Product Development Analyst – Data and Enterprise Integration
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $84,480 - $162,120 per year
About the role
- Support benchmarking of Ford and industry-standard Engineering BOM and release processes
- Gather and document current-state workflows, pain points, gaps, and improvement opportunities
- Assist in defining “ideal state” Engineering BOM processes with cross-functional partners
- Prepare materials for workshops (process maps, data, examples) and help capture outcomes and action items
- Contribute to analysis of current vs. future state roles/responsibilities (Rs&Rs), processes, and enabling tools
- Help explore expanded use of automation and AI to improve BOM quality, consistency, and efficiency
- Support communication and alignment across Engineering teams by developing summaries, updates, and visuals
- Assist with Synergy / Value Stream Mapping initiatives through data collection, analysis, and documentation
- Track open issues, decisions, and follow-ups to help keep initiatives moving forward
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of experience supporting hardware engineering, product development, or industrialization activities
- Experience with defining BOM
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (ability to document clearly and present effectively)
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and supporting process improvement efforts
- Familiarity with industrialization concepts and methods used in automotive or related industries
- Strong presentation and Excel capability
- Experience with BOM structures, part release workflows, and product data management concepts (preferred)
- Experience building process maps, conducting workflow analysis, or supporting value stream mapping (preferred)
- Exposure to automation, analytics, or AI-enabled process improvement (even at a pilot/learning level) (preferred)
- Comfort working with engineering data, spreadsheets, dashboards, or reporting tools (preferred)
- Ford legacy BOM tools (FEDEBOM, WERS, CMMS3, etc.) (preferred)
- 3DX/Catia (preferred)
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
BOM definitionprocess mappingworkflow analysisvalue stream mappingautomationAI-enabled process improvementproduct data managementExcelengineering data analysis
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationcross-functional teamworkprocess improvementpresentation skills