# Paint Quality Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,100-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, you will help transform the future for customers, communities, and families. As a Paint Quality Engineer, you will provide dedicated technical support and guidance for paint appearance, durability, process stability, defect elimination, and quality system compliance within the Assembly Plant environment.

**Responsibilities**

- Analyze warranty and quality data to identify recurring defects, failure trends, customer concerns, and opportunities to reduce warranty costs and repeat issues.

- Support ISO and quality audits by ensuring processes, documentation, and records meet required quality standards and by driving corrective actions for audit findings.

- Lead Variation Reduction Team (VRT) activities to identify process variation, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.

- Govern the Uniform Paint Process (UPP) by monitoring process performance, reducing paint defects and variation, and driving continuous process improvements.

- Develop and maintain Process Control Plans (PCPs) that define critical process controls, inspection requirements, reaction plans, and quality standards.

- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, and Operations to solve complex quality issues, improve process capability, and prevent recurring defects.

**Qualifications**

- Education & Experience: bachelor's or associate degree in chemical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent practical experience and demonstrated technical qualification.

- 3 to 7+ years of hands-on experience in automotive assembly plant paint shop operations, OEM paint engineering, or Tier 1 paint/chemical supplier technical service.

- Quality & Operational Excellence: Hands-on experience driving Quality Management System compliance, root-cause analysis (8D) and Lean manufacturing processes.

- Paint Operations Knowledge: Strong experience with paint shop materials, chemicals, and automated spray booth equipment.

- Automotive Paint Standards & ISO Compliance: Proficient in OEM paint process guidelines, standardized coating quality controls, and ISO regulatory compliance.

**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.

**Salary**

- Salary grade 5: $65,100-$109,300

- Salary grade 6: $74,300-$124,500

- Salary grade 7: $86,600-$144,900

- Salary grade 8: $99,100-$166,200

## Skills

### Required
- chemical engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Quality Management System
- root-cause analysis
- Lean manufacturing processes
- paint shop materials
- automated spray booth equipment
- OEM paint process guidelines
- ISO regulatory compliance

### Nice to have
- Leadership
- Data-Driven Analysis
- Communication

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