# Maintenance Engineer, Ford Energy

**Company**: Ford Energy
**Location**: Glendale, KY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,100-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS).

As a Maintenance Engineer, you will play a vital role in leading maintenance operations that keep our battery cell and BESS module/container manufacturing lines running with precision and uptime.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead Maintenance Operating System (MOS) initiatives within the production and facilities department.

- Optimize current production processes and maintenance tasks across battery cell and BESS assembly equipment.

- Lead equipment rebuilds and coordinate project and shutdown planning with engineers and production teams.

- Develop preventative and predictive maintenance practices to ensure 100% equipment uptime.

- Own the MOS Board, maintain spare parts inventory, and utilize Maximo to track and report on key maintenance metrics.

- Champion continuous improvement, ensuring capability is developed at the lowest level of the organization.

- Embrace the Gemba philosophy: Regularly engage on the floor to monitor equipment health, listen to technicians, and solve problems where the work happens.

- Remove Barriers: Proactively troubleshoot equipment issues to identify root cause and eliminate constraints impacting production.

- Collaborate across functions: Work seamlessly with production and engineering teams to support new model and equipment launches.

- Excellent communicator who can train and coach both hourly and salary team members.

- Lead and coach maintenance technicians on the floor, building quality and equipment ownership.

- Take ownership of projects and see them through to completion with limited supervision.

- Provide input on new equipment design and purchase as the site builds out battery cell and BESS assembly capacity.

- Support new model and equipment launches as required.

- Conduct spare part inventory auditing to ensure parts availability aligns with maintenance demand.

- Report out on key metrics around maintenance performance and equipment reliability.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in engineering required

- Maintenance experience with the ability to optimize equipment programs and troubleshoot to root cause

- Flexibility to support business needs by working across various shifts

- Domestic and international travel may be required

**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
- engineering
- maintenance
- troubleshooting
- predictive maintenance
- leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- Lean implementation
- AutoCAD
- Maximo
- Excel
- data-driven mindset
- high-volume manufacturing/assembly experience
- battery or energy storage manufacturing

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