Team Manager-Quality

Ford Motor Company • Cincinnati, OH

12d • $112,680 - $212,760 • Onsite

About The Position

The Team Manager-Quality is responsible for ensuring that every unit built and shipped to the customer meets or exceeds expectations. The role manages pre-delivery operations and finished-vehicle inspection and inventory processes, and coordinates quality feedback, audits, containment, and corrective actions with plant departments. It also oversees department staffing and costs, develops plant personnel in quality practices, leads the plant Quality Policy Deployment Process, and promotes teamwork across hourly and salaried employees.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Strong analytical background.
• Language skills as required by the job.
• Demonstrated leadership in One FORD leadership behaviors, combined with outstanding interpersonal, team-building, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong knowledge of the Ford Production System/Quality Operating System.

Responsibilities

• Manage all pre-delivery operations, including CAL, MVL, Rough Road, and Ship to Gate counts.
• Manage finished-vehicle inspection processes and coordinate ongoing reviews and updates to measurement systems and mandatory process requirements based on customer feedback, including GQRS, warranty, and export-market feedback.
• Manage finished-vehicle inventory within plant objectives.
• Manage department direct and indirect staffing.
• Ensure government regulation, safety, and inspection audits, as well as critical-function system reviews, are conducted properly and reported to prevent campaigns.
• Coordinate real-time plant quality-concern feedback to production departments.
• Work with plant personnel to initiate appropriate containment and corrective action.
• Oversee pre-delivery and finished-vehicle audits for all pre-build events.
• Manage department costs to meet objectives.
• Develop and mentor plant personnel on QOS, and coach and train them in the appropriate use of standard quality tools.
• Champion and deliver the plant Policy Deployment Process for Quality.
• Promote teamwork among hourly and salaried employees.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up childcare.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• 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
• Education Level: High school or GED