Full-Time

Safety Emergency Response Senior Supervisor

Updated on 8/1/2026

BlueOval SK

BlueOval SK

11-50 employees

Joint venture battery manufacturing for EVs

No salary listed

No H1B Sponsorship

Stanton, TN, USA

In Person

Category
Security & Protective Services
Required Skills
CPR

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Requirements
  • Five or more years of safety and emergency response experience.
  • Current Firefighter I/II certification from a nationally accredited organization.
  • Prior experience in a supervisory capacity.
  • Must be at least 18 years of age.
  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees, hospital staff, fire departments, rescue squads, police departments, communications centers, management, and the general public.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to handle conflict situations with good judgment, professionalism, and courtesy.
  • Ability to pass a background check.
  • Successful completion of the emergency response team physical agility requirements.
  • Current CPR certification.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the Safety Emergency Response Team within the plant.
  • Develop and implement safety-related programs and processes to prevent injuries, fires, and other workplace accidents.
  • Oversee workplace inspections that identify and address potential safety hazards.
  • Supervise the creation and delivery of safety training programs covering safe working practices, equipment operation, and emergency procedures.
  • Assess the impact of training programs on organizational safety and accident rates and recommend curriculum modifications as needed.
  • Investigate incidents and accidents, gather and analyze statistics, and recommend improvements.
  • Prepare and submit accident reports in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements.
  • Lead and direct the work of safety response employees.
  • Make personnel decisions related to hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
  • Lead Safety Emergency Response Team Supervisors.
  • Ensure Safety Emergency Response Team Supervisors and members are prepared to respond to structural and medical emergencies.
  • Ensure incident reports are completed and error-proofed before the end of each shift.
  • Ensure salary timekeeping requirements are met.
  • Provide performance reviews for all Safety Emergency Response Team Supervisors.
  • Oversee the incident commander during responses.
  • Oversee reports of fires, chemical spills, and alarms.
  • Ensure training is completed for high-angle rescue operations.
  • Ensure training is completed for confined-space rescue operations.
Desired Qualifications
  • OSHA 10 certification is preferred and will be required within 12 months of hire.
  • Apparatus Operator certification for pumper or aerial equipment is preferred and will be required within 12 months of hire.

BlueOval SK is a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and SK On that builds and supplies EV batteries for Ford and Lincoln. It operates three large battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky to manufacture lithium-ion cells and packs that power electric vehicles. The partnership combines automaker backing with battery expertise and pursues a large, domestic production footprint to serve Ford and Lincoln directly. Its goal is to deliver safe, dependable batteries at scale for Ford and Lincoln while creating thousands of American jobs.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Stanton, Tennessee

Founded

2022

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • EV battery demand can support long-term production scale at Glendale.
  • Class-action exposure centers on compensable time practices, making remediation operationally targeted.
  • Union resolution and compliance fixes can stabilize hiring and plant throughput.

What critics are saying

  • Class-action overtime claims can trigger back pay, fees, and damages within months.
  • Active NLRB charges raise the risk of labor findings and operational disruption.
  • Discrimination and accommodation lawsuits damage retention and invite broader legal discovery.

What makes BlueOval SK unique

  • Ford-SK On joint venture anchors BlueOval SK's $6 billion Kentucky battery plant.
  • The Glendale facility uses mandatory PPE and long walking paths before shifts.
  • Current labor disputes span wage, discrimination, and union-related matters at one site.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Paid Vacation

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Company News

Transport Topics
Dec 15th, 2025
Ford to Suffer $19.5 Billion Hit Tied to EV Reduction

