Chicago Assembly Plant Program Management Plant Vehicle Team Leader

Ford Motor • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford Program Management Supervisor will report directly to the Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) Manager, and will be responsible to work with the Product Development, Manufacturing and Supplier Quality teams to get priority on Ford Explorer and Police Utility Quality issues and ensure they are resolved in a timely fashion. Primary objectives include: Initial Quality – Repairs/1000 and Cost Per Unit.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering field of study.
• Ability to think strategically, as well as respond and prioritize dynamic workload demands from different sources and collaborate with offsite teams.
• Experience in Microsoft Office with emphasis on Excel (pivots) and databases.
• Experience in Early Concern Binning, Product Development and Warranty.
• Experience with design change management and manage the change processes
• Experience working with a manufacturing facility
• Data logging and book-keeping skills, ability to manage/own multiple sources of information and cascade to appropriate team(s).
• Understanding of vehicle architectures and components.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong Interpersonal Skills and general program management familiarity: Project timing and Planning to meet business objectives.
• Strong Organization and Writing Skills.

Nice To Haves

• Strong knowledge of Ford product development processes
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills to summarize and articulate pertinent issues.
• Strong interpersonal skills with outstanding of customer mindset to understand their issues.
• Problem solving mindset with strong desire to help resolve plant quality issues.
• Ability to interface effectively with external suppliers.
• Vehicle launch or previous plant quality experience.
• Experience with Global 8D, 6-Sigma problem solving methods and Ford quality system tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead Change Control
• Manage PVT Quality Analyst’s daily workload and priorities (Provide mentoring)
• Attend daily Plant Quality meetings
• Schedule and Lead weekly Staff Meetings
• Attend weekly Export meetings
• Lead all related Management Report outs
• Manage weekly and monthly quality reports
• Onboarding new team members
• Manage non-standard Labor
• Manage Budget Tracker
• Support Chief Program Engineer Decision Forum with PVT point of view represented – Help explain the actions and business cases when needed
• Support Manage the change process

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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees