Manufacturing IT Quality Application Product Manager

Ford Motor Company

Manufacturing IT Product Manager leading global Quality Leadership System Component Management team at Ford. Focus on system development and support operations for critical plant floor applications.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $132,800 - $250,800 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

This is a Manufacturing IT Product Manager position with a focus on system development & global support operations for the Quality Tracking System (QTS) platform - a critical 2-way communication system between manufacturing Operations Technology devices (Process Logic Controllers - PLC) and related IT solutions that are leveraged to build vehicles components (Engine/Transmission/Axle/Battery/etc..).
You will lead a multi-regional team, across all time zones, and all manufacturing plant production shifts, to collaborate with engineers from the Vehicle Battery & Powertrain Manufacturing Engineering teams, as the accountable person, for Powertrain (and Vehicle Battery) solution development, operations support, as well as strategy (both containment and transformational).
You will manage a team of senior technical IT engineers, to support and fulfill the Ford Motor Company’s organizational Objectives (as set by the Business Owners and by the IT leadership).
You will be responsible for the prioritized decision making, development and ongoing maintenance of products in the manufacturing space using systems thinking, test-driven development principles.
As a technical leader you will work closely with your IT team, with Business owners, as well as each Site IT staff (located around the world) and with Incident Escalation Managers, to deliver across 4 main focus areas. 1. Business Advancement (new product features and configurations; new vehicle programs); 2. Modernization (product compliance; device refresh (strategy and implementations, such as servers, databases, and aging floor computers); 3. Run and Protect (support operations for 60 manufacturing plants existing (365/24/7), and for new global programs being stood up); and 4. Compliance which includes improvements for how we do our work (system monitors; health alerts; CI/CD pipeline (continuous integration, continuous delivery)). These efforts aim to minimize Manufacturing production downtime; meet Business demands; improve vehicle (component) Quality (information; tracking; traceability); reduce Company risk.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline, OR a combination of education and experience.
7+ years of deep Manufacturing technical experience (IT/Engineering/Operations) including PLC, OPC, Middleware, Client Server, Message Queue, Database
Working knowledge of full-stack software development processes and tools (Web services / Visual Studio / Machine PLC / or equivalent)
Demonstrated strength and experience with Incident Management (Troubleshooting; 8D; 6Sigma; Business continuity; Disaster Recovery; SLA/MTTA/MTTR)
5+ years Leader of Project teams (IT / Engineering / Operations)
Visionary leadership behaviors (servant leader; transformational; long term resiliency; tactical; strategic)
Proven capability to thrive in a challenging & dynamic, global, automotive environment (365/24/7)
Excellent written and oral communications skills to a range of target audiences: Executives, Technical Engineers, Plant manufacturing teams, Operators
Demonstrated strength and experience with Strategy (Business analysis; ROI; Strategic IT planning; Hidden Factory; GEMBA.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Manufacturing ITQuality Tracking System (QTS)Process Logic Controllers (PLC)MiddlewareClient ServerMessage QueueDatabaseFull-stack software developmentIncident ManagementContinuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Soft Skills

LeadershipVisionary leadershipServant leaderTransformational leadershipStrategic thinkingExcellent communicationTeam collaborationProblem-solvingAdaptabilityResiliency

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceEngineering discipline