Hybrid Battery Cell Manufacturing Manager

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About the role

  • Battery Cell Manufacturing Manager leading engineering teams responsible for battery cell manufacturing at Ford. Driving planning, development, and implementation in a high-performance environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and manage battery manufacturing engineering teams to support the design, planning, and launch of battery cell manufacturing lines.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of battery cell manufacturing systems, including installation, commissioning, qualification, and production ramp-up.
  • Define manufacturing concepts, line layouts, equipment specifications, and process flows to meet performance, quality, cost, and safety targets.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with product design, operations, quality, supply chain, facilities, to ensure seamless program execution.
  • Partner closely with external technology partners, equipment suppliers, and system integrators to ensure manufacturing systems meet technical, investment, and timing requirements.
  • Establish engineering standards, lessons learnt and documentation to support scalable manufacturing and continuous improvement.
  • Track program milestones, budgets, and KPIs, and provide clear status reporting to senior leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Manufacturing, or related field); Master’s degree preferred.
  • 8+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, with extensive experience in tooling installation and launch of battery cell manufacturing or high-volume manufacturing systems
  • Proven experience leading engineering teams and launch complex manufacturing lines from concept through ramp-up.
  • Experience working with external technology partners and equipment vendors on capital equipment projects.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage budgets, schedules, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Willingness to travel extensively to equipment suppliers during design/FAT, and to plant during launch.
  • Prefer understanding of battery cell manufacturing processes, equipment qualification, and production ramp methodologies.

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.

Job title

Battery Cell Manufacturing Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$138,240 - $261,720 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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