# Ford Pro Upfitter Specialist

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $90,000 - $160,000
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Ford Pro Upfitter Specialist (FPU Specialist) leads Ford Pro's relationship with and evaluation of upfitters in the Ford Pro Upfitter Qualification Program.

## Responsibilities

- Evaluate eligible upfitters on Ford Pro Upfitter Program requirements focused on operations and engineering quality processes and qualify/deny upfitters into the program.

- Travel to customer locations for face-to-face meetings to evaluate facilities on Ford Pro Upfitter program requirements and strengthen relationships with Ford Pro and the Ford Pro Upfit Team.

- Achieve objectives and key results with qualified FPU upfitters, including milestone completion and adherence to FPU program requirements.

- Refine and execute the FPU go-to-market strategy to enroll and certify new upfitters.

- Provide counsel to fleet customers on new product offerings, production and distribution timing.

- Represent Ford Pro at fleet conventions, industry associations, and other local and national fleet events.

- Support national coverage across assigned customers and partners.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree

- 5+ years of automotive or manufacturing experience

- Strong knowledge of operations and engineering quality processes.

- Strong communication skills.

- Willingness to travel up to 70% or as needed to support customer and partner engagement.

## 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
- operations
- engineering quality processes
- communication

### Nice to have
- strategic customer relationships
- cross-functional partnerships
- fleet needs analysis
- product timing
- total cost of ownership considerations
- upfitter operations
- commercial vehicle solutions
- Ford Pro systems

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