Hybrid Battery Cell Manufacturing Manager

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Battery Cell Manufacturing Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $138,240 - $261,720 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

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.