# Manager, Battery Management Systems, Ford Energy

**Company**: Ford Energy
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,700-$268,300
**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).

The Manager, BMS leads all aspects of BMS technology development and program delivery for Ford Energy's BESS products , from architecture and roadmap through validation, industrialization, launch, and field support , ensuring the BMS is delivered on time, with quality, and at or below cost.

## Responsibilities

The Manager, BMS will:

- Lead BMS technology development and program delivery, owning end-to-end delivery of BMS hardware, software, and system architecture

- Develop and maintain BMS technology roadmaps and cost models; lead design optimization to reduce cost while improving performance and life

- Lead development of advanced diagnostic and prognostic capability as a core differentiator for customer-facing reliability, uptime, and total cost of ownership

- Drive adherence to Ford Energy's cybersecurity strategy, aligning BMS cybersecurity practices with applicable grid and industrial standards

- Serve as primary technical/program interface for BMS across Ford Energy Engineering, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, planning, and supply chain

- Lead competitor benchmarking/teardowns for BMS hardware, software, and control strategies

- Lead BMS functional safety process, and lead advanced BMS technology development with suppliers

- Lead key engineering documentation, support manufacturability assessments, and review quality history

- Lead the BMS department through subordinate engineering leads/supervisors, ensuring clear accountability and coordinated execution across teams

- Own the department's operational business plan, including headcount planning and resource/budget allocation

- Set department/employee objectives aligned to Ford Energy's goals and roadmap; hold regular 1:1s and recognize performance

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

- 10+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree (or 8+ years with a Master's degree) in Electrical, Computer, or Systems Engineering

- Demonstrated people leadership / direct management experience (leading engineering teams/leads)

- Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional programs with internal teams and external suppliers

- Experience delivering BMS hardware and/or software through the full product development process

- Strong first-principles knowledge of electrical engineering, control theory, signal processing, and electrochemistry

## 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
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Battery Management Systems
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Automotive BMS/BECM programs
- LFP cell architectures
- prismatic/pouch module/pack designs
- APQP
- PPAP
- DV/PV
- launch readiness
- ISO 26262 functional safety
- cybersecurity standards

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