Power Supply / Electrification TPM

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

In this position, success as a Technical Program Manager in our Power & Electrification layer requires someone who is centered around product and engineering excellence with a bias for action. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; successfully partnering with a wide group of disciplines across the company. You will own cross-team initiatives, identify best practices and bring your industry experience to bear on a company-wide scale. You will engage with complex engineering programs, demonstrating leadership and a strong command of the tools and process required to achieve the teams’ goals. You will lead hardware & software programs in a principled way, and by example when the opportunities arise. You will have consummate communications skills, keeping up- and down-stream dependencies well aligned, and all stakeholders well-informed. You’re as comfortable writing clear and concise content for leadership as you are leading a system design meeting. Ideal candidates will have experienced multiple product cycles involving hardware, software, and services, including up-and down-stream dependencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar related technical field.
• 6+ years working experience in product or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services
• 3+ years working in a technical capacity or working closely with an engineering team
• Familiarity with modern DevOps tools (ie: JIRA, ADO, etc.)
• Familiarity with modern software development practices (continuous integration / continuous deployment)
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines (engineering, product, design, QA, etc.) on high complexity projects throughout the entire product lifecycle
• Experience in developing control systems for low voltage system and/or electrified powertrain systems, such as high voltage battery control and power conversion ECUs, and/or
• Experience in systems engineering, software development, and hardware integration of Electrification functions and components

Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders to define, scope, prioritize and deliver major strategic initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.
• Understand the needs of stakeholders across the company and influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on the prioritized initiatives.
• Lead the defining and tracking of success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results [OKRs].
• Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans, and resourcing plans to enable Ford to meet customer commitments across all customer constituencies.
• Lead team members on modern, world-class, hardware & software development practices including CICD and immaculate execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, issue triage, backlog management and daily scrum leveraging DevOps tools like Jira or ADO).
• Personally own the relationships with other divisions at Ford, ensuring dependencies are met and quality of deliverables is high.
• Embody the voice of the customer, guiding your team to be data-driving in its decision-making.

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