# Director of Engineering

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Redford, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

We're growing fast and need a Director of Engineering to be the delivery engine of our robotics organisation. Reporting directly to the Technical Director of Robotics, you'll own how the work actually gets done: the teams, processes, and operational discipline that ship complex hardware-and-software systems on time and at quality.

Responsibilities:

- Own end-to-end delivery of robotics programs , planning, timelines, milestones, and quality

- Build, structure, and scale engineering teams to keep pace with rapid growth; own hiring, performance, and development

- Install and run operational cadence: roadmaps, sprint/milestone tracking, and status reporting

- Coordinate execution across hardware, software, product, QA, and deployment/field teams

- Drive integration, test, reliability, and deployment discipline from lab to production

- Manage capacity, resourcing, and budget against commitments

- Surface risks early, remove blockers, and keep delivery predictable as the team scales

- Partner with the Technical Director to translate technical and architectural direction into executable plans

- Report delivery health and progress to the Technical Director and ATP leadership

Qualifications:

- Bachelors Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience

- 10+ years of professional engineering experience

- 5+ years leading and managing engineering teams

## Skills

### Required
- engineering
- team management
- operational discipline

### Nice to have
- robotics
- hardware-and-software systems
- program management

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