Battery Pack Program Leader

Ford Motor; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Flexible family care days

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor delivers Battery Pack program leadership across North American sites, aligning with GPDS milestones and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery. This role leads engineers through milestones, interfaces with PD, IT, PURCH, and other functions, and drives critical-path decisions to maintain launch timing.

Extensive travel is required. The position emphasizes program management, budgeting, supplier coordination, and machinery readiness, with leadership responsibilities across multiple

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years in manufacturing experience (e.g., machine design knowledge).
• Experience managing suppliers and placing complex/detailed orders.
• Strong project leadership and communication skills with stakeholders across plants and suppliers.
• Ability to travel up to 75% during Install, Commissioning, and Launch phases.

Responsibilities

• Deliver battery programs safely on time, at cost, with quality from to launch/ROC.
• Lead a team of program/process/test engineers through program milestones.
• Interface with cross-functional teams (PD, MSAP, Fordland, MP&L, IT, PURCH).
• Own the master program schedule and coordinate engineering teams and suppliers.
• Track progress and drive actions to maintain launch timing and plan.
• Manage equipment delivery, runoff, shipment, and build event timing.

Skills

Project leadership

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Travel up to 75%

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

JIRA

Smartsheet

Global Integrator

MIDAS

iERP

PFR

Job description

Battery Pack Program Engineer

To oversee the development of Battery Pack programs across Ford North American Sites ensuring Alignment with the Bill of process and leading the delivery of Ford’s Global Product Development System ("GPDS") milestones and program targets, including timing, process, and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Deliver battery programs safely on time, at cost, with quality from to launch / ROC
• Lead a team of program/process/test engineers through program milestones ensuring deliverable completion
• Manage BME support groups (Process, Test, Digital Assembly, IE, Ergo)
• Interface with critical x-functional teams (PD, MSAP, Fordland, MP&L, STA, GME, NML, MFG QUAL, IT, PURCH, B&F)
• Own the master program schedule, coordinating engineering teams & suppliers to complete milestones on time
• Track program progress against schedule and drive actions to maintain launch timing and transition plan
• Manage equipment delivery, runoff, shipment, installation, commissioning, and build event timing
• Lead x-functional discussions to facilitate issue resolution and remove roadblocks impacting critical-path activities.
• Drive the completion of all phases of MIDAS (Machine Identification Acceptance System) approvals from the relevant engineers and plant operations.
• Own master program financial commitment curves and funding plans with engineering teams.
• Manage budgets, purchase orders, cost reviews, and financial reporting for program reviews.
• Manage prototype and spare‑part procurement, including lead times, ordering, tracking, and delivery.
• Manage change requests and study activities, including cost, timing, and issue impact assessments.
• Lead regular occurring program meetings to review status, issues, action items, risks and key developments.
• Maintain internal and external program SharePoint sites, documentation, and user access.
• Visit suppliers to review timing, equipment design, build progress, and runoff readiness.
• Travel to manufacturing sites to support equipment install, commissioning, pre‑production and production builds.
• Lead site‑based engineers throughout the delivery of equipment to production readiness.
• Utilize the necessary program tools and software (JIRA, Smartsheet, Global Integrator, MIDAS, iERP, PFR, etc.)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years in of Manufacturing experience (ex. Machine design knowledge)
• Experience managing suppliers, placing complex/detailed orders
• Strong Project Leadership skills
• Excellent communication and project management skills when interacting with plant, union, suppliers, PD, etc
• Self-starting, self‑motivated individual with a learning and growth mindset.
• Results-oriented mind set
• Strong organizational, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to travel up to 75% during Install, Commissioning, and Launch phases.

Preferred

• Master's Degree
• Management experience
• Manufacturing Engineering Experience

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.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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