Ford Engineer Ford BlueOval City Electric Vehicle Center 

United States, Tennessee 

601994652

In this position...

As a member of the Plant IT team, you will be hands on assisting and launching the plant in producing this very exciting and brand-new platform of vehicles for the NA consumer market. As part of the job responsibilities, you will interface and support IT across a broad host of Infrastructure & Applications that the plant uses to produce these exhilarating vehicles.

You will lend your knowledge and experiences to support process improvement efforts toward flexible and lean manufacturing, enabling Factory of Tomorrow (e.g., IIOT, Software-defined networks, next-generation error proofing, digital broadcast, and various mobility solutions)

What you'll do...

While the plant is being built, you will be transitioning between Dearborn MI and Stanton TN as required by the program timing and Op Comm engagements. Expectations are that you will eventually be resident in the greater Stanton/Memphis area by year end 2024. Pre-production builds will begin in mid 2025 with full production late 2026. During this time, you will be able to:

• Support, launch, deploy all new systems required for the plant, End user Support, Applications from quality to production.

• Support a multi-shift operation in launch mode of a greenfield manufacturing plant.

• Work flexible hours and rotating schedule to support business processes (days, nights and or weekends/holidays)

• Provide technical support (Manufacturing IT applications, infrastructure, operating systems, end-user-productivity tools) to plant business customers throughout the manufacturing plant

• Interface with corporate IT and business owners to prioritize improvement efforts

• Support Plant Floor Systems / PDO teams in resolving incidents; Provide triage and business continuity plans, support escalations, provide hands and feet to support teams and other global teams (i.e. DBA, Server Operations, Ops Control, Network Operations)

• Focus on the integration / long term maintenance of applications and hardware

• Assist site IT manager with managing assignments and workload

• Develop, maintain, and share, accurate support documentation

• Support local network equipment in a Cisco based environment

• Support local servers across both physical and virtual environments in a Windows and Linux based ecosystem

• Support FOT deployments and expansion efforts utilizing IIIOT, iOS, software-defined network, mobile, and Android based equipment.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Technology related field.
• Six months related-work experience.
• Ability to support a multi-shift, 24x7 operation
• Resourceful and creative, self-driven.

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Technology related field.
• Extensive knowledge of Manufacturing Business Processes (Powertrain, Vehicle Operations)
• Broad knowledge of IT Infrastructure and manufacturing applications
• Ability to manage through difficult situations
• Ability to proactively manage critical application availability in a production environment

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.

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This position is a salary grade 6.