Quality Engineer, Ford Energy

Responsibilities

• Lead with Purpose: Build and lead an agile team to deliver the advanced quality standards and technology that drive the future.
• Innovate: Use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions during the design, construction, and launch phases of a massive Greenfield manufacturing site.
• Empower Others: Create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought, and foster leadership in others to make quality a shared organizational responsibility.
• Greenfield Quality Excellence & Manufacturing Systems: Apply engineering principles and analytical techniques to drive continuous improvement in automated battery manufacturing processes.
• Play an Integral Part in the Launch Process: Establish and monitor quality target levels at the workstation level for each build phase to validate workstation readiness.
• Manage and Direct Statistical Process Control (SPC) Activities: Utilize control charts, data collection, and GD&T to minimize manufacturing variation.
• Conduct Process Audits: Ensure the production process adheres to strict guidelines, specific process standards, and environmental/quality compliance (including ISO 14001, ISO 9001, and IATF 16949).
• Support Efficiency Planning: Ensure workstations are properly set up with quality risks and failure modes (PFMEA) proactively identified and addressed.
• Leadership & Culture: Develop "Leaders as Teachers": Function as the leader and subject matter expert for your specified section of the production line. Coordinate activities and drive improvements to achieve plant KPIs.
• Embrace the Gemba Philosophy: Regularly engage on the production floor to act as the team leader in resolving assembly-related concerns and driving lean manufacturing initiatives.
• Remove Barriers: Lead variability reduction, lean manufacturing best practices, and the development of solutions for throughput constraints.
• Champion Transparency: Work cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, and Suppliers.
• Flexibility: Ability to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation, including flexibility to work across shifts, weekends, and extended hours as business needs dictate.
• Strategic Management & Integrity: Develop relevant KPIs and data visualizations to enable a clear, real-time understanding of actual vs. expected quality and process performance.
• Provide Robust Change Management Leadership: Ensure all process, equipment, and product modifications are executed with zero impact on quality integrity.
• Capitalize on Strategic Visionary: Translate the evolving quality needs of the battery industry into actionable long-term continuous improvement strategies.
• Decisive Under Pressure: Ability to make rapid, data-driven quality decisions during facility constraints or critical equipment failures.
• Adaptability: The resilience to lead through the ambiguity of a new site startup, supporting a 24/7 operation including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, or related field).
• Experience: 3+ years of manufacturing process or quality engineering experience in an automated manufacturing facility.
• Technical Knowledge: Working knowledge of statistics (control charts, data collection, GD&T), PFMEA, and 3D CAD review abilities (3D Experience, CATIA, or equivalent).
• Strong Understanding of Industrial Controls and Automation: Demonstrated ability to support and launch programs with a results-oriented mindset and strong project management skills.
• Startup Experience: Demonstrated ability to support and launch programs with a results-oriented mindset and strong project management skills.
• Master’s Degree in Engineering or MBA: Prior experience in a facility start-up or new equipment commissioning.
• Experience with Advanced Manufacturing Technologies: Experience with advanced manufacturing technologies, including vision/camera systems, error-proofing (Poka-yoke) systems, and/or robotics.
• Leverage Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma: Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Green/Black Belt certification (DMAIC, DMADV/DFSS).
• Expertise in 8D, 5-Why, FMEA, PPAP, DOEs, and Value Stream Mapping: Expertise in 8D, 5-Why, FMEA, PPAP, DOEs, and Value Stream Mapping.
• Skills in Print Reading, Tool Layouts, Gauging, and Ergonomic Analysis: Demonstrated skills in print reading, tool layouts, gauging, and ergonomic analysis.
• Quality Focus: Demonstrated skills in print reading, tool layouts, gauging, and ergonomic analysis.
• Decision Making: Demonstrated skills in print reading, tool layouts, gauging, and ergonomic analysis.
• Adaptability: The resilience to lead through the ambiguity of a new site startup, supporting a 24/7 operation including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Pay

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

Schedule

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