# Global Sr. Manager, Advanced Seats Engineering, Structures, & Compliance

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

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## Description

Ford is seeking a Sr. Global Manager – Advanced Seats Engineering, Structures, and Compliance to lead a global engineering organization responsible for early architecture and technology innovation, seat structure design and development, and seat system regulatory compliance.

This leader will direct cross-functional, cross-regional teams to deliver seating systems that meet the highest standards of safety, quality, performance, and manufacturability, while driving advanced technology and innovation strategies.

## Responsibilities

### Global Team Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and develop a global team of engineers and managers across multiple disciplines, sites, and time zones.

- Build organizational capability by attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent.

- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance culture across globally distributed teams.

### Advanced Seating Architecture & Technology Development

- Direct early-phase seating architecture strategy, concept development, and advanced technology roadmaps aligned with future vehicle programs.

- Partner with product planning, design, and innovation teams to identify and mature emerging seating technologies.

- Guide feasibility studies, benchmarking, and technology readiness assessments to inform long-term seating strategy.

### Seat Structure Development & Industrialization

- Oversee structural design, engineering analysis, validation, and industrialization of seat systems from concept through ongoing product development.

- Drive continuous improvement in structural performance, weight optimization, cost, and quality.

### Seat System Compliance & Homologation

- Guide seating development priorities to meet emerging homologation and 3rd party targets.

- Serve as the technical escalation point for compliance risks and work cross-functionally to resolve regulatory issues.

- Ensure lessons-learned and best practices are fed into forward model development programs.

### Cross-Functional & Strategic Leadership

- Collaborate with Program Management, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supplier Technical Assistance teams to ensure integrated program delivery.

- Represent Seating Engineering in senior leadership reviews, program milestones, and executive-level technical discussions.

- Drive alignment of global engineering standards, processes, and best practices across regions.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.

- Master's degree in Engineering or related field (preferred).

- 10+ years of progressive experience managing technical teams of increasing size and complexity.

- Strong automotive industry experience, with demonstrated expertise in seat systems, structures, or related vehicle component engineering.

- Proven experience leading global, cross-regional, and cross-cultural engineering teams.

- Solid understanding of automotive regulatory and homologation requirements.

- Strong knowledge of structural engineering principles, CAE/CAD tools, and industrialization/manufacturing processes.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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
- automotive engineering
- seat systems
- structures
- regulatory compliance
- global team leadership
- advanced seating architecture
- technology development
- structural design
- industrialization
- homologation

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Engineering
- advanced materials
- lightweighting
- next-generation seating technologies
- Six Sigma
- PMP

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