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New Model Launch Supervisor, Vehicle and Powertrain

3 weeks ago

Allen Park, Michigan, United States Ford Motor Full time
Description

This leadership role is paramount to achieving launch excellence for new vehicle and powertrain models across Ford's North America Manufacturing Plants. The Supervisor will drive success by leading, mentoring, and empowering a high-performing team of launch engineers and will collaborate cross-functionally with diverse skill teams, extending through all management tiers, to ensure adherence to critical launch processes and standards. This leader will also effectively engage and communicate with senior leadership up to the Director level on launch risks and opportunities.

Responsibilities
  • Budget Management: Ensuring the new model launch is completed within or under the allocated budget.
  • Pre-Production Oversight: Managing all activities leading up to the initial prototype and pre-production vehicle builds, ensuring these early builds are cost-effective and meet quality standards.
  • Design Change Approval: Reviewing and approving design changes throughout the product development lifecycle, making sure these changes are supported in pre-production builds and thoroughly tested ("proven out") before the official launch.
  • Team Support Setup: Ensuring all necessary facilities and resources (like desks, phones, conference rooms, and diagnostic tools) are available for the on-site launch team.
  • Issue Resolution: Overseeing an issue management system to track and resolve all issues that could impact the launch, focusing on unresolved and long-standing problems.
  • Customer Feedback Integration: Supporting the process of addressing concerns raised by early customer feedback vehicles (often called "Voice of the Customer Fleet") and ensuring these issues are resolved before launch.
  • Change Control Management: Managing the new model program's (NMP) involvement in the overall change control process (which may involve electronic approvals), ensuring that any proposed changes are necessary and implemented at the correct time.
  • Risk Mitigation: Leading the development of strategies to reduce risks associated with parts that are not yet at full production quality, including plans to test and validate them for a high-quality launch.
  • Production Readiness Approval: Leading the "Open to Go" process, which includes verifying the origin and quality of parts ("part pedigree") and providing final approval for any deviations or alerts needed for parts not fully approved for production ("PPAP") before critical build events.
  • Plant Issue Tracking: Supporting the manufacturing issue management (often a "whiteboard" process) to ensure issues are resolved promptly.
  • Reporting: Proactively identify and dimension launch risks, escalating for timely mitigation and clearly articulating status in NMP assessments.
  • Meeting Coordination: Managing the schedule of on-site launch meetings and coordinating daily launch activities.
  • Launch Review Presentations: Preparing and presenting comprehensive launch reviews, from early stages through to the "OK to Buy" decision point.
  • Production Readiness Scorecards: Leading the approval of "OK to Build/Ship/Buy" scorecards at specific project milestones and beyond, ensuring these scorecards are prepared for review at all management meetings.
  • On-Site Modifications: Leading the process for any modifications needed on-site, tracking these changes, and working with the plant and suppliers to manage part updates and inventory reduction plans.
  • Lessons Learned: Documenting and sharing lessons learned from assigned launch programs to improve future launches.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate extensively and cross-functionally with Launch Specialists, diverse skill teams, and leadership spanning all levels, up to Directors, to drive integrated solutions and ensure seamless project execution.
  • Standardization: Promoting consistent practices by adhering to established Launch Quality Standards (LQOS).
  • Team Leadership: Responsibly allocating team resources across different programs based on workload and skills, ensuring successful launches, and managing personnel functions, including training.

Travel Requirement: This position requires frequent and extensive travel, including long-term assignments (up to 9-12 months at a time) to support vehicle assembly plants during new model launches.

Qualifications

You'll have...

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related field.
  • 4+ Years of experience in Powertrain/Vehicle Operations manufacturing, design, and/or program management, with Project management or launch experience.
  • 4+ years of experience demonstrating a strong understanding of the processes and methodologies involved in bringing new vehicle models from development into full-scale production.
  • 2+ years of experience with Engineering Change Management and Issue Management
  • 2+ years of experience with problem solving disciplines using statistical mindsets.
  • Project management and/or launch experience.
  • Skilled in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project.

Even better, you may have...
 

  • Master of Science degree in Engineering or related field.  
  • 6+ Years of experience in Powertrain/Vehicle Operations manufacturing, design, and/or program management, with Project management or launch experience.
  • 6+ years of experience demonstrating a strong understanding of the processes and methodologies involved in bringing new vehicle models from development into full-scale production.
  • 3+ Years of Leadership/Supervisory level experience.
  • 4+ years of experience with Engineering Change Management and Issue Management
  • 4+ years of experience with problem solving disciplines using statistical mindsets.
  • Skilled in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project.
  • Project management and/or launch experience.

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.

This position is a salary grade 6.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. 
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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. 

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