Lead Process Coach, Maintenance, Ford at BlueOval City, Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center

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.  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.

 

 

In this position…

The Final Assembly Lead Process Maintenance Coach at Blue Oval City – Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center (TEVC) will have a unique and rare opportunity to be a key member of the start-up team, launching the facility from ground up, and creating and establishing the desired culture.

The Lead Maintenance Process Coach partners with the Maintenance Operation Systems (MOS) Manager to create, implement, and execute all processes and tasks needed to ensure the reliability and availability of the production equipment. The unique timing for THIS position allows for leading of, or participation in the following: 

• hiring the initial skilled workforce
• creating initial training standards
• initial formatting of the equipment structure in Maximo
• equipment buyoff, installation and debug
• creation machine FMEAs and associated PM tasks.

What you'll do…

Drive SQCDPME by understanding and consistently applying standard manufacturing operating system processes. Validate and bridge operational needs to ensure the line is running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts.

• Safety
  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards
  • Review department safety metrics and coordinate improvement activities
  • Serve as maintenance liaison for launch-related Pro-Tag and Arc Flash updates, Construction Service Safety audits/compliance checks, and inter-department Pre-Task Analyses
• Quality
  • Direct data-driven maintenance processes to improve quality metrics (e.g., higher FTT, less scrap, less contamination, etc.)
  • Devise and implement strategy to tighten tolerances within specifications for fit, form and functionality
• Delivery
  • Coordinate the resources and activities required to ensure problem free start-ups
  • Facilitate start-up/shift-to-shift meetings
  • Facilitate constraint analysis and coordinate activities to eliminate bottlenecks
• Cost
  • Promote and ensure continuous improvement in the manufacturing engineering organization toward the common goal of improving product quality, plant competitiveness and total cost structure
  • Monitor, control, and improve Maintenance Cost Per Unit (MCPU) 
  • Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives: meet or beat schedule
  • Manage and support material control (spare part inventory), repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews
• People
  • Supervise salaried employees
  • Communication and Recognition
  • Participate in Time & Data Management meetings for scheduling, staffing, procurement, equipment maintenance, inventory control, constraint analysis, and the coordination of production activities with codependent departments
  • Build Team Leaders’ and Team Members’ capabilities, mentor subordinates
  • Create a conducive work environment for the team(s) to complete their assigned responsibilities / tasks; build and nurture a One Team environment
  • Basic Administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents
• Maintenance
  • Lead all daily, weekend and shutdown maintenance planning with input from your team(s)
  • Integrate the maintenance plan into total department business plan
  • Maximize equipment effectiveness through a detailed, standardized, and prioritized preventive and predictive maintenance plan designed to improve productivity
  • Provide resources, support, and priorities for all maintenance actions; Use Maximo (MFM) to document all maintenance activities (planned and crisis) and create reports to support continuous improvement
  • Use Maximo to ana