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As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.
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Global Paint Engineering - Color Development and Harmony Engineer
Color Development and Harmony Engineer within the Global Paint Engineering department will serve as a primary technical expert responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of automotive paint finishes, from initial development through the program implementation. This role involves qualifying advanced paint color technologies and providing critical engineering support to ensure seamless color harmony across various vehicle components and platforms. By collaborating with core engineering teams, you will oversee the technical qualification process and lead the integration of new colors onto global vehicle programs, ensuring that all colors meet required appearance, quality and functional standards.
What you'll do:
- Provide color technical support to core engineering during the development, qualification, and implementation of new programs
- Act as a key resource in technical matters involving color development and color harmony for all Global Assembly Plants
- Identify and replicate best practices and new color development and color harmony for all Global Assembly Plants
- Define Paint shop baseline paint assumptions and specifications to maximize process reliability and color quality
- Provide training and coaching to technicians, managers, and manufacturing engineers in the organization
- Capture and disseminate color specifications, guidelines, best practices, must/wants, and lessons learned across platforms to maximize the collective value of individual team's experiences
- Facilitate the development and release of new materials to advance our SQDCME objectives
- Support the color complexity reduction initiatives and drive actions to support the color complexity objectives
Minimum Qualifications:
- BSc, Engineering (Chemical pref) OR Chemistry
- 5+ years' experience working in a manfuacturing environment with Paint manufacturing processes
- Extensive knowledge and experience in Paint materials, Paint processes, and Color development
- Strong interpersonal skills, and ability to work in a team environment and a willingness to assume a technical leadership position in the organization and demonstrate potential advance
- Strong understanding of basic statistics, statistical process control (SPC), and proficiency with data analysis software such as MS Excel and Minitab
- Strong communication skills, and ability to organize and present information at all organization levels
- Able to travel to support manufacturing sites, color harmony teams, and vehicle program launch teams
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including: • 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.
This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $74,300-$124,500.
This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.
This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.
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.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.
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