Specialist, Charging - Projects

Ford; Dearborn, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible family care days

Parental leave

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford is seeking a results-driven professional for the Ford Charging unit to develop value propositions and drive performance improvements for EV charging operations. The role requires juggling multiple tasks and meeting tight deadlines in a hybrid setting with four in-office days weekly in SE Michigan.

You will partner with management to enhance operational efficiencies, conduct process mining, and prepare reports while building strong internal relationships across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• 5+ years’ experience in operations, product management, analytics, system dynamics, quality assurance or a relevant business role.
• Data-driven approach with strong modeling, reporting and metrics experience.
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with management to design and measure continuous process improvement work that integrates strategic and financial plans.
• Oversee operations team efficiencies, including planning, backlog management, reporting and compliance.
• Ensure alignment of revenue optimization with sales, inventory, and customer metrics.
• Conduct process mining and assess value streams for new workflows and programs.
• Prepare quality and performance assessment documentation and reports.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Jira

SharePoint

Salesforce

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Ford Charging is a new global business within Ford Customer Service Division committed to home and commercial customer productivity. Ford Charging delivers a work-ready suite of vehicles, products, and services for virtually every vocation, backed by technology, and engineered for uptime. A true one-stop shop, offering a full portfolio of electrified and internal combustion vehicles designed to integrate seamlessly with the Ford Charging ecosystem, helping customers' businesses thrive today and into the new era of electrification.

In this position...

Your primary role is to develop and implement value proposition data and performance improvement strategies to support the feasibility and effectiveness of Ford Charging operations needed to manage the resources and business outcomes for electric vehicle chargers and related hardware. We are looking for someone excited to join the Ford Charging team and create solutions to support our home and commercial Electric Vehicle customers. The ideal candidate can prioritize multiple tasks and meet tight deadlines.

What you'll do...

• Partner with management to design and measure continuous process improvement work that integrates strategic and financial plans
• Oversee operations team efficiencies, including but not limited to technical planning and backlog management, and reporting and compliance delivery
• Ensure alignment of revenue optimization and operational process initiatives with goals and objectives and in accordance with sales, inventory, supply and customer metrics
• Conduct process mining and assess value streams for new workflows and programs
• Prepare quality and performance assessment documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends including failed processes, process improvement value‑adds, stability studies, corrective actions, and re‑validations.
• Enhance team and organizational reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests, exploring opportunities to add value and improving existing and new monitoring tools and tracking capabilities.
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with internal stakeholders
• Act as senior resource and gap-filling capacity for operating workflows and data collection
• Lead annual internal compliance audits

This role is hybrid – with 4 days in office per week. Candidate should be based in SE Michigan.

You’ll have...

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years’ experience in operations, product management, analytics, system dynamics, quality assurance or a relevant business role
• Strategic planning and improvement experience, and advanced business process development
• Data-driven approach to decision making with strong data modeling, reporting & metrics experience
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment on products and processes that are part of a rapidly evolving, nascent market
• High integrity
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to work autonomously
• Extremely organized with great attention to detail

• Even better, you may have... Preferred
• Master's Degree
• Preferred Requirements:
• Knowledge of vehicle electrification and charging solutions
• Experience with Jira, SharePoint and Salesforce (or similar system) automations and integrations
• Knowledge of lean and kaizen methodologies
• Computer science, data science or advanced process engineering degree or mid-career experience

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 range of salary grades 7-8 and ranges from $84,480-$166,200.

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.

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.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.