Description
We're looking for a Manufacturing Launch Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our Advanced Industrial Technology Platforms (ATP) team, you'll play a critical role in building and scaling industrial platforms, technologies, and capabilities that unlock Ford Firsts to drive sustained competitive advantage in manufacturing.
In this role, you'll work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and implement new technologies and processes that improve manufacturing efficiency and quality. You'll also be responsible for collecting feedback from customers and stakeholders to identify areas for improvement and develop solutions to address them.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering, project management, or a related field. They should have experience working in a launch environment for new process equipment and/or new model vehicle programs, as well as experience in manufacturing engineering and process changes.
If you're a motivated and detail-oriented individual who is passionate about innovation and continuous improvement, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Work with each ATP Product Vertical to understand the problems being targeted with available products and products in development
- Develop and maintain expertise on available products as they roll out to customers, working in partnership with ATP Product Teams to deploy flawlessly and support for the life of the product
- Collect feedback on opportunities, concerns, and requests to create a 2-way sustainable communication channel between implementation and product development activities
- Support the communication of roadmap activities from the plant floor through the Directors of Manufacturing
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering, Project Management, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- 1+ years in a Launch environment for new process equipment and/or New Model Vehicle Programs
- 1+ years in Manufacturing Engineering working to develop and understand the challenges of process changes and process efficiency
- 2+ years of progressive responsibilities in manufacturing operations leadership
- Proven success leading large-scale transformations on multi-site manufacturing environments using the Ford Production System (FPS) or any similar operational excellence framework
- Demonstrated record of building trust with employees and creating positive and healthy cultures through excellent servant leadership skills
- Deep expertise in executing Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and Policy deployment events. Experience in managing lean maturity assessment models
- Aspiration for continued career growth and new challenges
- A willingness to learn, the flexibility and agility to adapt as products grow from concepts into common place pillars of Manufacturing Operations
- A willingness to travel (50-75%) between our sites, respond quickly, create connections across multiple teams, and nurture relationships to promote reliable partners at each manufacturing location
Benefits:
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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:
This position is a range of salary grades 5-8 and ranges from $63,480-162,120.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.