Quality Analyst

Ford Motor Company

NA Vehicle Logistics Quality Analyst ensuring quality in supply chain operations. Focused on damage-free vehicle delivery and collaboration with logistics partners.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $86,600 - $144,900 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The primary goal for NA Vehicle Logistics (NAVL) Quality & Claims is providing a damage-free vehicle to the final destination while maintaining cost, dwell, and other objectives. To deliver on the goal of becoming a leader in damage-free delivery, this candidate will focus on projects and establishing measurable goals to achieve and monitor the desired outcome
Meet and exceed NAVL Quality objectives by facilitating, improving, and implementing actions that will reduce transportation damage and dwell within the vehicle shipping process.
Quick analytical abilities to rapidly resolve issues as they arise.
Maintain & improve upon relationships between Ford and our finished vehicle logistics carrier partners to deliver best-in-class quality.
Devise and implement improvements in the overall in-transit repair (ITR) process for exception units
Perform load tests, as required, for future model vehicles and other key model changes on rail and/or carhaul to clearly document & define any potential concerns that could impact the ability to ship the unit damage-free and/or create load density issues that ultimately impact the cost to ship a unit.
Leverage BI Dashboard to identify where action is needed to significantly improve Ford's damage-free delivery performance and have critical conversations with carriers, as necessary.
Engage with Plant Quality and Production teams to cut-off repetitive exceptions that are flowing through the release gate. This data would be provided either by a carrier who expressly shares a concern or through the use of automated inspection systems that this candidate may also be responsible for managing and/or utilizing the data.
Create, monitor, and maintain various PO's necessary to support functions for this section.
Utilization of automated vehicle inspection systems and maintenance of projects surrounding this space.
Lead and establish quality reviews with carriers, as necessary.
Attend, as required, various industry conferences (AAR, AIAG, etc.)
Travel, as required (max 5 business days / month), to support various projects or activities. Travel is predominantly to Ford plant location areas but may also extend to destination locations.
Support direct communication to dealers from generic department mailbox.
Drive leadership within the Quality & Claims space of the industry.
Disposition of non-saleable as new (NSAN) units.
Manage necessary reinvoicing tasks as required
Engage and provide direction, as needed, with 3rd party claims management firm

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors of Business Administration
3-5 years of experience within supply chain management
Ability to work independently and make critical decisions with limited supervision required.
Ability to lead cross-functional groups to resolve concerns
Excellent writing, oral, and presentation abilities as the successful candidate will also be communicating with Ford leadership, suppliers, and other 3rd parties that are often customer facing.
High level of analytical skills with a history of leveraging data, managing a project to deliver a solution, and validating that the action was successful towards delivering the desired outcome.
Must be open to travel
Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks on any given day
Ability to thrive in a potentially highly stressful area of the industry where multiple issues could be occurring at any given point-in-time; candidate must be able to manage competing objectives and instantly triage problems as they arise.
Proficient in the use of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

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

supply chain managementanalytical skillsproject managementdata analysisload testingin-transit repair processquality reviewsclaims managementcost managementtransportation damage reduction

Soft Skills

independent decision-makingleadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingstress managementcross-functional collaborationpresentation skillswriting skillscritical thinking

Certifications

Bachelor of Business Administration