Quality Vrt Lead jobs at Ford

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.

In this position...

Apply engineering principles & analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products.

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.

What you'll do…

• Assist reviewing and binning early claims binning claims and customer concerns with PVT engineers.
• Support VRT with statistical process control and data analysis.
• Participate with VRT team to conduct a periodic job observation.
• Update the status to completion of periodic job observation.
• Provide external and internal data checks for quality reviews.
• Maintain health chart schedule and assessments.
• Maintain and review quality leadership system charts for data accuracy and work group binning.
• Perform subsystem checks as required.
• Learning control plan and verify data entry as required into web-based data management.
• Assemble acceptance criteria visual aids for the VRT.
• Maintain cycle line lay out indicator mapping with the assistance of the VRT.
• Update and maintain the Quality Confirmation Map.
• Apply Quality principles and analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products.
• Analyze vehicle root causes, engage in mapping and corrective actions to reduce vehicle inventory.
• Lead role in resolving assembly related concerns. Lead variability reduction and lean manufacturing initiatives and best practices
• Implement interim and permanent corrective actions to resolve quality issues using 8D tool, 6 panel, etc.

You'll have...

• High School Diploma or GED
• Min 5 years Manufacturing Experience
• Min 5 years Quality experience
• Previous union experience
• Previous data experience
• Microsoft Office (excel, PowerPoint, word)
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Even better, you may have...

• Associate degree
• Black Belt trained or certified
• Knowledge of QARS, GSAR, ECB
• QLS Usage and Data Analysis
• WBDM Data Analysis and Interpretation
• AVIS Cell Data Analysis and Interpretation – Experience
• VOW Cell Data Analysis and Interpretation
• Error Proofing Data Analysis and Interpretation
• ONTRAC
• Quality Leadership System (QLS)
• Health Chart CTQ in E2KS

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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, 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.

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This position is a range of salary grades 6, 7 and 8.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Position Duties:

Drive SQCDPME by understanding and consistently applying standard manufacturing operating system processes. Validate and bridge operational needs to ensure the line is running safely, smoothly, and producing quality parts.

• S afety
  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards
  • Review department safety metrics and coordinate improvement activities
  • Serve as maintenance liaison for Arc Flash updates, Construction Service Safety audits/compliance checks, and inter-department Pre-Task Analyses
• Q uality
  • Direct data-driven maintenance processes to improve quality metrics (e.g., higher FTT, less scrap, less contamination, etc.)
  • Devise and implement strategy to tighten tolerances within specifications for fit, form and functionality
• D elivery
  • Coordinate the resources and activities required to ensure problem free start-ups
  • Facilitate start-up/shift-to-shift meetings
  • Facilitate constraint analysis and coordinate activities to eliminate bottlenecks
• C ost
  • Promote and ensure continuous improvement in the manufacturing engineering organization toward the common goal of improving product quality, plant competitiveness and total cost structure
  • Monitor, control, and improve Maintenance Cost Per Unit (MCPU)
  • Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives: meet or beat schedule
  • Manage and support material control (spare part inventory), repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews
• P eople
  • Supervise UAW hourly employees (mostly skilled trades)
  • Communication and Recognition
  • Participate in Time & Data Management meetings for scheduling, staffing, procurement, equipment maintenance, inventory control, constraint analysis, and the coordination of production activities with codependent departments
  • Build Team Leaders’ and Team Members’ capabilities, mentor subordinates
  • Create a conducive work environment for the team(s) to complete their assigned responsibilities / tasks; build and nurture a One Team environment
  • Basic Administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents
• M aintenance
  • This role is the lead for maintaining our Electrocoat Operation. Experience with this is a definite plus.
  • PLC knowledge to support the Electrocoat Operation and the supporting systems.
  • Lead all daily, weekend and shutdown maintenance planning with input from your team(s)
  • Integrate the maintenance plan into total department business plan
  • Maximize equipment effectiveness through a detailed, standardized, and prioritized preventive and predictive maintenance plan designed to improve productivity
  • Provide resources, support, and priorities for all maintenance actions; Use Maximo (MFM) to document all maintenance activities (planned and crisis) and create reports to support continuous improvement
  • Use Maximo to analyze data and evaluate the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance plan
  • Jointly coordinate maintenance and engineering activities
• E nvironment
  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.

In this position...

As a Quality Control Engineer your main responsibility is to ensure that products are made to the highest level of quality. This includes overseeing the quality of raw materials, production processes, and finished products. Your job description entails working with cross-functional teams to establish quality standards, testing processes, and inspection protocols. You will analyze data, create reports, and provide recommendations to improve quality.

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.

In this position...

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