Production Supervisor

About the position

The Production Supervisor at Ford Motor Company is a leadership role within the manufacturing team, responsible for supervising and empowering an hourly team to produce high-quality manufactured products. This position emphasizes safety, quality, and productivity, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and strong interpersonal relationships among team members and management. The role offers opportunities for career progression and is integral to the company's mission of driving human progress through innovative mobility solutions.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, evaluate, and empower an hourly team that produces manufactured products.
• Organize workflow to meet quality and daily productivity requirements.
• Ensure safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met through coaching standardized work.
• Verify that production lines are running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts.
• Drive to exceed personal, team, and company goals by holding self and team to high performance standards.
• Build strong interpersonal relationships with hourly team members, union, and management.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• 1+ years of supervisory and/or manufacturing experience
• 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 team members and leaders
• Highly committed to continuous improvement with a customer-first mindset
• Create a culture of safety and implement workplace policies
• Administer the collective bargaining agreement consistently and effectively
• Values different opinions and is open to ideas from others.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree
• Safety and quality experience
• Six Sigma: Black or Green Belt certified
• Knowledge of constraint management principles
• Prior experience managing a unionized workforce.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, 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
• 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.