Area Manager-CD & Gears

What youll do...

Youll have...

• Education: High School diploma some post-secondary (college or skilled trades)
• Experience:
  • Broad production experience
  • Strong ability to interface with plant hourly salaried personnel and plant management
  • Strong ability to present in front of senior management
  • Ability to teach Ford Production System principles
  • Competent in the use of data for decision making
  • Excellent leadership skills with demonstrated ability to resolve diverse problems
  • Work well under pressure and to be able to work under crisis management when necessary
  • Ability to work and multi-task in fast paced environment
• Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate servant leadership behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal teambuilding and communication skills.

Even better you may have...

• Education: Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or technical field
• Experience:
  • Team Manager/People Leader experience in manufacturing operations
  • Gear manufacturing and/or gear engineering experience including exposure to gear cutting grinding honing inspection and dimensional control processes
  • Experience with blanking operations including material preparation part flow tooling quality checks and production throughput in a high-volume manufacturing environment
  • Knowledge of heat treat processes and related controls including distortion management case depth/hardness requirements quench systems and metallurgical quality standards
  • Understanding of machining tooling gauging and process capability methods used to drive quality throughput scrap reduction and equipment uptime
  • Ability to partner effectively with Manufacturing Engineering Product Engineering Quality Maintenance Skilled Trades MP&L and hourly teams to resolve technical and production issues
  • Experience supporting launch constraint management continuous improvement and problem-solving activities within powertrain transmission axle or component manufacturing
  • Computer skills including ability to use production quality maintenance and data analysis systems to support fact-based decision making
  • Strong analytical skill and quick decision-making capability preferred

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor all 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 leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up childcare 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 Years Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is leadership level 5 and ranges from $20.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.

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