# Senior Manager Quality Assurance

**Company**: Ford Energy
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,700-268,300
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

Ford Energy is seeking a Senior Manager for Quality Assurance. As the senior quality leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineering supervisors and quality engineers, owning the end-to-end quality operating model, and managing the total 'Cost of Quality' and warranty exposure.

Responsibilities:

- Quality System Ownership & Governance: Own the quality operating model, establish and enforce high-level quality standards, and manage the 'clock speed' of the quality organization.

- Strategic Quality & Financial Accountability: Manage the total 'Cost of Quality', develop and own quality standards for global licensing partners, and represent Ford Energy Quality in discussions with internal and external executives.

- End-to-End Technical Quality: Drive rigorous Failure Mode Avoidance processes, oversee validation strategy, and lead Root Cause Analysis for complex system failures.

- Regulatory, Certification & Manufacturing Support: Lead the strategy and execution for regulatory compliance and certification testing, manage customer certification and accreditation processes, and provide technical leadership for End of Line and Factory Acceptance Testing processes.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.

- 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Systems Engineering, or Product Development within the energy or automotive sectors.

- 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams.

- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional issue resolution and communicate complex technical quality risks to executive-level stakeholders.

- Expertise in Failure Mode Avoidance tools (DFMEA, PFMEA).

- Deep understanding of high-voltage battery systems or power electronics.

- Experience managing the 'Cost of Quality' and warranty analytics for large-scale industrial or automotive programs.

- Direct experience with global supplier quality or managing quality standards for technology licensing agreements.

- Direct experience with stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).

- Black Belt or Master Black Belt certification in Six Sigma or equivalent methodologies.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Quality Assurance
- Failure Mode Avoidance
- High-voltage battery systems
- Power electronics
- Warranty analytics
- Battery Energy Storage Systems
- Six Sigma

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Engineering or an MBA
- Experience with grid-scale certification standards (UL, IEC, NFPA)

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