# Launch Program Coordinator

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Ypsilanti, MI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $72,480 - $162,120
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Launch Program Coordinator will support and coordinate the overall process for product launches and product line decommissioning, ensuring delivery of products, key milestones, and product content.

Responsibilities:

- Monitor projects against schedules, costs, and deadlines.

- Coordinate product transfers from external sites and capture customer requirements.

- Determine manufacturing requirements and strategies with functional managers.

- Develop packaging requirements and strategies.

- Coordinate with suppliers and vendors for purchasing decisions.

- Validate new equipment and processes.

- Manage end-of-life equipment disposition, including evaluation, documentation, and execution.

- Track and maintain annual layout and supplier PPAP status.

- Participate in continuous improvement and Lean/FPS-aligned initiatives.

- Report on key risks and provide mitigation recommendations.

- Conduct milestone meetings and document outcomes.

- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety, Environmental, and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications:

- High School Diploma.

- 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).

- Automotive experience in a vehicle assembly plant.

- Prior experience handling a unionized workforce.

- Safety and Quality experience preferred.

- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.

- Ability to work independently with limited supervision.

- Experience assigning work to unionized hourly workforce and holding employees accountable.

- Strong organizational, administrative, problem-solving, and conflict management skills.

- Leadership behaviors, interpersonal, team-building, and communication skills.

Benefits:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare.

- Family building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments.

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members.

- Tuition assistance.

- Active employee resource groups.

- Paid time off for individual and team community service.

- Generous schedule of paid holidays.

- Paid time off and option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office
- Lean Manufacturing
- Project Management
- Communication
- Problem-solving

### Nice to have
- Safety
- Quality
- Industrial Engineering

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