Team Manager, Production, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

Ford’s legacy of innovation is about to reach new heights. Imagine being on the ground floor of something truly extraordinary. At Blue Oval Battery Park Michigan, we’re not just assembling battery systems, 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.

• 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.

What you'll do…

• Ensure manufacturing operating system standards are applied and standardized throughout the area.
• Create and coordinate work plans to ensure the team is maintaining production flow.
• Promote, support, and coach a continuous improvement mindset and activities in the team.
• Achieve business results by delivering key performance indicators to ensure objectives are met.
• Drive continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles.
• Motivate teams by leveraging technology and best-in-class manufacturing systems.
• Mentor, nurture, and develop teams to own working together, modeling the values and expected behaviors.
• Support teams by removing barriers to their success and developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Lead change efforts to construct and achieve manufacturing standards.
• Demonstrate empathy and embrace Gemba philosophy by engaging regularly with employees in production environments to listen and problem-solve.
• Champion the formation of the culture required to achieve the Vision, Mission, and Values to deliver performance objectives.
• Enable a culture of learning through demonstration of effective communication skills.
• Develop ‘leaders as teachers’ at all levels by ensuring all employees receive necessary training, coaching, and support to optimize performance and advance both the overall organization and themselves.

Capabilities

Required:

• Emotionally intelligent leader who remains calm in ambiguous situations.
• Able to align team members from different backgrounds and cultures to achieve business strategy.
• Strong leadership skills and experience leading, attracting, and developing strong results-oriented teams.
• Experience managing high degrees of complexity in processes and communication with all levels of leadership.
• Strong business acumen and project management skills
• Collaborative leadership style is necessary to influence and build meaningful relationships with all cross-functional teams.
• Good communicator with a proven ability to build trust, influence, and foster relationships.

You’ll have…

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to travel (15% domestically and internationally)
• 5 years of manufacturing, engineering, or operations experience in leadership roles.
• 5+ years of managerial experience leading teams.

Even better, you may have…

• Master’s Degree.
• 5+ years of battery cell-related manufacturing experience.
• Experience succeeding in high levels of complexity, exposure, to multiple business issues, ambiguity, and conflict.

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 change maker, a technical expert, a culture…