_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 Maintenance and Manufacturing Engineering 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 Process Engineers, Maintenance Process Coaches (Supervisors), and Skilled Trades team members to drive a culture of excellence, focus, and collaboration. Ensuring productivity, quality, safety, and cost targets are achieved for all stamping presses and production equipment 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. + Maximizing stamping equipment effectiveness to improve productivity and quality. + Develop and lead 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 Maintenance and Engineering teams, and skilled trades teams in maintenance of all department equipment. + 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. + Lead Health and Safety reviews of new production equipment. + Promote and ensure constant improvement in product quality, plant competitiveness and total cost structure. + Ensure the department complies with government/industry standards. + Facilitate shift to shift meetings, weekend planning meetings, and start-up/shutdown meetings. + Implement material control of spare part inventory, repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews. + Review department safety measurables, coordinate improvement activities, and address department Health and Safety concerns. + Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions through the established methodology. + Achieve production volume, labour and operating budget targets. + Recognize and celebrate accomplishments of the team. **Minimum Qualifications:** + Education: College diploma or University Degree in technical related field, or Skilled Trades Certificate of Qualification in technical related field. + Experience: Five (5) years in manufacturing maintenance and/or manufacturing engineering roles. + Work flexible hours that may include nights, weekends, and overtime. + Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills. + Ability to interact with all employees in the organization. + In depth experience in assembly manufacturing processes. + Strong working knowledge of the Ford Production System. + 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. **Requisition ID** : 40084