# Process Engineering Specialist (LAP)

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Louisville, KY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $72,480-121,440, $84,480-141,360, $96,720-162,120
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

You will own the build quality of vehicles produced in Final Assembly at Ford Motor Company, using data, Lean tools, and cross-functional leadership to reduce defects, prevent warranty issues, and strengthen process discipline on the production floor.

## Responsibilities

- Own internal quality metrics and external warranty performance for the Final Department

- Audit the Control Plan on the floor to confirm it is followed, and drive corrective action when it is not

- Monitor process capability for Control Plan characteristics and respond quickly when processes drift or go out of control

- Lead Variability Reduction Teams, which are cross-functional groups focused on improving internal and external quality results

- Investigate quality concerns using structured problem solving methods and data analysis. Verify that corrective actions work for both internal and supplier processes

- Teach and coach operators, supervisors, and team members in Lean methods, and push for stronger use of Lean tools in daily problem solving

- Identify throughput constraints and drive root cause improvements in Trim and Chassis

- Create and maintain process and instruction sheets that support quality standards

- Conduct ergonomic evaluations and deliver corrective actions

- Support compliance with Plant, Corporate, Governmental, and Environmental standards, including ISO

- Present quality performance, risks, and action plans to plant management

- Spend about half of your time on the production floor and half on meetings, analysis, and reporting

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (or a related technical field) from an accredited institution

- 3 or more years of experience in a manufacturing environment

- Demonstrated problem-solving and data analysis skills

- Ability to lead teams and manage conflict across functions and shifts

- Willingness to work on the production floor roughly half of each day

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, 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

## Skills

### Required
- Lean tools
- data analysis
- problem-solving
- team leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Control Plans
- process capability
- FMEA
- PPAP
- DMAIC projects
- DOE
- Kaizen events

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