Heavy Duty Truck Platform Chief Engineer

Hd Truck Platform Chief

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves? In this position… The heavy duty (HD) Ford trucks are anchors in the Ford business, and they are more critical now than ever. We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced manager to join our team as the HD Truck Platform Chief. In this role, the candidate will be responsible for leading platform engineering for the HD trucks while coordinating with the light duty trucks and utilities to drive scale, quality, and enable efficient development of amazing products that our customers will love. To be successful in this role, you will recognize yourself as an effective problem solver across all skill teams, with strong technical and leadership skills, and have demonstrated success and delivery in a high-pressure environment. You will be a key leader of our HD Crown Jewel products but will also directly affect business results for an outsized portion of the company.

What you'll do…

• Drive Commonality and Scale across Heavy Duty and Light Duty truck and utility derivatives
• Lead bundled platform development to minimize future investment and churn for heavy duty variants
• Lead underbody on time high quality underbody gateways for heavy duty truck derivatives
• Leverage of team rooms to enable speed in decision-making, issue resolution and milestone stability
• Deliver platform scale efficiency in material cost and investment working with Supply Chain and Engineering teams
• Identify and deliver efficient platform solutions that support program quality targets and customer needs

You'll have…

• Vehicle Architecture and/or Vehicle Engineering and/or Design and Release experience
• Program management and/or systems engineering experience
• Prior experience with platform engineering highly preferred
• Engineering degree is required and Masters is preferred
• Experience coaching and mentoring a new and growing team

Even better, you may have…

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and balance cross program input to make best corporate decision
• Strong partnership with Supply Chain team to leverage scale material cost and investment savings
• Proven bold leadership and delivery with large, global, cross-functional teams
• Excellent organization skills and ability to remain resilient in times of ambiguity and change
• Ability to operate independently and to bring teams together to work effectively with undefined processes
• Act as a partner to the Chief Program Engineers to drive exceptional successful program delivery

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply! As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

This position is a leadership level 4. For more information on salary and benefits, click here.

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Requisition ID: 49844