Quality Supervisor- Future Model

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. The Quality Supervisor- Future Model role focuses on preventing quality issues through architecture decisions, systemic design improvements, competitive benchmarking, and quality-by-design practices.

The primary responsibilities for this position include:

• Architectural Quality Enablement: Lead identification of architectural improvements that prevent future quality issues before program execution. Partner with platform, systems engineering, and product development teams to embed quality into future vehicle architectures.
• Future Model Quality Strategy: Develop long-term quality improvement roadmaps for future vehicle programs. Translate quality lessons learned into platform-level standards, requirements, and design practices.
• Competitive Benchmarking: Lead benchmarking studies of competitor vehicles, technologies, architectures, and quality performance. Identify best-in-class practices and emerging trends that can improve future product quality and customer experience.
• Systemic Read-Across & Defect Prevention: Lead enterprise-wide defect prevention initiatives across future vehicle programs. Ensure quality concerns identified in current programs are systematically analyzed and addressed in future architectures.
• Quality Analytics & Technical Assessment: Evaluate quality trends, warranty data, customer feedback, and engineering performance metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with Product Development, Systems Engineering, Launch, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, and Technical Platform teams. Influence strategic decisions that improve quality outcomes across future vehicle programs.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in automotive systems, software, electronics, quality, systems engineering, product development, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience managing technical programs or projects, including scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, and status reporting.
• Experience defining metrics, building dashboards, and using data to track performance, identify trends, prioritize work, and improve issue-resolution outcomes.