# 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 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70087?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_219f2cd9-6be ## 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. This leadership role is paramount to achieving launch excellence for new vehicle and powertrain models across Ford's North America Manufacturing Plants. The Supervisor will drive success by leading, mentoring, and empowering a high-performing team of launch engineers and will collaborate cross-functionally with diverse skill teams, extending through all management tiers, to ensure adherence to critical launch processes and standards. ## Responsibilities - Budget Management: Ensuring the new model launch is completed within or under the allocated budget. - Pre-Production Oversight: Managing all activities leading up to the initial prototype and pre-production vehicle builds, ensuring these early builds are cost-effective and meet quality standards. - Design Change Approval: Reviewing and approving design changes throughout the product development lifecycle, making sure these changes are supported in pre-production builds and thoroughly tested before the official launch. - Team Support Setup: Ensuring all necessary facilities and resources are available for the on-site launch team. - Issue Resolution: Overseeing an issue management system to track and resolve all issues that could impact the launch. - Customer Feedback Integration: Supporting the process of addressing concerns raised by early customer feedback vehicles. - Change Control Management: Managing the new model program's involvement in the overall change control process. - Risk Mitigation: Leading the development of strategies to reduce risks associated with parts that are not yet at full production quality. - Production Readiness Approval: Leading the 'Open to Go' process, which includes verifying the origin and quality of parts and providing final approval for any deviations or alerts needed for parts not fully approved for production. - Plant Issue Tracking: Supporting the manufacturing issue management process to ensure issues are resolved promptly. - Reporting: Proactively identifying and dimensioning launch risks, escalating for timely mitigation, and clearly articulating status in NMP assessments. - Meeting Coordination: Managing the schedule of on-site launch meetings and coordinating daily launch activities. - Launch Review Presentations: Preparing and presenting comprehensive launch reviews. - Production Readiness Scorecards: Leading the approval of 'OK to Build/Ship/Buy' scorecards at specific project milestones. - On-Site Modifications: Leading the process for any modifications needed on-site, tracking these changes, and working with the plant and suppliers to manage part updates and inventory reduction plans. - Lessons Learned: Documenting and sharing lessons learned from assigned launch programs to improve future launches. - Collaboration: Collaborating extensively and cross-functionally with Launch Specialists, diverse skill teams, and leadership spanning all levels. - Standardization: Promoting consistent practices by adhering to established Launch Quality Standards. - Team Leadership: Responsibly allocating 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, with Project management or launch experience. - Skilled in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project. - Experience with Engineering Change Management and Issue Management. - 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, 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 - Engineering Change Management - Issue Management - Microsoft Project - Excel - Word - PowerPoint - statistical mindsets ### Nice to have - Master of Science degree in Engineering or related field - 6+ Years of experience in Powertrain/Vehicle Operations manufacturing, design, and/or program management - Leadership/Supervisory level experience --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70087?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)