Ford Motor Company

Launch Engineer

Ford Motor Company$86K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related field; or equivalent experience.
  • 2-3 years of automotive industry experience required.
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the launch parts and processes effectively.
  • Lead communication on program changes with launch coordinators.
  • Prepare the plant launch team by identifying workstation needs and part issues.
  • Participate in vehicle builds, ensuring all parts are present and resolving issues.
  • Utilize Ford systems like CMMS, LQOS, and others for operational excellence.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Tuition assistance and vehicle discount programs.
  • Established employee resource groups and community service PTO.
  • Generous holiday schedule including a week off between Christmas and New Year.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

If good is just never good enough for you, Ohio Assembly Plant shares your passion for striving for perfection. We're responsible for driving the continuous improvement efforts that enable Ford to deliver the highest quality products and services. Help us drive operational excellence through such innovative, proprietary initiatives as our Global Product Development System, Quality Operating System and New Model Launch. Work cross-functionally and closely with integrated teams in Manufacturing, Product Development, Purchasing, and Vehicle Operations.

In this position...

You will be responsible to deliver new model vehicle launches at Ohio Assembly Plant on time, on cost, and at the targeted quality levels. This is accomplished by managing the launch parts/processes, communicating program change, preparing the plant launch team, and participating in builds.

Responsibilities:

Manage the launch parts and processes.
  • Create, maintain, and share an OTG (Open to Go) parts list for the launch team.
  • Review the BOM for errors/issues that would disrupt the build/production.
  • Compare available Teledata against prior model year for new or changed content.
  • Request AIS box updates based on changes to new and current part usage.
  • Audit for deformas that may need updated based on content or Teledata changes.
  • Work collaboratively to assess part pick sheets and initiate respective changes.

Communicate program change.
  • Lead OTG discussion with launch coordinators and PSG team.
  • Participate in daily Change Control meetings.
  • Participate in regular CLL (Cycle Line Layout) meetings.
  • Participate in forward PAT meetings.

Prepare the plant launch team.
  • Work with GME to identify and resolve workstation needs, part issues, and broadcast changes.
  • Review vehicle specifications. Ensure new content is adequately represented.
  • Worth with department management, launch team, and scheduling to develop a build schedule by vehicle/build.
  • Produce and share launch communication to department management.
  • Will contain build dates, vehicle specifications, BOMs, and facility/tooling changes.

Participate in builds.
  • Attend pre-production builds at Roush and/or NMPDC.
  • Verify parts are present and ready for each program/build.
  • Walk vehicles through the plant during build and document issues.
  • Ensure issues are captured in AIMS.

Work with Ford systems.
  • CMMS - Common Material Management System
  • LQOS - Launch Quality Operating System
  • OTG - Open to Go
  • QLS - Quality Leadership System
  • WERS - Worldwide Engineering Release System

Travel could be as much as 25%; domestic and possible international.

Rotate between Launch team roles as necessary.
  • Schedule/pay hourly team members using WF1 (Work Force 1).


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Engineering Degree BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related degree; or foreign equivalency degree, or a combination of equivalent experience and education
  • 2-3 years automotive experience required
  • Must be willing to travel domestically and internationally
  • Excellent communication skills (written and oral) required.
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills preferred, particularly Excel.


Even better, you may have...
  • 5 years automotive experience required; union experience preferred.
  • Experience working in a manufacturing environment with Launch
  • Excellent communication skills (written and oral) required.
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills preferred, particularly Excel.


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.

About Ford Motor Company

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
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Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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