Supervisor, Exterior Lighting

Ford • Dearborn, MI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.
Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!
The Ford Exterior Lighting Applications Supervisor role spans a variety of engineering fields including mechanical, electrical, software and optics. This position involves responsibilities including definition of requirements, tooling, validation testing, and launching in an assembly plant during the development of Exterior Lighting products throughout a vehicle’s lifecycle. This role requires an engineering supervisor to lead and drive a cross functional team that includes lighting engineers, systems engineers, lighting suppliers, studio, purchasing, manufacturing, and quality functions. Our ideal candidate desires to build their career within exterior lighting. This candidate must demonstrate clear communication, project management skills, and is a passionate, hard-working person who enjoys taking on challenges and following through with robust solutions.
In this position...
Supervise a talented team of Exterior Lighting Applications Engineers to deliver exciting Exterior Lighting products and features.
• Lead Systems Engineering for Exterior Lighting Applications.
• Generate and execute technical solutions for Exterior Lighting components to support new vehicle programs.
• Perform complex engineering evaluation analysis.
• Work cross-functionally to implement cost savings, product improvements, and to support prototype and production build activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering discipline (Electrical, Mechanical, and/or Optical)
• 5+ years of lighting applications and/or other relative experience.
• 10+ years of body exterior applications and/or other relative experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree or other Advanced Degree (Electrical, Mechanical, and/or Optical).
• 10+ years of lighting applications and/or other related experience.
• Familiarity with Design For Six Sigma process.
• Experience with DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing).
• Knowledge of plastic materials, plastic injection molding, optics, basic electrical/electronic circuitry, lamp manufacturing processes, tooling, fixture design and product validation.
• Knowledge of global lighting regulations.

Responsibilities

• Balance attributes such as cost, weight, complexity, and timing.
• Supervise product development, production release, validation, and launch of Exterior Lighting systems, subsystems, and components.
• Communicate information to and from internal and external organizations.
• Lead team meetings (suppliers, designers, engineers, manufacturing, supplier quality, etc.).
• Travel as required (including international).

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager