Safety Investigation Program Coordinator

Ford; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Family care support

Job summary

Ford's Sustainability, Environment & Safety group seeks a capable program-management professional to support Critical Concern Review Group investigations. The role involves tracking timelines, coordinating meetings, and preparing formal documentation to meet regulatory standards.

You'll coordinate cross-functional teams across Product Development, Manufacturing, Customer Service, and suppliers, ensuring timely data gathering and accurate reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration, program/project management or related field preferred.
• PMP, CAPM or similar certification is a plus.
• Experience supporting regulatory investigations and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Track investigation timelines, action items, and deliverables.
• Schedule and facilitate investigation meetings.
• Prepare presentations, reports, and documentation per retention guidelines.
• Support regulatory documentation submissions as needed.
• Coordinate demonstrations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain lessons-learned repository and feed insights into improvements.
• Use project tools to monitor investigations and flag risks.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or Program/Project Management

PMP/CAPM certification (preferred)

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Dashboards/BI

Job description

At Ford, we're defining the future of human mobility with a strong focus on corporate responsibility. If you share this commitment, join the diverse team of passionate professionals within our Sustainability, Environment & Safety group. You'll be a key contributor to our efforts to provide the technical and regulatory expertise necessary for advancing such critical initiatives as product safety, emissions, fuel economy, vehicle recycling and much more.

In this position... Project management and product safety investigations support for Critical Concern Review Group (CCRG).

What you'll do...

• Tracking investigation timelines, action items, and deliverables to keep cases on schedule.
• Scheduling, coordinating agendas for, and facilitating investigation-related meetings.
• Assisting in the preparation of presentations, reports, and investigation documentation in accordance with document-retention guidelines.
• Supporting submission of regulatory documentation when necessary.
• Coordinating logistics for special vehicle and component demonstrations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintaining a lessons-learned tracker to help feed insights back into process-improvement and recall-prevention initiatives.
• Applying program-management tools (project plans, trackers, dashboards, RAID logs) to monitor multiple concurrent investigations and flag risks proactively.

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Program/Project Management, or a related field is prefered.
• Provide dedicated program-management support to the CCRG Chair and Deputy Chair, maintaining trackers, dashboards, and status reports across multiple concurrent safety-defect and compliance investigations.
• Plan, organize, and facilitate investigation-related meetings-building agendas, driving discussion, capturing minutes and action items, and following up with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Assist in preparing investigation documentation, presentations, and reports, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with document-retention and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional communication and information-gathering among Product Development, Manufacturing, Customer Service, Suppliers, and field organizations to support fact-finding for active investigations.
• Support logistics and coordination for special vehicle and component demonstrations, special tests, and field surveys.
• Maintain and update the team's lessons-learned repository.
• Partner with regional and global teams to help coordinate resolution of worldwide vehicle concerns, ensuring alignment on timelines and next steps.

Even better, you may have...

• PMP, CAPM, or similar program/project management certification.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional meetings or facilitating task forces in an engineering, automotive, or regulatory environment.
• Familiarity with safety, quality, or compliance investigation processes.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

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.

This position is a salary grade 5 and ranges from $65,100-$109,300.

This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $74,300-$124,500.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base sa