Ford to suffer $19.5 billion hit tied to EV reduction. Ford Kentucky EV battery plant will become facility to produce cells for energy storage; all 1,600 to be laid off for conversion. A Ford dealership in Richmond, Calif. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) Key takeaways: Ford Motor Co. will take $19.5 billion in charges tied to a sweeping overhaul of its electric vehicle business after struggling for years to make it profitable. The majority of the charges will come in the fourth quarter, Ford said in a Dec. 15 statement. As part of the strategic shift, the automaker is canceling a planned electric F-Series truck, shifting production toward gas and hybrid vehicles and repurposing an EV battery plant. Ford will also convert its signature electric F-150 Lightning pickup into an extended-range hybrid vehicle. The magnitude of asset impairments and write-downs are a testament both to the degree of difficulty Ford has had trying to profitably build and sell EVs, and the extent to which President Donald Trump's policy changes will only exacerbate those challenges. In taking the charges, Ford is acknowledging it built far too much battery production capacity and was going down a dead end with large EVs that were destined to lose more money. The moves will make Ford's Model e EV operations profitable by 2029, Andrew Frick, head of the EV unit, told reporters in a briefing. Ford lost $5.1 billion in its EV division last year and expects losses could be worse this year. "The operating reality has changed, and we are redeploying capital into higher-return growth opportunities," Ford CEO Jim Farley said in a statement. The automaker boosted its 2025 guidance to $7 billion before interest and taxes, up from a prior estimate of $6 billion to $6.5 billion. Ford shares rose 1% in extended New York trading at 4:37 p.m. The stock had risen 38% so far this year. Farley has predicted consumer demand for plug-ins will fall by half after Trump ripped up most of former President Joe Biden's policy platform. Now companies are trying to find ways to limit the financial damage caused by idle plants. In October, General Motors Co. took $1.6 billion in charges to write down EV assets. One of the most promising options is converting EV battery plants to produce cells for stationary storage, where demand is booming thanks to growth in AI data centers and needed upgrades to the power grid. Utility-scale battery storage rose 50% during the first 10 months of this year to nearly 39.3 gigawatts from the end of 2024, Energy Information Administration preliminary data shows. Storage cells can eke out more usage from the existing grid because big new power plants can't be built fast enough to serve data campuses that use as much power as cities. But to make a profit on the capital-intensive, technically challenging business of cell-making, manufacturers have argued that manufacturing tax credits are critical to make the plants economically viable. Ford is halting production at its Glendale, Ky., electric vehicle battery plant, which will undergo a $2 billion conversion to produce cells for energy storage to power the electric grid. The plant's 1,600 workers will be laid off during the conversion, but Ford plans to hire 2,100 people to support its energy storage business when the facility reopens in 2027. The automaker is taking control of side-by-side battery plants in Kentucky, following the breakup last week of a joint venture with South Korean battery maker SK On. Just one of those plants is operating, and Ford will switch its output to the lower-cost lithium iron phosphate cells utilizing a licensing agreement it has with Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Those batteries will be sold solely for energy storage. Its Marshall, Mich., plant will now also build LFP cells for energy storage as well as a new line of small, lower-cost EVs coming in 2027. Ford plans to convert a factory under construction in Stanton, Tenn., - its first new assembly plant in half a century - to build gas-powered trucks rather than pure electric pickups. The Tennessee truck plant will build a new model that's not currently in the automaker's lineup of small, medium and large pickups, the company said. Ford delayed the startup of that factory to 2029, from a previous plan to open in 2028 - which had been previously pushed back. The company said the majority of the $19.5 billion in special items will be recognized in its fourth-quarter earnings, with the remainder in 2026 and the following year. The company expects about $5.5 billion of cash impact from the charges, paid primarily next year. Ford said that by 2030, it expects half of its global sales volume will come from hybrids, extended range electric vehicles and pure EVs, up from 17% now. "These are big decisions that we believe will pay off for years," Frick said. "Rather than spending billions more on large EVs that now have no path to profitability, we are allocating that money into higher-returning areas."

The Courier-Journal
Oct 3rd, 2025
BlueOval SK EV battery maker faces second lawsuit over worker pay issues. What to know

* A second class-action lawsuit has been filed against BlueOval SK alleging the company failed to properly pay workers for overtime.

The Detroit News
Mar 7th, 2025
Motown in F1: Cadillac gets final green light for entry

GM will join Ford in F1 - the Blue Oval is a partner with the Red Bull team in 2028 providing batteries for its hybrid drivetrain, or "power unit" in F1 terminology.

CBT News
Dec 17th, 2024
DOE awards $9.63B loan to BlueOval SK to build battery plants in Kentucky and Tennessee

BlueOval SK has already invested over $11 billion into the construction of these facilities, with production at the Kentucky plant expected to begin in 2025, followed by the Tennessee facility later that year.

Notebookcheck
Dec 17th, 2024
Historic $9.63 billion loan to boost US battery production

The BlueOval SK joint venture's current goals include building three facilities in mainland America, each spanning 4 million square feet.