Maintenance Supervisor

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

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...
We’re looking for leaders who will lead transformation on the forefront. This isn't just a supervisory role; it's a critical leadership position where you'll have the power to shape culture, drive performance, and directly impact the quality and efficiency of our operations.

What you'll do...

As a Maintenance Supervisor, you are the vital link between equipment reliability, strategic plant goals, and daily execution. You will lead a dedicated team of skilled trades professionals (electrical, mechanical, and tooling), fostering an environment where they can perform World-Class Maintenance, feel empowered, and drive maximum uptime in a lean manufacturing environment.

• Safety First: Act as a champion of workplace safety, proactively enforcing regulations, ensuring strict adherence to Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) and electrical safety protocols, and fostering a culture of vigilance among your skilled trades team.
• Driving World-Class Maintenance: Lead and direct a team of skilled trades employees to deliver World-Class Maintenance. You will take ownership of equipment reliability, drive high-performance maintenance standards, and address technical gaps proactively while celebrating team successes.
• Strategic Focus & Problem Solving: Effectively allocate skilled trades resources to balance scheduled Preventive Maintenance (PM) with urgent crisis maintenance activities. You will apply a "Bias for Action," prioritizing critical line-stoppage issues to minimize downtime while maintaining a strategic focus on spare parts availability to prevent long-term recovery delays.
• Team Leadership & Development: Embrace a servant leadership style, focusing on building a high-performing, winning team of skilled trades and investing in their technical growth. You will foster a positive, collaborative, and psychologically safe work environment, motivating your team to achieve shared reliability and safety goals.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize maintenance data and insights to dramatically reduce downtime. You will collaborate with the production team to identify opportunities to optimize key metrics, specifically reducing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and increasing Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). You will meticulously track skilled trades labor, time, and attendance, transforming raw equipment data into actionable intelligence for strategic maintenance planning.
• Continuous Improvement & Kaizen Mentality: Drive a proactive maintenance Kaizen mentality, relentlessly pursuing opportunities to eliminate equipment waste and improve
• machine reliability. You will lead robust root-cause problem-solving, driving the closure of 4D and 8D quality/reliability investigations to ensure permanent corrective actions are implemented and equipment defects are eliminated.
• Conflict Resolution & Interpersonal Relationships: Proactively address and mediate conflicts fairly and effectively within a skilled trades environment. This requires active listening, empathy, and the ability to de-escalate tense situations under high-pressure downtime events. You will build and maintain strong, positive working relationships with your trades team, suppliers, and union representatives through transparent communication and a collaborative spirit.
• Accountability & Fairness: Champion accountability, managing both your own performance and that of the hourly skilled trades workforce regarding safety protocols, maintenance standards, PM compliance, and work order documentation. You will ensure accountability, play fair, and meet performance or safety deviations with decisive action.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Actively collaborate with the production team, industrial/quality engineering, and MP&L to identify joint opportunities to optimize Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), improve part flow, and eliminate bottlenecks. You will work closely with and, when needed, step in to help cover the Production Supervisor role to support and best maintain our drive for World-Class Manufacturing.