Ford Motor Company

Battery Manufacturing - Cell Formation Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $86K — $144K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
1 week ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Engineering degree (PhD preferred)
  • 5+ years in major projects with battery manufacturing processes
  • Experience in large-scale project implementation as a manufacturing engineer
  • Familiarity with simulation tools and mechanical design (AutoCAD, Siemens PLM)
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Willingness to travel 85-90% of the time for project execution

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead manufacturing processes and layouts for battery production
  • Drive design for manufacturability with cross-functional teams
  • Collaborate with OEMs on manufacturing equipment and tooling
  • Work with automation partners to boost productivity and define ROI
  • Create quality methods, including PFMEA and control plans
  • Design assembly systems, addressing workstation and redundancy needs
  • Establish performance targets and optimize labor strategies

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and subsidized child care
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups and community service paid time off
  • Generous holiday schedule including time off between Christmas and New Year
  • Option to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
As part of our Manufacturing team, you'll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we're constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Develop manufacturing process: lead, engineer line layouts and Implement the Battery Manufacturing processes and launch manufacturing facilities. Processes specific to Formation, Capacity as well as other processes such as electrode (mixing, coat, press, slit), Cell Assembly (notch, dry, stack, weld, package),
  • Lead simultaneous engineering with Product, Purchasing and Suppliers to deliver manufacturing feasibility: Drive design for manufacturability for new Cell and Module products.
  • Work closely with OEM's in the design of manufacturing equipment, process and tooling
  • Collaborate with automation and other technology partners to develop competitive solutions for productivity Understand and own ROI.
  • Lead development of Quality methods including process failure mode and analysis (PFMEA), associated gauging requirements and inspection methods. Deliver a Control plan per the quality strategy.
  • Develop Assembly system solutions including workstation requirements (work content, automated versus manual, buffering strategy, redundancy requirements, etc.)
  • Define Cycle time / OEE and other performance target with industrial engineering to develop optimal operating and labor strategies.
  • Define equipment acceptance criteria including duration, target results, and quality inspection plan.
  • Manage schedule and budget.
  • Track and own change management to deliver Quality / Cost and Timing
  • Lead equipment installation and coordinate with building and utilities team
  • Lead on site equipment buyoff per acceptance procedures
  • Support plant operations to achieve System performance objectives OEE, Cycle time / JPH et all
  • Enable successful process and system transition to plant operations.
  • Create detailed Manufacturing Instructions to document new processes.
  • Provide relevant process documentation (drawings, PM plans, spare parts, training manuals etc.
  • Create and document detailed Manufacturing process know for new technologies and methods.
  • Provide plant assistance to support launch requests and extraordinary needs w/existing cell suppliers.


Qualifications

You'll have...

  • Engineering degree (PhD's preferred)
  • Understanding/experience of overall manufacturing processes (Battery preferred) and manufacturing business acumen. minimum 5+ years on major projects
  • Experience Implementing large scale Projects as a manufacturing engineer or project manager on new specialized manufacturing lines
  • Experience with Simulation tools, Digital methods: AutoCad / Siemens PLM etc. developing layouts in AutoCAD, mechanical design stack up understanding highly desirable.
  • Exemplary verbal and written communication skills

    Ability to travel regularly and the flexibility to be assigned to different work sites for multi week or multi month durations.

    Candidates must be able to travel 85-90% of the time to support project execution and on site commissioning.

    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 Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

    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 changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.


This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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