Battery Pack Program Leader

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Battery Pack Program Leader will oversee the development of Battery Pack programs across Ford North American Sites. This role ensures alignment with the Bill of Process and leads the delivery of Ford’s Global Product Development System (GPDS) milestones and program targets, including timing, process, and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 10+ years in of Manufacturing experience (ex. Machine design knowledge)
• Experience managing suppliers, placing complex/detailed orders
• Strong Project Leadership skills
• Excellent communication and project management skills when interacting with plant, union, suppliers, PD, etc
• Self-starting, self-motivated individual with a learning and growth mindset
• Results-oriented mind set
• Strong organizational, communication, and influencing skills
• Ability to travel up to 75% during Install, Commissioning, and Launch phases

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree
• Management experience
• Manufacturing Engineering Experience

Responsibilities

• Deliver battery programs safely on time, at cost, with quality from <PSC> to launch / ROC
• Lead a team of program/process/test engineers through program milestones ensuring deliverable completion
• Manage BME support groups (Process, Test, Digital Assembly, IE, Ergo)
• Interface with critical x-functional teams (PD, MSAP, Fordland, MP&L, STA, GME, NML, MFG QUAL, IT, PURCH, B&F)
• Own the master program schedule, coordinating engineering teams & suppliers to complete milestones on time
• Track program progress against schedule and drive actions to maintain launch timing and transition plan
• Manage equipment delivery, runoff, shipment, installation, commissioning, and build event timing
• Lead x-functional discussions to facilitate issue resolution and remove roadblocks impacting critical-path activities
• Drive the completion of all phases of MIDAS (Machine Identification Acceptance System) approvals from the relevant engineers and plant operations
• Own master program financial commitment curves and funding plans with engineering teams
• Manage budgets, purchase orders, cost reviews, and financial reporting for program reviews
• Manage prototype and spare-part procurement, including lead times, ordering, tracking, and delivery
• Manage change requests and study activities, including cost, timing, and issue impact assessments
• Lead regular occurring program meetings to review status, issues, action items, risks and key developments
• Maintain internal and external program SharePoint sites, documentation, and user access
• Visit suppliers to review timing, equipment design, build progress, and runoff readiness
• Travel to manufacturing sites to support equipment install, commissioning, pre-production and production builds
• Lead site-based engineers throughout the delivery of equipment to production readiness
• Utilize the necessary program tools and software (JIRA, Smartsheet, Global Integrator, MIDAS, iERP, PFR, etc.)

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager