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).
The Technical Documentation Engineer owns the creation, control, and governance of technical quality documentation across the Ford Energy Quality organization. This role ensures that DFMEA/PFMEA records, test reports, RCA documentation, and quality process standards are consistent, traceable, current, and instantly retrievable when needed for an audit, certification review, or internal investigation.
Responsibilities
- Documentation Standards & Governance
- Develop and maintain technical documentation standards and templates for quality processes, test reports, and engineering records.
- Establish document numbering, classification, and metadata conventions to ensure consistency across the organization.
- Partner with engineering and quality teams to standardize templates for DFMEA/PFMEA, test reports, and RCA records and ensure alignment between all documents.
- Document Control & Change Management
- Manage document control processes, including revision history, approval workflows, and archival, in coordination with the PLM Engineer.
- Administer document review and approval cycles, ensuring appropriate stakeholder sign-off before release.
- Maintain obsolescence/retirement processes for superseded documentation.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technical Writing, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience with document control systems and technical writing in a regulated engineering environment.
- Strong attention to detail and process discipline.
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 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.
The salary range for this position is:
- Salary grade 6: $74,300-$124,500
- Salary grade 7: $86,600-$144,900
- Salary grade 8: $99,100-$166,200