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This leader partners with Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, Skilled Trades, and other engineering teams to remove barriers, resolve complex technical issues, and build lasting engineering capability.\nAt Ford, we design, build, and deliver high-quality vehicles that meet the diverse needs of our customers. Our employees-and the different perspectives, experiences, and expertise they bring-are fundamental to our success. Join a team committed to manufacturing excellence, innovation, environmental responsibility, and the communities in which we live and work.\n What You'll Do\nLead, coach, and develop a team of engineers and technicians responsible for process, equipment, and systems performance within an assigned manufacturing area.\nDrive rigorous Process Adherence to standardized work, engineering specifications, and manufacturing requirements, identifying and closing gaps between designed and actual process performance.\nOwn and drive Quality Operating System (QOS) adherence, ensuring quality metrics, escalation processes, corrective actions, and countermeasures are consistently applied.\nManage MTC (Manufacturing/Method-Time Change) and CCR (Change Control Request/Review) processes to ensure disciplined, documented, and validated implementation of product and process changes.\nLead DCP (Deviation Control Plan) management, ensuring deviations are properly documented, risk-assessed, controlled, and resolved through robust engineering countermeasures.\nApply structured project management methodology to plan, resource, execute, and deliver engineering projects, including product launches, process improvements, equipment installations, and capital projects, on time and within budget.\nLead process and equipment validation, ensuring new and modified manufacturing processes meet established safety, quality, capability, and production requirements prior to release.\nApply Ford Production System (FPS) principles to strengthen standardized processes, improve flow, eliminate waste, and drive continuous improvement across engineering and production systems.\nUse data-driven and structured problem-solving methodologies, including Lean Six Sigma tools, to identify root causes and implement sustainable corrective actions.\nPartner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, Skilled Trades, and other technical organizations to align priorities, resources, and corrective actions.\nCoach and develop team members through Leaders as Teachers practices, strengthening technical expertise, problem-solving capability, and leadership effectiveness.\nPartner with Union Leadership, where applicable, to support engineering-driven process, organizational, and operational improvements.\nSupport succession planning, talent development, and competency growth through Professional Development Committee activities.\nProvide technical leadership during production disruptions, launches, quality concerns, and other high-priority manufacturing situations.\n You'll have...\n Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, or a related engineering discipline).\nBroad technical and engineering experience in a manufacturing or production environment.\nWorking knowledge of engineering change management processes, including MTC, CCR, DCP, or comparable systems, and process validation methodologies.\nWorking knowledge of Quality Operating System (QOS) principles, process control, and process adherence practices.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively with hourly employees, Skilled Trades, salaried personnel, technical specialists, and plant and engineering leadership.\nStrong presentation and communication skills, including experience presenting technical results, recommendations, and issues to senior leadership.\nAbility to teach and coach Ford Production System (FPS/Lean Manufacturing) principles and engineering standard work.\nDemonstrated ability to use data to drive fact-based engineering decisions, structured problem solving, and corrective actions.\nStrong leadership and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical and cross-functional issues.\nAbility to perform effectively under pressure, including production disruptions, crisis response, launch-readiness, and other time-critical situations.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.\nFlexibility to work any shift based on business and operational requirements.\nDemonstrated One Ford leadership behaviors, with strong interpersonal, team-building, collaboration, and communication skills.\nEven better, you may have...\nPrior supervisory or team leadership experience in an engineering or manufacturing environment.\nHands-on project management experience, including project planning, resource allocation, budget management, risk management, and milestone delivery.\nExperience leading manufacturing process and equipment validations.\nExperience managing engineering change control processes, including MTC, CCR, and DCP, or comparable systems.\nStrong computer and engineering systems proficiency, including experience with tools such as CAD, PLM, quality systems, and manufacturing/data-analysis systems.\nAdvanced analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to make timely, data-driven decisions.\nLean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.\nWhat You'll Bring\nYou are a technically strong engineering leader who can translate engineering standards into reliable manufacturing performance. You are comfortable working on the plant floor, leading teams, analyzing data, challenging gaps in process discipline, and driving issues through to sustainable resolution.\nYou combine strong technical judgment with effective people leadership and can communicate across all levels of the organization-from engineers, technicians, Skilled Trades, and production employees to plant and senior engineering leadership.\nYou understand that strong manufacturing performance depends on disciplined engineering fundamentals: process adherence, robust change control, effective validation, structured problem solving, and continuous improvement.\nYou may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!\nAs an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:\nImmediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage\n\nFlexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more\n\nFamily building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more\n\nVehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases\n\nTuition assistance\n\nEstablished and active employee resource groups\n\nPaid time off for individual and team community service\n\nA generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day\n\nPaid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.\n\nThis position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $112,680- $212,760.\nFor more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6\nVisa sponsorship is not available for this position.\nCandidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. 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