Ford Motor Company

Staff Technical Program Manager – Inverter, Ebox PCBA, FCT, EOL testers

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Long Beach • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $123,960 - $234,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Manage and deliver power electronics on time.
  • Drive engineering teams towards containment and resolution of issues raised from design reviews, virtual builds, and build events to protect the program’s schedule to prototype build dates, start of production, and ongoing production.
  • Partner with teams at various levels of the organization and from different parts of the business to help define and drive a multi-year business capabilities roadmap & strategic vision.
  • Write detailed product requirements and end to end use cases to be used by engineering & design teams.
  • Act as bridge from the device owners to the controller developers. Collect technical specifications and write interface requirements to match.
  • Manage open issues list for internal and external projects, driving team to close items on time and at a high level of quality.
  • Facilitate and assist the team in creating and maintaining work products including but not limited to design analysis, component derating, functional safety, HW-SW integration.
  • Facilitate data-based decision making on time and with sufficient engineering background.
  • Effectively present information to technical or non-technical audiences ranging from team level meetings through to Executive briefs and updates.
  • Demonstrate functionality of completed products to internal team members and other stakeholders.
  • Develop metrics to assess the success of products and features and determine necessary enhancements.
  • Well-versed in defining roadmaps and delivering with teams that employ agile software development methodologies.
  • Anticipate and manage program(s) risks. Perform trade-offs and identify contingency plan(s) or alternate approaches to mitigate risks and provide strong leadership to team in circumstances where there may be uncertainty or ambiguity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor degree in Electrical, Computer Science, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
  • Expertise with Jira for project management and confluence
  • Expertise with JAMA for requirement documentation
  • Experience with project management tools such as Smartsheet or MS Project
  • Agile and scrum master experience, certification preferred.
  • Experience with automotive is a plus.
  • Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously in time sensitive situations of extreme ambiguity, with only high-level direction.
  • Experience with 3DX, SAP is a plus.
  • Ability to craft clear, compelling recommendations supported by strong analysis and business logic, and articulate them to the organization to gain support for recommendations.
  • This candidate must be able to work effectively with globally staffed cross functional teams, manage multiple work tasks simultaneously, and deliver complex object-oriented engineering solutions across a highly integrated landscape.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
power electronicsdesign analysisfunctional safetyHW-SW integrationmetrics developmentagile software developmentobject-oriented engineering
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingdata-based decision makingrisk managementautonomycollaboration
Certifications
Agile certificationScrum Master certification