Senior Production Supervisor

Ford • Sterling Heights, MI

3d

About The Position

1. Supervise, evaluate, and empower a team that produces manufactured products, and organize workflow to meet quality and daily productivity requirements. Drive to exceed personal/team/Company goals by holding self and team to high performance standards through servant leadership. Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives. 2. Operational Excellence & Standardized Work: Ensure safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met through coaching standardized work, verifying lines are running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts. 3. Relationship Building & Communication: Build strong interpersonal relationships with hourly team members, union representatives, and management teams. Act as a two-way communicator who actively listens to hourly team members, leaders, business partners, and customers. 4. Development & Coaching: Support peer team by training, coaching, and developing newly hired and promoted Supervisors. 5. Continuous Improvement & Problem Solving: Be highly committed to continuous improvement, applying innovative solutions with a customer-first mindset. Develop Kaizen projects to improve processes for material handling operations. 6. Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Manage and update Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within the zone control center. 7. Safety & Policy Implementation: Create a safety culture; apply and implement workplace policies consistently. 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 of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including: 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. This position is a salary grade 8. For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP1 Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• 2-3 years as a Process Coach
• Working knowledge in Microsoft: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Ability to work rotating shifts and hours, including nights and weekends
• Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism in difficult and stressful situations
• Two-way communicator who actively listens to hourly team members, leaders, business partners and customers
• Highly committed to continuous improvement, while applying innovative solutions with a customer first mindset
• Create a culture of safety and apply and implement workplace policies
• Administer the CBA (collective bargaining agreement) consistently and effectively
• Values different opinions & is open to ideas & perspectives from others

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree
• Six Sigma: Black or Green Belt certified
• Strong mechanical background

Responsibilities

• Supervise, evaluate, and empower a team that produces manufactured products, and organize workflow to meet quality and daily productivity requirements
• Drive to exceed personal/team/Company goals by holding self and team to high performance standards through servant leadership
• Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives
• Ensure safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met through coaching standardized work, verifying lines are running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts
• Build strong interpersonal relationships with hourly team members, union representatives, and management teams
• Act as a two-way communicator who actively listens to hourly team members, leaders, business partners, and customers
• Support peer team by training, coaching, and developing newly hired and promoted Supervisors
• Be highly committed to continuous improvement, applying innovative solutions with a customer-first mindset
• Develop Kaizen projects to improve processes for material handling operations
• Manage and update Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within the zone control center
• Create a safety culture; apply and implement workplace policies consistently

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
• Education Level: High school or GED