficiency and quality. You will also focus on team leadership and development, continuous improvement, quality assurance, conflict resolution, and maintaining accountability. The role includes leading the planning and scheduling of maintenance and project work packages, coordinating multi-discipline activities, and ensuring compliance with all safety, health, environmental, and quality standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 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
• Strong working knowledge and proficiency with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) (e.g., Maximo, SAP PM, any maintenance scheduling) is essential.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, schematics, and equipment manuals
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Minimum of 7-10 years of progressive experience in maintenance work planning within a heavy industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience in a battery cell manufacturing facility or a similar highly automated process industry.
• Strong knowledge of project controls, including cost estimation, earned value, scheduling logic, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing principles, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and FMEA processes.
• Prior experience in a facility start-up or new equipment commissioning environment.
• Knowledge of constraint management principles.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial) or a related technical field is nice to have
• Experience with Lean / Six Sigma methodology and / or Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP) Experience
• Six Sigma: Black or Green Belt certified.

Responsibilities

• Act as a champion of workplace safety, proactively enforcing regulations and fostering a culture of vigilance.
• Lead and direct a team of employees that consistently makes high-quality products and meets or exceeds production targets.
• Take ownership of team performance, addressing shortcomings proactively and celebrating successes.
• Prioritize critical tasks and effectively allocate human resources to maximize efficiency.
• Apply a "Bias for Action," promptly and decisively addressing safety and quality issues to prevent larger problems.
• Identify and analyze problems, develop and implement effective solutions, make timely and well-informed decisions, and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Embrace a servant leadership style, focusing on building high performing, winning teams and investing in their growth.
• Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, motivating your team to achieve shared goals.
• Utilize data and insights to strike down downtime and quality defects, driving quantifiable improvements in efficiency and quality.
• Meticulously track and report employee time and attendance, transforming raw data into actionable intelligence for strategic decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Maintain a relentless focus on identifying and eliminating inefficiencies, improving processes, and driving innovation to enhance productivity, quality, and safety.
• Be uncompromisingly committed to quality, implementing and maintaining rigorous standards, and relentlessly pursuing excellence to eliminate defects and ensure exceptional product quality.
• Proactively address and mediate conflicts fairly and effectively, facilitating mutually acceptable solutions.
• Build and maintain strong, positive working relationships with your team and all partners, including suppliers and union representatives, through transparent communication and a willingness to listen, fostering a psychologically safe environment.
• Champion accountability, managing both your own performance and that of the hourly workforce regarding processes and standards.
• Ensure accountability, play fair, and meet conflict with decisive action.
• Lead the detailed development, coordination, and control of maintenance and project work packages to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient execution, particularly during facility ramp-up and ongoing operations.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules for preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities, including weekend and shutdown plans, utilizing advanced planning tools (e.g., Primavera P6, Maximo).
• Create comprehensive work packages detailing procedures, permits, required materials, resource allocation, and craft-specific task sequences.
• Conduct field walkdowns to confirm job scope, work boundaries, safety conditions, and material readiness, ensuring plans are executable and align with plant procedures.
• Coordinate multi-discipline work planning activities across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & control (I&C), and facility workstreams.
• Interface with engineering, operations, and other relevant teams to validate scope, field conditions, and ensure work readiness.
• Ensure accurate data entry and status updates in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) (e.g., Maximo) to support real-time schedule forecasting, outage coordination, and KPI reporting.
• Generate comprehensive reports and metrics on planning progress, schedule compliance, and work package readiness for leadership and stakeholders.
• Apply formal change management protocols to address scope, schedule, or resource deviations while maintaining configuration control.
• Ensure strict adherence to all government, industry, and Ford corporate safety, health, environmental, and quality standards throughout all planning activities.
• Synchronize resources and activities required for problem-free equipment start-ups and shutdowns.
• Be flexible and willing to assist with other job functions and departments as needed, including back-filling other roles, to support overall facility operations.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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