# Sr. Maintenance Engineer, Ford Energy

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Glendale, KY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,100 - $166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As a Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will serve as the technical authority and strategic leader for maintenance operations across Ford Energy's battery cell and BESS module/container manufacturing lines.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own and continuously evolve the Maintenance Operating System (MOS) strategy across the production and facilities organization.

- Lead cross-functional optimization of production processes and maintenance methodologies across battery cell and BESS assembly equipment.

- Direct major equipment rebuilds, capital projects, and shutdown planning in partnership with engineering, operations, and site leadership.

- Architect and govern predictive and preventative maintenance strategies to achieve and sustain near-100% equipment uptime.

- Own the MOS Board and enterprise maintenance data strategy, leveraging Maximo to drive metrics reporting, forecasting, and long-term reliability planning.

- Champion a continuous improvement culture, building capability across all levels of the maintenance and production organization.

Leadership & Culture:

- Embrace the Gemba philosophy: Regularly engage on the production floor to assess equipment health, gather frontline insight, and resolve issues in real time.

- Proactively identify and eliminate systemic barriers and equipment constraints impacting production throughput.

- Partner cross-functionally with production, engineering, and quality teams to support new model and equipment launches.

- Serve as a senior mentor and technical coach, developing the skills and capabilities of technicians and engineers across the organization.

- Lead by example on the floor, instilling a culture of equipment ownership and quality accountability.

- Take full ownership of high-complexity projects, driving them to completion with minimal oversight.

Strategic – Reliability:

- Shape new equipment design, specification, and procurement strategy as the site scales battery cell and BESS assembly capacity.

- Lead readiness planning for new model and equipment launches.

- Own spare parts strategy and inventory governance to ensure alignment with long-term maintenance demand.

- Report on key reliability and maintenance performance metrics to site and functional leadership.

Capabilities for Success:

- Resilient Problem Solver: Rapidly diagnoses complex equipment issues and drives root-cause resolution under pressure.

- Self-Starter: Independently owns and drives complex, high-visibility projects to completion.

- Strong Communicator: Bridges technical and organizational levels, translating floor-level insight into strategic action.

- Agile Mindset: Thrives across shifts and in the ambiguity of a startup manufacturing environment.

Qualifications:

- Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering.

- Experience: 7+ years of progressive maintenance engineering experience, including demonstrated ability to lead complex equipment reliability programs and mentor technical staff.

- Skills: Advanced computer proficiency; strong communicator capable of training and coaching technicians and engineers across the organization.

- Flexibility to support business needs by working across various shifts.

- Domestic and international travel may be required.

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
- Maintenance Engineering
- Leadership
- Communication
- Problem-Solving
- Maximo

### Nice to have
- Lean implementation
- AutoCAD
- Excel
- Data analysis
- Battery or energy storage manufacturing

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