Team Manager - Tool & Die

Job Description

Imagine seeing your work on highways and job sites everywhere you go in the finest trucks ever made. 
Imagine leading the formation of a new stamping facility, operating as if it were a start-up, leveraging the strength of a global heritage brand. 
Imagine the opportunity to use your leadership and technical skills to build a winning team from the ground up.
Imagine deploying state-of-the-art technology within a centre of excellence that's not just best-in-class for Ford, but best in the world. 
Imagine the career journey of a lifetime. 

As a Stamping Tool & Die Operations Team Manager at Ford's Oakville Assembly Complex, you'll do all that and more. We're investing $3 billion to expand the Ford Oakville plant to produce the legendary F-Series Super Duty pickup truck by 2026. Make the next chapter of your career a long and legendary one: build the best plant from the ground up to build the trucks that keep the world working.

This talented and experienced leader will lead a team of Tool and Die professionals to drive a culture of excellence, focus, and collaboration. Ensuring productivity, quality, safety, and cost targets are achieved for all stamping dies on all shifts/crews within the stamping department. Delivering all department scorecard objectives, owning processes and standardization. You will lead continuous improvement opportunities to ensure production volume and quality targets are achieved and serve as a change agent to drive the Ford Production System.

Responsibilities

 

• Maximizing die effectiveness to improve productivity and quality.
• Develop and lead die preventative maintenance activities.
• Champion constraint analysis and coordinate activities to eliminate production bottlenecks.
• Promote improved department safety metrics and provide resources.
• Address department Health and Safety concerns. Enforce compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards.
• Develop and implement a training strategy for all team members.
• Lead teams in maintenance of all department dies and related assets.
• Coach, counsel, and teach to ensure departmental goals are achieved.
• Coordinate resources and activities of the organization to meet the production schedule within budgetary limitations and time constraints.
• Lead Ford Production System implementation.
• Promote and ensure constant improvement in product quality, plant competitiveness and total cost structure.
• Ensures the department complies with government/industry standards.
• Facilitate start-up, shutdown, weekends, and shift to shift meetings.
• Evaluate and deliver die preventive maintenance measurables.
• Implement material control (spare part inventory), die repair, and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews.
• Review department safety measurables, coordinate improvement activities.
• Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions through the established methodology.
• Achieve labour and operating budget targets.
• Recognize and celebrate accomplishments of the team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
 

• Education: College diploma or University Degree in Stamping or Tool and Die related field, or Skilled Trades Certificate of Qualification in the Tool & Die profession.
• Experience: Five (5) years in Stamping manufacturing.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to effectively engage with all employees in the organization.
• In-depth experience in assembly manufacturing processes.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, including Six Sigma.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a team.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, empower and develop employees.
• Demonstrated conflict management skills.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and organization skills.
• Must be able to travel outside of Canada.

Preferred Qualifications:
 

• Experience: High-speed Class-A automotive Stamping operations.
• Knowledge of constraint management principles.

This is more than just a job; it's a chance to grow your career like never before. Embark on a journey of professional development with Ford Motor Company of Canada. Competitive salary and benefits, plus opportunities for advancement, await. 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's Oakville Assembly Complex, we encourage you to apply.

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Note: Successful candidates will be required to provide proof of degree completion for the highest level of education attained. If the degree was obtained from a school outside of Canada, an Education Credential Assessment report showing Canadian equivalency is also required.

Ford of Canada is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a culturally diverse workforce. Accommodations for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment, selection and / or assessment processes, where needed, are available upon request. Please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require. 

Candidates for this position must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited does not sponsor work permit applications.