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

Ford’s legacy of innovation is about to reach new heights. Imagine being on the ground floor of something truly extraordinary. At BlueOval City, Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center, , we’re not just assembling vehicles, we’re leading a transformation. As a key member of our start-up team, you’ll have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to launch a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility from the ground up. Imagine: you, at the forefront of the electrification movement, helping to bring the next generation of vehicles to driveways, job sites and highways everywhere.

At Ford at BlueOval City, Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center, you will...

•  use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions

•  build and lead an agile team to deliver the advanced technology that drives the future

•  create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought and foster leadership in others, and

•  be part of the historic transformation of the automotive industry.

In this position…

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 analyze data and evaluate the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance plan
  • Jointly coordinate maintenance and engineering activities
• Environment
  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards

You'll have…

• Education: High School Diploma
• Experience: 1-2 years technical work experience and troubleshooting in a Manufacturing environment
• Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls
• Ability to work any shift as well as rotating shifts and weekends 
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision 
• Capable of assigning work to unionized hourly workforce and holding employees accountable for following processes pertaining to daily work assignments in terms safety, quality, and throughput 
• Strong organizational and administrative skills 
• Ability to multi-task 
• Strong problem-solving and conflict management skills
• Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate leadership in One FORD (leadership) behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills 

Even better, you may have…

• Education:  Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering 
• Experience:  3-5 years automotive experience
• Body shop/stamping/paint/subassembly experience preferred 
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles 
• Knowledge of constraint management principles
• Safety and Quality experience preferred
• Microsoft Office knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook) 
• Prior experience managing a unionized work force
• CNC machining experience (PTO specific)
• Helium leak stand experience (PTO specific)

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, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRnon-HTHD

This position is a range of salary grade 8.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. 

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