Battery Cell Manufacturing Manager
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $138,240 - $261,720 per year
About the role
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
battery manufacturingmanufacturing engineeringtooling installationequipment qualificationproduction ramp-upprocess flowsline layoutsengineering standardscontinuous improvementproject management
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationcommunicationbudget managementstatus reportingproblem-solvingteam managementstakeholder managementorganizational skillsadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in EngineeringMaster’s degree in Engineering (preferred)