Hybrid Commodity Supervisor – Core Body Construction Engineering

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Commodity Supervisor – Core Body Construction Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $115,500 - $218,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Assembly
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• Commodity Supervisor leading engineering in body construction for new model development at Ford. Balancing lean practices with innovation to enhance manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead an energetic team of manufacturing engineers through process, product, labor, and investment optimization.
• Balance lean manufacturing principles with new technology for both auto and manual operations at various capacity levels.
• Provide engineering leadership through virtual product and process DPA through UPV2 end.
• Global lead of manufacturing requirements. Work with product development and our regional partners through BoD / BoP, modular architecture, and design rule activities.
• Support current model TVM, product / process benchmarking, and working with product development through the next generation closure assembly implementation that balance studio requirements with real world process capability.
• Lead the lesson learned feedback loop to drive Process Driven Product Design.
• Develop and manage relations with our tooling vendors for current and future model tooling.
• Maintain oversight from the point of creating our statement of work through tool buyoff and launch at the assembly site.
• Drive resolution of manufacturing issues.
• Validate manufacturing feasibility for throughput, future model flexibility, and sustainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or engineering technology.
• 7 plus years in body construction and / or two new model launches
• Willingness to travel (up to 40-50%) and support launch activities at our North American Assembly plants.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Project, and PowerPoint), Teamcenter, & AutoCAD.
• Sound oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a focused attention on component and system level quality to identify root cause to achieve process capability. Willingness to become a certified 6-Sigma black belt.
• “Hands On” tooling experience.
• Systems engineering experience including GD&T, DVA, and how to achieve process capability.
• Working knowledge of statistical tools (Minitab, control charts, data collection, etc.).

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.