Ford Motor Company

Electrical Engineer

Ford Motor Company$86K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering or Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 10+ years of electrical engineering experience in Facility or process design, Manufacturing, or IoT/machining control system design.
  • Strong knowledge of NEC, building codes, and regulatory requirements.
  • Expertise in ARC flash mitigation and safety principles.
  • Advanced certification such as PE Registration is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate equipment, processes, and designs as a subject matter expert for safety compliance.
  • Lead electrical implementation teams from design phase through project launch.
  • Drive adherence to global engineering standards and foster continuous improvement.
  • Participate in strategic planning and budgeting for infrastructure projects.
  • Implement new technologies and methods to enhance capital efficiency and sustainability.
  • Provide collaborative engineering services to project teams, ensuring effective communication and thorough evaluations.
  • Work with Global Safety on ARC flash strategies, enhancing safety at manufacturing sites.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Family building benefits such as adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments.
  • Employee vehicle discount programs and management leases.
  • Tuition assistance for further education.
  • Paid time off for community service.
  • Generous holiday schedule, including the week between Christmas and New Year.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • The Ford Land Electrical Engineering position supports Subject Matter Expert (SME), power distribution, emergency systems and facility controls. In addition, the position supports facility manufacturing facility sites in North America.
  • Candidates must be versed in the NEC, building codes, regulatory requirements and sustainable design principles and ARC flash mitigation and safety.
  • This position provides strategic engineering direction and technical direction on electrical systems to our customers. The position leads the design review of new construction projects, renovations and capital infrastructure programs across all of Ford's strategic business units.


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • As subject matter expert, evaluate the safety of equipment, processes and designs, ensuring compliance with codes, regulations and standards.
  • Lead facility electrical and implementation teams of engineers, contractors, from design through launch
  • Drive standards and processes with a focus on globalization, continuous improvement, benchmarking and technical innovation.
  • Participate in strategic planning, including infrastructure budgeting.
  • Drive the use of new technology, construction methods, and materials to maximize capital investment efficiency and sustainability.
  • Deliver collaborative engineering services (CES) to a diverse team of project implementers and site engineers. Ensure prompt and thorough engineering direction, collaboration, evaluations, alternatives analysis, and feasibility studies.
  • Collaboration with Global Safety related to ARC flash, a good understanding of ARC Flash mitigation and effects on manufacturing sites.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • BS Electrical Engineer or Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 10+ years of electrical engineering experience in at least one of the following:
  • Facility or process design.
  • Manufacturing
  • IoT or machining control system design.


Even better, you may have...
  • Advanced development including PE Registration
  • Experience with programming/troubleshooting Niagara based BMS controls
  • Implementation experience of NFPA, MIOSHA, ICC, BOCA and other compliance requirements
  • Demonstrate expertise in strategic planning with creating a keen understanding of delivery requirements and overall long-term goals
  • Capability to perform, design review and implementation with an emphasis on safety, smart capital investment strategies, sustainability and maintainability, utilizing innovation and industry best practices
  • Demonstrate technical innovation, leadership and growth
  • A passion for continuous learning, technical challenges and the voice of the customer
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.


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.
This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

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.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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