# Engineering Specialist - Quality/Process

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Kansas City, MO
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As part of our Manufacturing team, you'll help build world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles.

## Responsibilities

In this position, you'll own the Quality and capability of the manufacturing processes within the Assembly department.

### Key Responsibilities:

- Apply engineering principles and analytical techniques to drive continuous improvement to manufacturing processes.

- Lead development of interim and permanent corrective actions to resolve quality issues using 8D methodology and structured problem-solving tools.

- Play an integral part in the Launch process by establishing and monitoring quality target levels at the workstation level for each build phase to validate workstations readiness.

- Conduct process audits to ensure process adheres to Vehicle Operations guidelines and specific process standards.

- Act as team leader in resolving assembly-related concerns, lead variability reduction and lean manufacturing initiatives, and best practices.

- Support ISO 14001 compliance and support internal ISO auditing and compliance as required.

- Lead development of solutions for throughput constraints.

- Manage and direct statistical process control activities.

- Review internal/external suppliers for critical characteristic process compatibility.

- Support efficiency planning to ensure workstations are properly set up with quality risks identified and addressed.

### Requirements:

- Education: High School Diploma.

- Manufacturing/Technology engineering work experience.

- Previous automotive and quality analysis experience.

- Previous production supervision.

### Required Skills/Capabilities:

- 8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving.

- Lean Tools – 5S, Kanban, Poka-yoke, and Value Stream Mapping.

- TQM and Kaizen Methods.

- Visual Factory Management.

- Microsoft Office proficiency (Word/Excel/Outlook).

### Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology preferred.

- FMEA, PPAP, and DOE experience preferred.

- Six Sigma: DMAIC and DMADV (DFSS) Project Methodology experience preferred.

- Ergonomic analysis knowledge and experience preferred.

- Six Sigma Green Belt certified preferred.

## Benefits

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care, 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
- 8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving
- Lean Tools – 5S, Kanban, Poka-yoke, and Value Stream Mapping
- TQM and Kaizen Methods
- Visual Factory Management
- Microsoft Office proficiency (Word/Excel/Outlook)

### Nice to have
- FMEA
- PPAP
- DOE experience
- Six Sigma: DMAIC and DMADV (DFSS) Project Methodology
- Ergonomic analysis knowledge and experience
- Six Sigma Green Belt certified

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