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In this position...

Ford Product Development are seeking a highly skilled and experienced expert in Quality to lead and improve quality processes within our EEHW (Electronics, Electrical, Hardware) organization. This role requires a strong technical background, proven leadership abilities, and a deep understanding of automotive quality systems. You will be a key driver in ensuring the highest quality standards for all EEHW commodities and teams.

What you'll do...

• Lead Quality Process Improvement: Define, implement, and champion best practices across all EEHW teams. This includes conducting regular process reviews and ensuring alignment with Ford's Quality Office.

• Work closely with Functional team in Body Electronics to improve their quality metrics: Hands-on work to help teams develop and/or refine processes to tackle their own unique challenges, including help at warranty returns center and with developing test rigs.

• Ford Quality Office Liaison: Collaborate with Ford's Quality team to integrate new processes and reporting methods (JIRA, 8D reports, etc.) tailored to EEHW's specific needs. Develop innovative approaches to root cause analysis for non-conforming parts and warranty claims (leveraging cloud data, hotlines, and pre-approval processes).

• Improve quality deployment efficiency: Understand all Body electronics commodities and look for commonality and cross-team leverage to maximize efficiency of (minimize overhead required for) quality deployment.

• Develop and Maintain Quality Dashboards: Design and maintain a PowerBI dashboard providing comprehensive quality reporting, integrating data from various sources (warranty data, GCP, R1000, CPU, spend, supplier manufacturing data) and performing root cause trend analysis.

• Training and Mentorship: Develop and deliver training programs for EEHW quality engineers covering quality processes, warranty analysis (WPAC, WAC, 700 Tag, GTTI), and various quality tools (PowerBI, Google Cloud Platform, JIRA, GSAR, RD Mapping, Quality AI, QARS, QED, MWATS, PTS). This includes training on root cause analysis techniques for component and system issues.

• Hands-on help for systems and component quality engineers as required; jump into triage and root cause analysis as needed for all EEHW systems.

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.

10+ years of overall experience.

6 years of specialty within automotive electronics/systems design and validation.

Even better, you may have...

Master's degree in Engineering, MBA or related degree.

Extensive experience with Ford service procedures, Ford warranty processes, and relevant tools and skills (PowerBI, Google Cloud Platform, JIRA, GSAR, RD Mapping, Quality AI, QARS, QED, MWATS, PTS, Python).

Proven leadership in electronic module/systems design, with a focus on design verification and warranty improvement.

Deep understanding of electronic module quality disciplines and processes.

Experience in cross-functional teamwork, complex data analysis, and executive-level reporting.

You 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!

As 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 of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

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This position is a range of salary grades LL6 .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates 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.

We 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. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

Onsite work of up to three days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location.

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Requisition ID : 43125