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Ford Motor Company Maintenance Process Coach in Chihuahua, Mexico

Preferred Requirements:

  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

  • Experience: 3-5 years automotive experience

  • Body shop/stamping/paint/subassembly experience

  • Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles

  • Knowledge of constraint management principles

  • Safety and Quality experience

  • Microsoft Office knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook)

  • Prior experience managing a unionized work force

  • CNC machining experience (PTO specific)

  • Helium leak stand experience (PTO specific)

Position Duties:

Coach Safety, Quality and Productivity to ensure objectives are met through following standardized work processes

Safety

  • Enforce compliance with Safety Operating System practices to include, but not limited to: Combustion Safety; Energy Lockout; Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety; Working at Heights; Pre-Task Analysis (PTA); and licensing and safety training requirements

  • Perform safety inspections using corporate tools (OHSIM, MSS, SPRB) and conduct safety talks

  • Identify and insure that safety hazards and unsafe practices are promptly corrected

  • Complete 100% of mandated FAS08 PMs at the prescribed frequency

Quality

  • Communication and Recognition

  • Drive Continuous Improvement through a focused maintenance program designed to reduce scrap and ensure reliability of error-proofing devices

  • Maintain automation in a state of compliance with specifications, fit, form, and contamination standards

Delivery (Productivity)

  • Lead skilled trades/maintenance personnel to evaluate controls requirements for maintaining and improving production yields, throughput, and up time

  • Responsible for monitoring day-to-day production processes, tooling, and operations related to automation equipment

  • Analyze equipment performance and work to improve efficiencies; actively participate in Constraint Review Process

  • Ensure equipment start-up readiness for production

  • Use andon data (FIS, POSMON, PAARS, Maximo, etc.) to prioritize efforts and achieve 100% flow

Cost

  • Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives: meet or beat schedule

  • Meet FTT, inventory, cost, scrap, supply, and tooling expense targets

  • Minimize overtime by improving JPH, controlling absenteeism, using predictive maintenance programs; preparing for and fully utilizing down time; optimizing use of skilled labor throughout the day

  • Supervise material control (spare part inventory), repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews

People

  • Build Team Leaders’ and Team Members’ capabilities

  • Create a conducive work environment for the team(s) to complete their assigned responsibilities/tasks; build and foster a team environment between production and maintenance

  • Basic administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents

  • Maintain a versatility matrix that ensures technical coverage at all times

  • Assist and teach maintenance troubleshooting techniques to improve mean time between failure and mean time to repair

  • Participate in Time & Data Management meetings as prescribed by Ford Production System (FPS)

Maintenance

  • Supervise preventive maintenance schedules, preventive and predictive inspections, and repairs to minimize down time

  • Coordinate and schedule manpower and materials to meet maintenance requirements to minimize down time; coordinate maintenance activities with other plant operations

  • Conduct root cause analysis of downtime issues to prevent recurrence (4D process)

  • Work with ME/PE to launch new programs or equipment, optimize floor layouts, coordinate equipment refurbishment, and develop standardized PM programs from FMEAs

  • Execute prioritized daily maintenance activities (predictive, preventive and crisis maintenance) obtaining full utilization of work force while optimizing available opportunities for all maintenance

  • Provide input to MPS for weekend and shutdown maintenance planning

  • Use Maximo for Maintenance (MFM) to document all maintenance activities (crisis and planned); provide quality assurance of MFM inputs to enable in-depth data analysis

Environment

  • Fully integrate Leak Tag and Jumper Tag process into daily operations

  • Control and monitor oil, water, and energy usage

  • Manage and maintain support systems (plant powertrains (air, electrical, water, etc.), exhausts, heat exchangers, hydraulics, etc.)

  • Maintain housekeeping in all maintenance areas and cabinets

  • Complete 100% of mandated EOS PMs at the prescribed frequency

Perform other related duties as required

Minimum Requirements:

  • 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

Requisition ID : 32632

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