# Industrial Engineer, Ford Energy

**Company**: Ford Energy
**Location**: Glendale, KY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,100-$166,200
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive

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## 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).

## Job Description

As an Industrial Engineer at Ford Energy, you will lead the design and optimization of high-volume production lines and manufacturing systems for grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems.

## Responsibilities

### Greenfield Production Excellence & Manufacturing Systems

- Design and implement the Ford Energy Production System (FEPS), focusing on standardized work, line balancing, and optimized workstation layouts.

- Develop labor standards and manpower requirements for cell, module, and pack assembly, ensuring maximum utilization and efficiency.

- Analyze production constraints and conduct equipment cycle time analysis to optimize "Cells Per Minute" (CPM) and overall plant throughput.

- Design and refine station layouts using CAD, integrating tooling, material presentation, and error-proofing (Poka-Yoke) to ensure "First Time Through" (FTT) quality.

- Conduct ergonomic job evaluations and implement workstation designs that meet the highest safety standards for high-speed automated production.

- Engage regularly on the production floor to identify bottlenecks, observe standardized work adherence, and solve manufacturing problems in real-time.

- Serve as a technical mentor to the Production and Operations teams, providing coaching on lean principles, Takt time vs. Cycle time, and waste elimination.

- Mitigate risks in the launch phase to ensure seamless equipment buy-offs and successful New Model Program (NMP) integration.

- Work cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Operations to achieve Ford Energy’s Vision, Mission, and Values.

### Leadership & Culture

- Establish and track Production Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), labor cost per unit, and value-added vs. non-value-added activity.

- Lead cost-savings initiatives and Kaizen events focused on reducing scrap, improving uptime, and optimizing floor space utilization.

- Manage the Engineering Change Management (ECM) process for the production floor, ensuring all process modifications are documented and labor allocations are updated accurately.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related Engineering field.

- 3-5+ years of progressive experience in Industrial Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering within a high-volume production environment.

- Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, MODAPTS, and manufacturing simulation tools.

- Experience in Greenfield site development or high-volume automotive/battery/electronics manufacturing is highly preferred.

## 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
- Industrial Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- AutoCAD
- MODAPTS
- manufacturing simulation tools

### Nice to have
- Greenfield site development
- high-volume automotive/battery/electronics manufacturing

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