# System Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,500-$218,100
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

In this position, you will report to the Interior Systems Management Group Lead as a Leadership Level 6 (LL6) position. You will lead the integration and program execution of Interior Systems for assigned forward-model vehicle programs.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the integrated Interior Systems view for assigned forward-model programs, coordinating activities across all interior commodities.

- Own system-level metric tracking and reporting, including cost, weight, sourcing, delivery, timing, and quality status.

- Prepare and lead Interior Systems status reporting for applicable Business Performance Reviews (BPRs), providing clear roll-ups of progress, risks, and decisions needed.

- Drive resolution of technical, packaging, cost, content, and timing issues with Design Release Engineers (DREs) and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Guide system-level trade-offs involving interior content and design to support vehicle targets, design intent, and price-class positioning.

- Lead part-count reduction and other complexity or efficiency initiatives.

- Coordinate Interior Systems delivery plans, including production-tooled build and pre-DCV testing dates, TKO glidepaths, and Sign-Off (S/O) reviews.

- Monitor APQP and PPAP status across applicable Interior Systems parts and raise risks to manufacturing readiness.

- Support timely Matched Pair (MP) decisions and other program decisions needed to protect component delivery plans and milestones.

- Guide DREs as they deliver components to target, maintaining the integrated system glidepath while respecting component-level ownership.

- Promote disciplined use of program processes and tools, and share lessons learned to improve execution across programs.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a closely related technical field.

- Experience in automotive product development, preferably in one or more Interior Systems areas: Seats, Restraints, Cockpit, or Trim.

- Experience leading projects, programs, or cross-functional teams, including driving action and issue resolution without direct reporting authority.

- Understanding of vehicle development processes and program timing, deliverables, and readiness expectations.

- Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information from multiple subsystems into a clear status and recommendations for leaders.

- Ability to manage competing priorities, build alignment across teams, and escalate risks appropriately.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- 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

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day

## Skills

### Required
- Engineering
- Interior Systems
- Project Management
- Communication
- Analytical skills

### Nice to have
- Experience supporting forward-model vehicle programs
- Familiarity with Ford product development processes and systems
- Experience with system-level target management
- Experience with interior content or price-class differentiation

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