Senior Production Supervisor - Sterling Heights

In this position... · The Senior Production Supervisor position is a supervisory leadership role supported by on-the-job training, development, and opportunity for career progression. Senior Production Supervisors are: · Resilient · Detail oriented · Ambitious · Demonstrate high ...

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In this position...

The Senior Production Supervisor position is a supervisory leadership role supported by on-the-job training, development, and opportunity for career progression. Senior Production Supervisors are:

· Resilient

· Detail oriented

· Ambitious

· Demonstrate high integrity

What you'll do...

1. Team Leadership & Performance Management:

• 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.

You'll have...

· 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

Required Behaviors

· 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

Even better, you may have...

· 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

· Strong mechanical background

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply

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.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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