# New Model Launch Specialist

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,500-$218,100
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The New Model Launch Specialist is responsible for the successful launch of new vehicle or powertrain models within a manufacturing plant. The primary goal is to ensure these launches are delivered on time, within budget, and at target quality levels.

Responsibilities:

- Manage new model launch budgets to ensure completion within or under allocated budget

- Oversee pre-production activities to ensure early builds are cost-effective and meet quality standards

- Review and approve design changes throughout the product development lifecycle

- Ensure necessary facilities and resources are available for the on-site launch team

- Track and resolve issues that could impact the launch

- Support the process of addressing concerns raised by early customer feedback vehicles

- Manage the new model program's involvement in the overall change control process

- Lead the development of strategies to reduce risks associated with parts that are not yet at full production quality

- Provide final approval for any deviations or alerts needed for parts not fully approved for production

- Support the manufacturing issue management process to ensure issues are resolved promptly

- Proactively identify and dimension launch risks, escalating for timely mitigation

- Prepare and present comprehensive launch reviews

- Lead the approval of 'OK to Build/Ship/Buy' scorecards at specific project milestones

- Lead the process for any modifications needed on-site

- Document and share lessons learned from assigned launch programs

- Collaborate extensively and cross-functionally with Launch Specialists, diverse skill teams, and leadership

- Promote consistent practices by adhering to established Launch Quality Standards (LQOS)

- Responsibly allocate team resources across different programs based on workload and skills

Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related field

- 4+ Years of experience in Powertrain/Vehicle Operations manufacturing, design, and/or program management

- Experience with Engineering Change Management and Issue Management

- Skilled in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project

- Project management and/or launch experience

- Experience with problem-solving disciplines using statistical mindsets

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

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments

- 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

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

## Skills

### Required
- Engineering Change Management
- Issue Management
- Microsoft Project
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- statistical mindsets

### Nice to have
- Master of Science degree in Engineering or related field
- Leadership/Supervisory level experience

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