# Manufacturing Engineer - Battery Pack Program

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$166,200
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Battery Manufacturing Engineering team at Ford Motor Company is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to lead cross-functional teams and deliver safe, quality products on time and within budget for the next-generation propulsion systems.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in manufacturing engineering, excellent organisational and communication skills, and the ability to lead teams through program milestones.

Responsibilities:

- Lead cross-functional teams from program kickoff through launch to deliver safe, quality products on time and within budget.

- Own the master program schedule, coordinating engineering teams and suppliers to achieve key milestones.

- Manage equipment delivery, runoff, shipment, installation, commissioning, and build event timing.

- Track program progress against schedule and drive actions to maintain launch timing.

- Document, track, escalate, and resolve engineering and supplier issues; provide regular status updates.

- Lead cross-functional discussions to facilitate issue resolution and remove roadblocks impacting critical-path activities.

- Develop program financial commitment curves and funding plans with engineering teams.

- Manage budgets, purchase orders, cost reviews, and financial reporting for program reviews.

- Lead teams through program milestones, ensuring required deliverables, documentation, and containment plans are completed.

- Coordinate prototype and spare-part procurement, including lead times, ordering, tracking, and delivery.

- Lead regular occurring program meetings to review status, issues, action items, risks and key developments.

- Manage change requests and study activities, including cost, timing, and issue impact assessments.

- Represent Battery Manufacturing Engineering at meetings, program reviews, trials, supplier runoffs, and site activities.

- Lead program reviews, including agenda development, content validation, and presentation delivery.

- Maintain internal and external program SharePoint sites, documentation, and user access.

- Visit suppliers to review timing, equipment design, build progress, and runoff readiness.

- Travel to manufacturing sites to support equipment installation, commissioning, pre-production, and production builds.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- 3+ years of Manufacturing Engineering experience.

- Self-starting, self-motivated individual with a learning and growth mindset.

- Strong organisational, communication, and influencing skills.

- Strong leadership skills and ability to handle technical aspects of the position.

- Basic knowledge and experience in manufacturing processes.

- Ability to travel up to 75% during Install, Commissioning, and Launch phase.

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidised 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
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Leadership
- Communication
- Organizational
- Technical

### Nice to have
- Machine Design
- Project Management
- Domestic and International Travel

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