# Ford Racing Program Management - Lead Controls Analyst

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$144,900 or $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

You'll be part of the team working on the next elite niche production vehicle in the Ford Racing portfolio of high-performance vehicles.

You will support program timing, workplans, and GPDS deliverables, track milestones from concept through production readiness, and drive issue resolution and recovery actions.

Key responsibilities include:

- Supporting program timing, workplans, and GPDS deliverables

- Leading core program forums such as Program Steering Team meetings and milestone readiness reviews

- Building and delivering program health reporting, status, and risk summaries

- Maintaining program assumptions and facilitating assumption reviews

- Supporting sourcing and launch readiness with Purchasing and cross-functional partners

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

- 3+ years of experience in automotive product development, program management, program controls or planning, design and release, manufacturing engineering, or launch

- Strong knowledge of vehicle development milestones, deliverables, and program management disciplines (including GPDS)

- Strong critical thinking, prioritization, and organizational skills

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment

- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive issues to closure without direct authority

Preferred qualifications:

- Previous experience in program controls on a major Ford program

- Experience supporting vehicle programs from concept through launch

- Experience with prototype builds, launch execution, and change management

- Previous Design and Release or other technical engineering experience

Benefits include:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- GPDS
- program management
- vehicle development
- milestone tracking
- issue resolution
- cross-functional teams

### Nice to have
- program controls
- prototype builds
- launch execution
- change management
- Design and Release

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