Ford Motor Company

Regional Quality Director

Ford Motor Company • $130K — $155K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Automotive) or a related technical/STEM discipline.
  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in automotive manufacturing, vehicle operations, or quality management.
  • Ability to travel up to 40-50% across the six regional plant facilities.
  • Demonstrated track record of driving cross-functional problem solving across Engineering, Supply Chain, and Plant Operations in a complex, unionized environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead immediate cross-plant 'Read Across' containment for quality or supplier failures.
  • Own the daily/weekly 'Regional Quality Bowler' rhythm, driving root-cause analysis for quality gaps.
  • Direct execution of AI vision systems and IoT tools on the shop floor in coordination with IT teams.
  • Enforce strict monitoring of Error Proofing and process bypass compliance.
  • Ensure 100% adherence to 'The Ford Way' and control plans across all plants.
  • Facilitate structured sharing of 'Lessons Learned' for best practices across sites.
  • Maintain a proactive Gemba cadence, working with teams to enhance quality operations.
  • Lead the operational 'Warranty War Room' for warranty issues in collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Operationalize Integrated Launch Rhythm to incorporate learnings into future plans.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and subsidized back-up child care
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • Generous paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year
  • Paid time off with an option to purchase additional vacation.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As Regional Quality Director, you serve as the operational quality leader across the region's entire six-plant footprint. You are responsible for operationalizing and executing the regional quality strategy, driving daily and weekly quality performance, and maintaining cross-plant discipline across millions of vehicles annually.

Working in close alignment with executive quality leadership, you own operational execution, cross-plant synchronization, tactical problem-solving, and shop-floor quality rigor across the region. You ensure that all six plants execute "The Ford Way" uniformly, respond as a unified network to quality threats, and achieve target performance across First Run Capability (FRC), Rolling Throughput Yield (RTY), and Global Quality Research System (GQRS) metrics.

Responsibilities

You Will...

  • Lead immediate cross-plant "Read Across" containment when quality or supplier failures occur at any facility, including maintaining restart verification checks for the idle site.


  • KPI Operational Cadence: Own the daily/weekly "Regional Quality Bowler" rhythm across all six plants, driving root-cause resolution for FRC, RTY, and GQRS performance gaps.


  • Digital & Predictive Quality Deployment: Direct the shop-floor execution of AI vision systems, IoT torque tools, IPQD, EOL AI, and FTT dashboards in coordination with Mfg. IT and GDIA.


  • Error Proofing & Bypass Governance: Enforce strict operational monitoring of Error Proofing (EP) and process bypass modes, ensuring immediate containment and GDIA compliance.


  • Standardization & "The Ford Way": Enforce 100% compliance with "The Ford Way," SC/CC standards, and control plans across all lines, systematically eliminating unauthorized plant-specific workarounds.


  • Cross-Plant Best Practice Sharing: Facilitate structured "Lessons Learned" sharing across all six plants to ensure solutions engineered at one site are rapidly scaled across the region.


  • Gemba & Floor Leadership: Maintain an intensive Gemba cadence across all sites, working directly with plant teams to remove operational barriers to quality.


  • Warranty & Field Quality Execution: Direct the weekly operational "Warranty War Room" for 0-36 MIS truck warranty, partnering with PVT and engineering teams on design-for-manufacturing fixes.


  • Launch & Restart Synchronization: Operationalize the Integrated Launch Rhythm across facilities to ensure launch learnings are hard coded into future plans and idle plant restart protocols remain active.


  • Regulatory & Triage Support: Lead technical floor support during field investigations and NHTSA inquiries and serve as the operational lead for the CCRG Triage Team and VQR customer concerns (e.g., transmission contamination, window bounce back, e-coat boil-out).


Qualifications

You'll Have...

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Automotive) or a related technical/STEM discipline.


  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in automotive manufacturing, vehicle operations, or quality management.


  • Travel: Ability to travel up to 40-50% across the six regional plant facilities.


  • Leadership & Execution: Demonstrated track record of driving cross-functional problem solving across Engineering, Supply Chain, and Plant Operations in a complex, unionized manufacturing environment.


What you'll receive in return...

As part of the Ford family, you'll enjoy excellent compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation, and much more. You'll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition.

Our benefits summary can be found here:

2026-New-Hire-Benefit-Summary-LL4.pdf

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 leadership level 4.
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.

Onsite work of up to four days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Onsite #LI-MB3

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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Join the dynamic team at Ford Motor Company, a global leader in automotive innovation and manufacturing. At Ford, we are committed to driving human progress by providing outstanding vehicles and mobility solutions. This is an exciting time to become part of our inclusive team, where job opportunities abound and growth is not just a possibility, but a promise.

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At Ford Motor Company, you will collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Our professionals are at the forefront of automotive technology, leading projects that redefine transportation and sustainability. With a culture rooted in continuous improvement and respect for all, Ford offers a workplace where leadership, diversity training, and innovation are part of everyday life.

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Engage in work that makes a difference. Ford Motor Company is pioneering developments in electrification, autonomous vehicles, and smart mobility solutions. Our team of over 190,000 employees worldwide is dedicated to crafting experiences that improve the way the world moves.

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Working at Ford means more than just having a job; it means being part of a global family. Our culture promotes teamwork, integrity, and respect—values that underpin everything we do. We believe in nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment where every employee can thrive.

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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
* Ladders Estimates

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