Senior Maintenance Supervisor

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.

In this position...

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

· Resilient

· Detail oriented

· Ambitious

· Demonstrate high integrity

What you'll do...

· Understand and consistently apply standard manufacturing operating systems.

· Validate and bridge operational needs as required to ensure the line is running safely, efficiently, and producing quality parts at rate.

· Cascade communication and provide team recognition.

· Establish and build Team Leader and Team Member capabilities.

· Create a conducive work environment for the team(s) to complete their assigned responsibilities / tasks.

· Handle basic administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents.

· Assign appropriate trades and engineering resources to maintain production equipment for continuous operation.

· Participate in MOS meetings to write and finalize Maximo 4Ds for equipment failures.

· Identify spare parts and preventive maintenance job plans for new equipment, and review effectiveness for existing job plans. Improve existing maintenance job plans based on failures, feedback from skilled trades and engineering team.

· Promote and ensure constant improvement in the organization toward the common goal of improving product quality, plant competitiveness and total cost structure.

· Ensure department follows government/industry safety and quality standards.

· Synchronize resources and activities required to ensure problem free start-up.

· Facilitate start-up/shift to shift meetings.

· Review/approve PM activities by ensuring spare parts availability.

· Review department safety measurables and coordinate improvement activities

· Drive continuous improvement and SQDCPME processes.

· Ability to work any shift as well as rotating shifts and weekends.

· Ensure that the building, structures, and systems withing the facility are properly designed, installed, maintained, and operated. This role involves a range of tasks, including managing construction projects, overseeing the maintenance of mechanical and electrical systems, ensuring compliance with building codes and regulations, and implementing energy efficiency initiatives

· Interface with contractors/suppliers/plant personnel for building and site operations, planning, and maintenance.

· Ensure the identification and capture of lessons learned along with their application to new programs, as well as the impact to existing strategies and standards.

· Participate in management program reviews and represent the Facilities and Infrastructure organization in commodity discussions.

· Define the scope of Equipment Installation and contract appropriate resources to install after reviewing bids and awarding contract.

· Direct activities of the Installation contractor or internal trades to install and power on equipment according to the required program timing.

· Coordinate Process requirements with Ford Land activities to ensure facilities utilities support demands.

· Working knowledge of a diverse skill set including, air handling, contamination elimination and prevention, power distribution, foundations, etc.

· Experience interacting with senior management, process engineering, safety, IT, and plant production teams.

· Liaison with Ford Corporate Fire Protection to ensure adequate fire protection for operations to be compliant with AON Insurance Underwriters

· Liaison with Ford Land/IFM to ensure adequate building maintenance operations are met.

· Maintain all facilities layouts/drawings.

· Plan, prepare, organize, and oversee shutdown and maintenance activities.

· Procure any Installation material, equipment rentals, and Infrastructure required to support project delivery and maintenance/facilities operations.

· Manage, support, and supervise all aspects of plant building maintenance and construction activities for both UAW and outside contractors using SQDCPME principles.

· Represent the company in daily interactions with UAW business and Labor Clearance meetings

You'll have...

· High School Diploma or GED

· 3+ years project management experience

· 1+ years of supervisory experience 

· Strong manufacturing background with heavy emphasis on production and facilities related equipment.

· Facilities, construction