Maintenance Engineer, Ford Energy

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.