Manufacturing SPOC, Attendance and Leaves

LI-Hybrid

As part of our Human Resources team, you’ll help us attract, hire and retain the top talent we need to achieve our bold vision. You’ll play a vital role in defining, developing and maintaining the winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to work together and create the impossible. We’re seeking change leaders, talent strategists, employee advocates and culture architects to enable our teams, partners, and businesses to do and be their best.

In this position…

HR or Manufacturing candidate to lead attendance initiatives for manufacturing, ensuring consistency, alignment, and effective administration of plant attendance processes, advise on best-in-class attendance practices and continue to develop systems/tools to modernize the attendance process.
Description for Internal Candidates   
 

This position will report to Labor Affairs.

What you'll do…

• External benchmarking on best-in-class attendance practices
• Review administration of the following practices by location:
  • 10 Day Quit Process
  • 90+ day removals from active rolls
  • Temp removals from active rolls
  • Code Changes (after-the fact, COVID close contact, medical, etc.)
  • Borrow/loan floor process
  • Employee Check-in
  • Addressing Missed Opportunities
  • Daily Absenteeism Reporting
  • Attendance Discipline
  • Temp Hiring/Attrition
• Identify opportunities to improve and the corrective actions required.
• Streamline attendance practices to modernize the processes.
• Identify key performance indicators (KPI).
• Develop and maintain modern solutions for local SPOCs to effectively administer the provisions on the National Attendance Program.
• Conduct meetings:
  • SPOC Alignment Meetings (w/All SPOCs)
  • Plant Attendance Administration Reviews (w/local SPOC and HRM)
  • Manufacturing Leadership Attendance Reviews (w/VP, DOMs & Labor Affairs)
• Partner with manufacturing GDIA Lead to provide guidance, recommendations, and oversight on attendance projects (i.e. ART analysis, etc.).
• Ensure standardized attendance reports are updated and maintained on a regular cadence.

You'll have…

• 5+ years' experience in Human Resources, Manufacturing, or related field 
• Previous manufacturing plant experience 
• Ability to analyze data and use technology to identify and diagnose business needs
• Ability to lead others to deliver cross functional objectives and assignments
• Self-starter with strong time management skills and keen eye to details
• Working knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and organization skills
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and persuasion skills
• Presence to successfully influence/interface with the peers, and UAW working partners
• Confident communication skills (written and verbal)
• Conflict management skills
• Team-oriented, strong drive for results 
• Bachelor’s Degree is required

Even better you'll have…

• Previous union contract negotiations experience 
• Master's Degree 

Computer skills needed

• Excel – data manipulation, pivoting, charting, look ups, etc.
• MS Access – Creating and maintaining databases, tables, views, writing queries
• VBA – Writing Visual Basic code to develop scripts and user forms to enter data into Excel and MS Access
• SQL Querying – Being able to write queries on Microsoft SQL Server. This is optional and someone who is strong in MS Access will be able to pick this up

This description outlines the general nature and scope of work typically performed in this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, work requirements, etc. It may vary slightly based on business or geographic needs and is subject to being reviewed and updated periodically.

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 leav