Safety Investigation Program Coordinator

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

13d • $65,100 - $166,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Ford, we’re defining the future of human mobility with a strong focus on corporate responsibility. If you share this commitment, join the diverse team of passionate professionals within our Sustainability, Environment & Safety group. You’ll be a key contributor to our efforts to provide the technical and regulatory expertise necessary for advancing such critical initiatives as product safety, emissions, fuel economy, vehicle recycling and much more. This position supports the Critical Concern Review Group (CCRG) team by coordinating the day-to-day operational and administrative backbone of safety-defect and compliance investigations. The role involves tracking investigation timelines, action items, and deliverables to keep cases on schedule, scheduling, coordinating agendas for, and facilitating investigation-related meetings, assisting in the preparation of presentations, reports, and investigation documentation in accordance with document-retention guidelines, supporting submission of regulatory documentation when necessary, coordinating logistics for special vehicle and component demonstrations for technical and non-technical audiences, maintaining a lessons-learned tracker to help feed insights back into process-improvement and recall-prevention initiatives, and applying program-management tools (project plans, trackers, dashboards, RAID logs) to monitor multiple concurrent investigations and flag risks proactively.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Program/Project Management, or a related field is prefered.
• Provide dedicated program-management support to the CCRG Chair and Deputy Chair, maintaining trackers, dashboards, and status reports across multiple concurrent safety-defect and compliance investigations.
• Plan, organize, and facilitate investigation-related meetings—building agendas, driving discussion, capturing minutes and action items, and following up with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Assist in preparing investigation documentation, presentations, and reports, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with document-retention and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional communication and information-gathering among Product Development, Manufacturing, Customer Service, Suppliers, and field organizations to support fact-finding for active investigations.
• Support logistics and coordination for special vehicle and component demonstrations, special tests, and field surveys.
• Maintain and update the team's lessons-learned repository.
• Partner with regional and global teams to help coordinate resolution of worldwide vehicle concerns, ensuring alignment on timelines and next steps.

Nice To Haves

• PMP, CAPM, or similar program/project management certification.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional meetings or facilitating task forces in an engineering, automotive, or regulatory environment.
• Familiarity with safety, quality, or compliance investigation processes.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Tracking investigation timelines, action items, and deliverables to keep cases on schedule.
• Scheduling, coordinating agendas for, and facilitating investigation-related meetings.
• Assisting in the preparation of presentations, reports, and investigation documentation in accordance with document-retention guidelines.
• Supporting submission of regulatory documentation when necessary.
• Coordinating logistics for special vehicle and component demonstrations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintaining a lessons-learned tracker to help feed insights back into process-improvement and recall-prevention initiatives.
• Applying program-management tools (project plans, trackers, dashboards, RAID logs) to monitor multiple concurrent investigations and flag risks proactively.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree