Description
We're driving the future of automotive innovation, and our Low Voltage Power Supply Core team is at the forefront of this transformation. As a highly motivated and experienced Design Supervisor, you'll lead a dynamic team of engineers dedicated to the design, development, and implementation of advanced low-voltage power supply component hardware. This includes crucial components like 12V Lead Acid Batteries & Development of Low Voltage Sodium Ion Batteries. Potentially also lead team on Starter Motor, Alternator and Belt Integrated Starter Generators as well.
In this pivotal role, you'll be instrumental in pioneering innovative solutions that enhance vehicle-level efficiency and meet stringent functional attributes, directly contributing to Ford's commitment to technological leadership and sustainable mobility. These traditional products are all in the middle of major design updates for use in 12V & 48V applications.
Responsibilities:
Team & Technical Leadership: Guide and mentor a team of engineers through the complete lifecycle of low-voltage power supply Battery & Rotating Electrical hardware, from initial design to final implementation.
Program Execution & Quality Assurance: Drive rigorous program execution, ensuring adherence to established processes, comprehensive sign-offs, and meticulous documentation to meet all quality and functional requirements.
Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify and address complex technical issues, leading root cause analysis, defining effective corrective actions, and overseeing their implementation. You will leverage quality tools such as Global 8D problem solving to communicate status and drive resolutions.
Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate critical trade-off discussions with key stakeholders, ensuring robust engineering reviews and decision forums lead to clear alignment and optimal outcomes.
Supplier & Architecture Interface: Serve as the primary liaison between the module suppliers and the vehicle architecture team, fostering strong collaboration.
Supplier Requirement Management: Partner with suppliers to establish and ensure robust, consistent sign-off processes for all technical requirements.
Component Quality Ownership: Take full ownership of component quality across the entire product lifecycle, spanning forward models, current production, and past models.
Industrialization & Launch Management: Lead the industrialization and successful launch of low-voltage power supply component hardware, aggressively managing change requests and durability failure issues with an unwavering commitment to a zero-defect mentality.
Financial Planning Input: Review annual Financial Planning volumes to assess and incorporate changes in planning assumptions for all low-voltage power supply hardware.
Efficiency & Value Engineering: Spearhead design efficiency and Total Value Management (TVM) studies for targeted programs and components, driving cost optimization and performance enhancements.