Vehicle Planning & Strategy Staff Engineer

at  Ford Motor Company

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
Ford Model E is responsible for developing the key technologies and capabilities – such as EV platforms, batteries, e-motors, inverters, charging and recycling – to create ground-up, breakthrough electric vehicles. By joining the best software, engineering, design and UX talent, you will be a part of creating new technologies and concepts that can be applied across the Ford enterprise. Being on the Ford Model E team means building the future as Ford’s center of innovation and growth through electric and connected vehicles and services.
The Vehicle Planning & Strategy Staff Engineer is part of the team that defines the next generation of EV vehicles. You will be responsible for global strategic studies and integration of teams to deliver compelling, feasible, and viable products. You will work with marketing, design, engineering, finance and manufacturing to develop the product concept, architecture, and financials into a compelling and compatible product. You will also work to transform the product development process.

THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS WE SEEK:

• Engineering or Business degree required. Advanced degree desired but not required.
• Customer Focused Vehicle Planning & Strategy
• Strong collaboration skills to integrate vehicle cross-functional teams
• Strong Strategic Skills
• Strong program management and planning skills
• 5+ years of experience working on production vehicle development, from concept to launch3+ years of experience in Program, Project or Product Management & Strategy

OUR PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

Results Driven in White Space and Fast Paced Environment

• Strong desire to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability and willingness to navigate in a “process-less” space and still achieve aspirational results.
• Customer-focused with an open mind to work differently from standard process.
• Creative to find innovative/integrated solutions.
• Ability to work with all employee levels from technical personnel to senior management.

Self Motivation & Responsibility

• Self-motivated and eager to take responsibility.
• Ability to deliver results with minimal supervision.

Communication Skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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• Use your strategic skills to shape the global product strategy
• Use your customer, engineering and business skills to integrate cross functional teams to deliver compelling, feasible and viable products.
• Lead and manage team setup, program assumptions, change control, communication, issues management, financial estimates, and industrialization plans.
• Lead teams to deliver on time and with quality, setting up schedule with cadence of key decisions, checkpoints, deliverables, etc.
• Plan the business case of the vehicle with finance, manufacturing, marketing, etc.
• Create and effectively deploy a more efficient product development process.