# Program Manager, Ford Energy **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $115,500-$268,300 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/64776?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8df8a3d9-adb ## Description In this high-impact functional leadership role, you will define, execute, and safeguard the post-contract product delivery pipeline within the Ford Energy Sales Organisation. As a principal individual contributor, you will directly oversee the execution of Ford Energy's most strategic and complex deployments while establishing the standardized PMO processes, delivery playbooks, and stage-gate controls for the organisation. **Responsibilities** - Functional Leadership & Delivery Frameworks: - Standardized Execution: Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of standardized post-contract delivery processes, playbooks, and stage-gate reviews tailored for BESS projects. - Portfolio Health: Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for project health, delivery efficiency, and financial performance across the Ford Energy portfolio. - Tools & Systems Architecture: Champion the adoption of advanced program management tools and tracking systems to ensure consistent execution. - High-Stakes Project Execution: - Direct Delivery: Take personal accountability for the execution, timeline, and commissioning of Ford Energy's largest, most complex, or high-risk utility-scale BESS installations - Risk Mitigation: Conduct rigorous stakeholder and risk analyses to identify deployment hurdles and coordinate cross-functional interventions to unblock delivery pipelines. - Technical & Operational Alignment: Act as the primary interface between Sales, Engineering, Finance, and external EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) contractors to ensure aligned execution. - Stakeholder & Customer Management: - Primary Escalation Contact: Serve as the prime operational contact and consultant for customers, utilities, and senior internal leadership during project deployment. - Contractual Coordination: Navigate and resolve complex contractual, scheduling, and technical coordination issues with external partners and utility representatives. - Mentorship: Provide functional guidance, mentorship, and support to other project specialists and engineers across the organisation. **Qualifications** - Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Construction Management, a related technical field, or equivalent. - Experience: 10+ years of program management, project delivery, or PMO experience, with a proven track record of executing large-scale utility, infrastructure, or energy projects. - Execution Expertise: 3+ years of experience directly managing, building, and mentoring high-performing project management teams. - Execution Expertise: Strong background in post-contract execution, EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) workflows, contract management, and utility-scale deployments. - Leadership Capability: Proven ability to lead, influence, and drive consensus across matrixed, cross-functional engineering and business teams without direct authority. **Preferred** - Master's degree or MBA. - PMP (Project Management Professional) or PMP (Program Management Professional) certification. - Deep domain knowledge of BESS, grid-scale power systems, or renewable energy project lifecycles. **Leadership Attributes** - Operational Leader: Able to establish and execute standardized project delivery frameworks and PMO guidelines, ensuring operational readiness for complex deployments - Collaborative Facilitator: Skilled at bridging gaps and building operational consensus between Sales, Engineering, Finance, and external partners to drive aligned execution - Execution Champion: Maintains a hands-on, relentless focus on delivery timelines, quality, and project financials, ensuring our most complex commitments to customers are met successfully - Functional Mentor: Passionate about mentoring and elevating project delivery capabilities across the organisation, with the readiness to foster a collaborative team culture as the function grows. **Location & Travel** - Location: Dearborn, MI. Palo Alto, CA, or Glendale, KY. This position operates on a hybrid model, requiring regular onsite presence to collaborate with engineering, sales, and manufacturing leadership. - Travel Expectations: Moderate domestic travel to project sites, customer offices, and supplier locations as needed to oversee critical execution milestones. **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 - Program Management - Project Delivery - PMO - BESS - Grid-Scale Power Systems - Renewable Energy - Contract Management - Utility-Scale Deployments - Engineering - Procurement - Construction ### Nice to have - Master's Degree - MBA - PMP Certification - Deep Domain Knowledge of BESS - Renewable Energy Project Lifecycles --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/64776?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)