Manufacturing Launch Engineer

Ford Ford · Auto · Redford Charter Twp, MI +1 · Manufacturing

This role is for a Manufacturing Launch Engineer at Ford, focusing on deploying and scaling new industrial platforms and technologies within manufacturing operations. The engineer will act as a subject matter expert, engage with customers (internal manufacturing sites), collect feedback, and align leadership on roadmap activities. The role requires experience in launch environments, manufacturing engineering, and operational excellence frameworks like the Ford Production System.

What you'd actually do

  1. Product Awareness - Working with each ATP Product Vertical to understand the problems being targeted with available products and products in development
  2. Product Expertise - Hands-on experience to become the SME on available products as they roll out to customers, working in partnership with ATP Product Teams to deploy flawlessly and support for the life of the product
  3. Customer Engagement - Collect Feedback on opportunities, concerns, and requests to create a 2-way sustainable communication channel between implementation and product development activities
  4. Leadership Alignment Strategy - Support the communication of roadmap activities from the plant floor through the Directors of Manufacturing

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering, Project Management, or equivalent
  • 1+ years in a Launch environment for new process equipment and/or New Model Vehicle Programs
  • 1+ years in Manufacturing Engineering
  • 2+ years of progressive responsibilities in manufacturing operations leadership
  • Proven success leading large-scale transformations on multi-site manufacturing environments using the Ford Production System (FPS) or any similar operational excellence framework
  • Demonstrated record of building trust with employees and creating positive and healthy cultures through excellent servant leadership skills
  • Deep expertise in executing Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and Policy deployment events
  • Experience in managing lean maturity assessment models

Nice to have

  • Aspiration for continued career growth and new challenges
  • A willingness to learn, the flexibility and agility to adapt as products grow from concepts into common place pillars of Manufacturing Operations

What the JD emphasized

  • travel (50-75%)