# Quality Engineer, Ford Energy **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Glendale, KY **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $74,300-$166,200 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70090?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_09905b4e-442 ## Description Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS). As a Quality Engineer at our Glendale, Kentucky battery park, you will be at the forefront of the most historic transformation in the energy systems industry. In this critical role, you will: - Lead with Purpose: Build and lead an agile team to deliver the advanced quality standards and technology that drive the future. - Innovate: Use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions during the design, construction, and launch phases of a massive Greenfield manufacturing site. - Empower Others: Create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought, and foster leadership in others to make quality a shared organisational responsibility. ## Responsibilities ### Greenfield Quality Excellence & Manufacturing Systems - Apply engineering principles and analytical techniques to drive continuous improvement in automated battery manufacturing processes. - Play an integral part in the Launch process by establishing and monitoring quality target levels at the workstation level for each build phase to validate workstation readiness. - Manage and direct Statistical Process Control (SPC) activities, utilising control charts, data collection, and GD&T to minimise manufacturing variation. - Conduct process audits to ensure the production process adheres to strict guidelines, specific process standards, and environmental/quality compliance (including ISO 14001, ISO 9001, and IATF 16949). - Support efficiency planning to ensure workstations are properly set up with quality risks and failure modes (PFMEA) proactively identified and addressed. ### Leadership & Culture - Develop "Leaders as Teachers": Function as the leader and subject matter expert for your specified section of the production line. Coordinate activities and drive improvements to achieve plant KPIs. - Embrace the Gemba Philosophy: Regularly engage on the production floor to act as the team leader in resolving assembly-related concerns and driving lean manufacturing initiatives. - Remove Barriers: Lead variability reduction, lean manufacturing best practices, and the development of solutions for throughput constraints. - Champion Transparency: Work cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, and Suppliers. - Flexibility: Ability to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation, including flexibility to work across shifts, weekends, and extended hours as business needs dictate. ### Strategic Management & Integrity - Develop relevant KPIs and data visualisations to enable a clear, real-time understanding of actual vs. expected quality and process performance. - Lead the development of interim and permanent corrective actions to resolve quality and production issues using 8D methodology and structured problem-solving tools. - Provide robust change management leadership, ensuring all process, equipment, and product modifications are executed with zero impact on quality integrity. ## Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, or related field). - 3+ years of manufacturing process or quality engineering experience in an automated manufacturing facility. ## Benefits - Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidised 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. ## Skills ### Required - Statistical Process Control - GD&T - PFMEA - ISO 14001 - ISO 9001 - IATF 16949 - 3D CAD - Lean Manufacturing - Six Sigma ### Nice to have - Master’s degree in Engineering or an MBA - Technical Knowledge of statistics - Working knowledge of industrial controls and automation - Startup Experience - Experience with advanced manufacturing technologies - Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Green/Black Belt certification - Expertise in 8D, 5-Why, FMEA, PPAP, DOEs, and Value Stream Mapping --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70090?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)