Ford Motor Company

Manufacturing Launch Engineer

Ford Motor Company$63K — $162K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering, Project Management, or equivalent experience.
  • 1+ years in Launch environments for new process equipment or New Model Vehicle Programs.
  • 1+ years in Manufacturing Engineering with a focus on process changes and efficiency.
  • 2+ years of progressive responsibilities in manufacturing operations leadership.
  • Proven success in leading large-scale transformations in multi-site manufacturing using a recognized operational excellence framework.
  • Demonstrated ability to foster a positive work culture through servant leadership skills.
  • Expertise in executing lean methodologies such as Kaizen and Value Stream Mapping.

Responsibilities

  • Gain product insight by collaborating with ATP Product Verticals to tackle targeted challenges.
  • Become the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on newly released products, ensuring flawless customer deployment and ongoing support.
  • Engage with customers to gather feedback and maintain an effective communication channel between product development and implementation.
  • Support communication of manufacturing roadmaps to leadership, aligning plant floor insights with director level expectations.
  • Drive customer engagement initiatives to enhance user experience and product integration into operations.
  • Collect and analyze customer feedback to inform product improvements and developmental priorities.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave options.
  • Tuition assistance and family building benefits including adoption and fertility treatments.
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members.
  • Generous paid time off, including holidays and community service.
  • Active employee resource groups that promote inclusivity and connection.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

Advanced Industrial Technology Platforms (ATP)

Vision: Build Once, Scale Everywhere.
Mission: We build and scale industrial platforms, technologies, and capabilities that unlock Ford Firsts to drive sustained competitive advantage in manufacturing.
Mantra: Scale what matters. Win what's next.

This team is leading customer interface as ATP delivers thousands of instances of internally developed and managed ATP products that are designed to change how adopt new technology in Manufacturing Operations. ATP Launch - Internal go-to-market strategies that create demand and drive deployment, this position will be at the foundation of the transformational deployments.

Responsibilities

Product Awareness - Working with each ATP Product Vertical to understand the problems being targeted with available products and products in development

Product Expertise - Hands-on experience to become the SME on available products as they roll out to customers, working in partnership with ATP Product Teams to deploy flawlessly and support for the life of the product

Customer Engagement - Collect Feedback on opportunities, concerns, and requests to create a 2-way sustainable communication channel between implementation and product development activities

Leadership Alignment Strategy - Support the communication of roadmap activities from the plant floor through the Directors of Manufacturing

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering, Project Management, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
  • 1+ years in a Launch environment for new process equipment and/or New Model Vehicle Programs
  • 1+ years in Manufacturing Engineering working to develop and understand the challenges of process changes and process efficiency
  • 2+ years of progressive responsibilities in manufacturing operations leadership.
  • Proven success leading large-scale transformations on multi-site manufacturing environments using the Ford Production System (FPS) or any similar operational excellence framework.
  • Demonstrated record of building trust with employees and creating positive and healthy cultures through excellent servant leadership skills.
  • Deep expertise in executing Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and Policy deployment events. Experience in managing lean maturity assessment models.
  • Aspiration for continued career growth and new challenges.
  • A willingness to learn, the flexibility and agility to adapt as products grow from concepts into common place pillars of Manufacturing Operations.
  • A willingness to travel (50-75%) between our sites, respond quickly, create connections across multiple teams, and nurture relationships to promote reliable partners at each manufacturing location.


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 childcare 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 range of salary grades 5-8 and ranges from $63,480-162,120.

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.

Domestic relocation is 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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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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1903
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