# Incoming Supplier Quality Engineering Specialist

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Marshall
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Imagine being on the ground floor of something truly extraordinary. At BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, we’re not just assembling battery systems; we’re leading a transformation. As a key member of our start-up team, you’ll have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to launch a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility from the ground up. Imagine: you, at the forefront of the electrification movement, helping to bring the next generation of vehicles to driveways, job sites and highways everywhere.

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that all incoming components meet stringent Ford Engineering Specifications (ES) and print requirements. You will lead the investigation into supplier-related production disruptions, manage immediate containment and chargebacks, and drive suppliers toward robust 8D closure to protect the plant’s First Time Through (FTT) and customer quality.

**Responsibilities**

- Supplier Issue Management & Containment: Lead investigations into supplier parts impacting production areas; execute immediate containment of suspect material.

- Corrective Actions: Establish Permanent Corrective Actions (PCAs) and strictly track implementation timing.

- 8D Leadership: Lead supplier teams through the 8D process, ensuring root cause identification and closure to prevent recurrence.

- Sorting Oversight: Manage and provide oversight for all on-site or third-party supplier sorting activities.

- Financial Accountability: Initiate and manage supplier chargebacks (NORs) when applicable for non-conforming material and labor.

**Tracking, Reporting & Communication**

- Tracklite Management: Distribute weekly Battery Pack Issue tracking notifications to each supplier via Tracklite.

- Meeting Cadence: Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams on prolonged supplier issues through established meeting cadences.

- Real-Time Feedback: Provide immediate quality issue feedback to base departments and plant leadership.

- TDM Standards: Attend and contribute to all Daily, Weekly, and Bi-Weekly team meetings per Time and Data Management (TDM) Standards.

**Launch, Audit & Compliance**

- Launch Support: Lead and support launch activities for new battery programs, ensuring supplier readiness and PPAP compliance.

- Auditing: Support all internal and external audits, including ISO 9001/IATF 16949 and "Fresh Eyes" reviews.

- PD Escalation: Identify and escalate design or system-level issues to Product Development (PD) when parts meet print/ES but fail to function in the assembly.

- Corporate Standards: Adhere to all Corporate Standards, ensuring timing, budget, and FTT capability targets are met.

**Continuous Improvement & Governance**

- Six Sigma: Deliver a minimum of two (2) Six Sigma projects per year focused on cost reduction or quality improvement.

- Review Teams: Drive issue resolution as a key member of the weekly Product Review Team (PRT) and the monthly Plant Quality Review (PQR).

- Proactive Quality: Assist in supplier quality investigations and drive process/standard adherence across the supply chain.

## Skills

### Required
- Supplier Quality
- Manufacturing Quality
- Battery Technologies
- Quality Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Communication
- Leadership
- Team Management
- Time and Data Management
- ISO 9001/IATF 16949
- Six Sigma

### Nice to have
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Quality Assurance
- Supply Chain Management
- Project Management

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