Ford Racing Raptor Launch Manager

Ford • Allen Park, MI

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more! If good is just never good enough for you, Ford Racing shares your passion for striving for perfection. We’re responsible for creating and developing high performance production vehicles and competition vehicles which are best in class on road and off road. Help us drive excellence in capability, performance, and customer experiences on the track, in the dunes, on the rocks, and on road driving quality that enable vehicle functional attributes that are first in the industry.

Requirements

• Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering required.
• Minimum of 15 years experience in Ford Plant Vehicle Teams or Product Engineering Support of OEM vehicle launches.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills.

Nice To Haves

• Engineering Masters of Science degree or higher
• Working understanding of Functional requirements, failure mode effects, causes, severity and detection methods (DFMEAs)
• Ability to develop clear working level documents and management presentations as well as clear/concise communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel to both Ford and supplier domestic and foreign locations.

Responsibilities

• Technical leader in Ford Performance to lead the builds and launch and quality plans for both internal and external suppliers to deliver Raptors.
• Manage team of engineers covering the Plant Vehicle Teams, prototype build and supplier technical assistance.
• Responsible for efficient and timely execution of prototypes for metrics of cost and engineering resources.
• Lead and execute of DCV builds.
• Lead the Ford Racing Production Vehicle Launches for all prebuilds TT to OKTB
• Coordinate delivery of all Product Development Metric on Launch Score Card
• Co-Lead the Launch Jira / issues resolution process.
• Coordinate carry-over issues with PVT Managers during launch
• Lead the PPAP Metrics with Ford Racing Production Vehicle STA Engineer
• Support the Ford Racing Production Vehicle Body Exterior team in PIST & Fit to Nominal execution to launch standards.
• Quality from the planning to DCV checkpoint to FRAP capability assessments going prior to TT and validation on customer acceptance cascades to station and process.
• Lead the Vehicle Quality Reviews for Ford Racing Raptors during the monthly reviews at the production facility.
• Report on quality status weekly with daily claims, engage in the monthly roadmap and engage internal Ford Racing Production Vehicle engineers & peers along with external engineering teams to deliver the overall quality targets.

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