Team Manager, Production, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

Ford Motor Company • Marshall, MI

3d • $115,500 - $218,100 • Onsite

About The Position

Ford is hiring a Team Manager, Production for BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, a start-up manufacturing facility focused on battery systems. The manager will help launch the facility and lead production teams in support of Ford’s electrification efforts. The role applies and standardizes manufacturing operating systems, maintains production flow, delivers performance objectives, and builds a culture of continuous improvement, learning, trust, and employee development. It calls for close engagement with production employees and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to travel 15% domestically and internationally.
• At least 5 years of manufacturing, engineering, or operations experience in leadership roles.
• At least 5 years of managerial experience leading teams.
• Strong leadership skills and experience leading, attracting, and developing results-oriented teams.
• Experience managing complex processes and communicating with all levels of leadership.
• Strong business acumen and project management skills.
• Collaborative leadership style and ability to influence and build relationships with cross-functional teams.
• Good communication skills and proven ability to build trust, influence, and foster relationships.
• Emotional intelligence and ability to remain calm in ambiguous situations.
• Ability to align team members from different backgrounds and cultures to achieve business strategy.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• At least 5 years of battery cell-related manufacturing experience.
• Experience succeeding amid high complexity, exposure to multiple business issues, ambiguity, and conflict.

Responsibilities

• Ensure manufacturing operating system standards are applied and standardized throughout the area.
• Create and coordinate work plans to maintain production flow.
• Promote, support, and coach continuous improvement activities and mindset within the team.
• Deliver key performance indicators and achieve business objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles.
• Motivate teams by leveraging technology and best-in-class manufacturing systems.
• Mentor, nurture, and develop teams to work together and model expected values and behaviors.
• Remove barriers to team success and develop employees’ knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Lead change efforts to construct and achieve manufacturing standards.
• Engage regularly with employees in production environments, listen to them, and problem-solve using the Gemba philosophy.
• Champion a culture that supports the organization’s vision, mission, values, and performance objectives.
• Enable a culture of learning through effective communication.
• Develop leaders as teachers and ensure employees receive the training, coaching, and support needed to optimize performance and development.

Benefits

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