# Battery Manufacturing Engineer **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $68,300-$192,900 **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/71622?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6d9e3219-612 ## Description At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. The Battery Manufacturing Engineering team is opening new highways with our next-generation propulsion systems. We're investing over $50 billion to build some of the most technologically advanced EV manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and E.U. to produce the next generation of Ford electric vehicles. State-of-the-art technologies and processes for battery cells, arrays, and packs are core to our competitive strategy and will provide endless opportunities to innovate and grow -- all while helping the environment. ### Responsibilities #### Process Optimization & Systems Management - Provide technical expertise to optimize highly automated manufacturing equipment and processes through systemic, data-driven solutions, advanced automation, and enhanced process control. - Act as a liaison between organizations to seamlessly integrate battery manufacturing equipment systems into process areas, ensuring alignment across engineering, operations, and support functions. - Champion Interim Corrective Actions (ICAs) and Permanent Corrective Actions (PCAs) throughout installation, commissioning, and qualification activities to resolve issues and prevent recurrence. - Review PM plan performance and effectiveness using machine data, driving improvement and constraint reduction of process equipment in alignment with Ford Motor Company Operating Systems. #### Program & Product Launch Management - Lead installation, commissioning, start-up, and launch activities at the manufacturing plant. - Support feasibility studies on equipment design changes and lead modifications, vet designs against site and process capabilities, and usher implementation of corrective actions through project milestones. - Own commissioning execution, including dry runs, safety validation, and final acceptance testing. - Drive equipment qualification processes, ensuring capability, throughput, yield, and quality targets are achieved before production release. - Lead production ramp-up planning and execution, establishing structured ramp methodologies to achieve rate, yield, and OEE targets. - Lead identification, resolution, and closure of all feasibility, quality, packaging, tooling, safety, ergonomics, controls, purchasing, cost, and other issues throughout the life of the program. #### Continuous Improvement & Equipment Life Cycle - Oversee equipment re-tooling, upgrades, and optimization initiatives to support product changes, capacity increases, or performance improvements. - Establish documentation standards, change management processes, and capture "Lessons Learned" to implement continuous improvement actions on future and scalable manufacturing programs. #### Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership - Act as a bridge between departments to ensure optimal equipment performance, coordinating cross-functional readiness across engineering, operations, maintenance, quality, facilities, and EHS to ensure seamless start-of-production. - Manage equipment vendors and installation contractors through installation, commissioning, and post-launch stabilization. - Track and manage key ramp KPIs,including throughput, yield, scrap, uptime, cycle time, and MTBF/MTTR,using electronic tools and complex algorithms to improve department KPI performance. - Identify technical risks early and implement mitigation plans to protect launch timing and performance targets. - Provide regular program updates on schedule, budget, risks, and ramp performance to senior leadership. #### Standards & Safety - Ensure adherence to the Ford Production System (FPS) and Safety Operating System practices to achieve zero injuries and assist in the development and achievement of department KPIs. ### Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree or above in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related technical field. - 3-10+ years of relevant professional experience in a manufacturing environment (automotive or battery cell manufacturing preferred). - Ability to work varied shifts and hours, including weekends, and travel extensively (90–100%), including internationally, to support plant launches and operations. Must be flexible and willing to work at different sites for periods ranging from several weeks to several months. ### 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 - Mechanical Engineering - Mechatronics - Manufacturing Engineering - Data Analysis - Automation - Process Control ### Nice to have - Industry 4.0 - Data Collection - AI/ML - IIOT - Digital Twins - Lean Manufacturing - Six Sigma - FMEAs - AutoCAD - Planner --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/71622?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)