Body Production Team Manager - Ford Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center At Blueoval City

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Introduction to Blue Oval City

Ford is investing $5.6 billion to build its state-of-the art manufacturing facilities at Blue Oval City in West Tennessee. The Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center (TEVC) will produce the next generation electric trucks, with production beginning in 2025. On 3,600 acres, we are building our first mega campus in more than a generation – and it’s electric. This brand-new facility will use Ford’s 100-years of automobile manufacturing expertise and will be among the largest automotive manufacturing campus in U.S. history. Like the iconic Rouge complex in Michigan, done a century earlier, Blue Oval City will usher in a new era for American manufacturing and will harness Ford’s global manufacturing expertise and innovative technologies. Blue Oval City embodies the transformational Ford+ plan for growth and value creation in combining existing strengths and new capabilities. Blue Oval City aspires to have 100% renewable energy, zero waste to landfill and reusing water to help make sure our planet is in it for the long haul.

For more information about Ford’s Blue Oval Plans, please Follow this link.

The Production & Maintenance Team Manager position at Blue Oval City – Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center (TEVC) will have a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a key member of the start-up team, launching the facility from ground up.

You’ll have….

• 5+ years of Supervisor experience.
• Experience as Plant Team Manager or Production Supervisor preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Must have leadership skills to lead, empower, and develop Salary and Hourly employees
• Experience with Microsoft including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Strong communication skills (verbal & written). Must be able to summarize complex issues.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering preferred

Even better, you may have…

• Industry 4.0 experience preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Production, Maintenance and/or Quality experience.

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, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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What You’ll Do….

• Clear understanding of scheduling production, line releases and maintenance.
• Coach safety, quality, and productivity teams to ensure objectives are met through the development of and adherence to standardized work. Through process confirmation and building worker accountability, ensure that the production line is running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts.
• Develop relationships with other areas to achieve business results and resolve issues at the floor level having one goal in mind – Be the best manufacturing facility in the World.
• Responsible for the training and implementation of production work teams.
• Teach, confirm, and ensure adherence to All Operating Systems.
• Support and coach problem solving activities within the department, focused on Reliability and Maintainability.
• Ensure training gaps are identified and plans implemented to achieve versatility requirements.
• Ensure all safety standards are met during maintenance activities.
• Strategic planning and coordination of Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) activities to achieve Safety, Quality, and Productivity objectives.
• Six Sigma problem solving skills to support continuous improvement mentality.
• Drive the Manage the Change (MTC) process. Ensure compliance to process and communicate changes to Team Members.
• Coordinate Maintenance Planning and Shutdown Planning actions within the department.
• Drive and optimize Preventive Maintenance (PMs) processes.
• Assist in addressing equipment down time issues.
• As a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Maintenance be a teacher to production areas on the basics of the Maintenance Operating System (MOS)