# Technical Supervisor – Power Controls

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,500-$218,100
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Be the first to apply for this exciting opportunity to join Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team as a Technical Supervisor – Power Controls. In this role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership and people supervision across PowerNet 1, PowerNet 1+, and future PowerNet architectures, supporting ICE, FHEV, PHEV, and EV vehicle programs.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead the development, review, and maintenance of Power Controls system requirements for PowerNet 1, PowerNet 1+, and future PowerNet architectures, including 12V and 48V power systems.

- Ensure requirements address vehicle-level power management across 12V and 48V domains, including load management, voltage regulation, multiple power sources, power transitions, and power availability under all operating conditions.

- Guide engineers in translating system and vehicle requirements into clear control logic, calibration intent, and validation criteria.

- Drive alignment between architecture, controls, software, and hardware teams to ensure robust, scalable, and feasible power system designs.

**PowerNet Controls Investigations & Optimization**

- Lead technical investigations related to PowerNet control behavior, including 12V and 48V system interactions, performance gaps, unexpected system responses, and integration issues.

- Identify and drive power optimization strategies to improve system efficiency, robustness, and vehicle performance, such as:

+ Load shedding and prioritization strategies 	+ Voltage and energy optimization across 12V/48V systems 	+ Improved power transition and recovery behavior

- Collaborate with Technical Experts, System Architects, and Program Teams to evaluate trade-offs and implement optimized control solutions across vehicle programs.

**Validation Support & Issue Resolution**

- Support and guide system-level validation activities, including in-vehicle testing and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) validation for 12V and 48V power systems.

- Lead issue investigations during bench, system, and vehicle validation, including root cause analysis, corrective action definition, and requirement updates.

- Ensure validation learnings are systematically fed back into system requirements, control strategies, and calibration updates.

**Quality & Field Issue Leadership**

- Lead quality investigations related to PowerNet control systems, including warranty, field issues, and campaign prevention activities involving 12V and 48V power domains.

- Drive structured root cause analysis and corrective actions for complex, system-level power issues.

- Ensure PowerNet control strategies maintain voltage quality and power availability to safety-critical systems.

- Support the development and maintenance of DFMEA, FMA, and robustness actions in collaboration with systems, quality, and functional safety teams.

**People Leadership, Mentorship & Development**

- Directly supervise and mentor Power Controls engineers, providing technical guidance, performance feedback, and career development support.

- Build team capability in systems thinking, controls development, validation, and structured problem solving.

- Foster a culture of technical rigor, accountability, and continuous improvement.

- Support onboarding, training, and knowledge transfer within the Power Controls team.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.

- 8+ years of experience in automotive power management, electrical systems, or controls development.

**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
- PowerNet
- 12V and 48V power systems
- Load management
- Voltage regulation
- Multiple power sources
- Power transitions
- Power availability
- System requirements development
- Power optimization strategies
- Load shedding and prioritization strategies
- Voltage and energy optimization
- Improved power transition and recovery behavior
- Root cause analysis
- Corrective action definition
- Requirement updates
- DFMEA
- FMA
- Robustness actions
- Systems thinking
- Controls development
- Validation
- Structured problem solving
- Technical guidance
- Performance feedback
- Career development support