Process Control Team Supervisor – Manufacturing Engineering

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.

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.

At Ford, we are on a mission to become the industry benchmark for automotive quality. A robust Control Plan is central to this strategy – it is a structured quality-management document used to describe the systems in place to control product quality. A Control Plan provides a written summary of the systems used to minimize variation, tying together product characteristics (dimensions, specs), process characteristics (machine settings, cycle times), the control methods used to monitor them, and the reaction plans if something goes out of spec.

To execute this, VME Final Assembly is launching a brand-new Process Control Team. This team will be responsible for developing and implementing next generation process control strategies across all Vehicle Operations plants. The ultimate goal of this leadership role is to cement Ford as the Quality leader in automotive industry.

As the Process Control Team Supervisor, sitting within the Global Manufacturing Engineering organization, you will build and lead a dedicated team of engineers across two critical work streams:
Strategy/Process and Plant Implementation. You will drive both immediate interim solutions and long-term permanent solutions to protect our customers.

• Review Significant and Critical Characteristics cascaded by Product Development to enhance our current control plans.
• Provide strategic engineering recommendations based on this analysis, determining the specific design or tooling enablers required to implement enhanced control methods.
• Direct the continuous updating of existing Control Plans based on proposed engineering recommendations, and oversee the rigorous review of core PFMEAs to ensure all control plans align perfectly with foundational quality documents.
• Lead cross-functional reviews with Product Development (PD), Quality, and VME stakeholders to align on effective control methods and assign cross-functional DRIs (PD, VME, ATP, etc.) for required actions.
• Drive the interim vs. permanent control strategy, securing signed exceptions for interim actions while engineering robust, permanent solutions.
• Oversee the auditing, creation, and continuous updating of core PFMEAs, Control Plans, and Process Sheets to ensure absolute alignment with Ford’s quality framework.
• Deliver executive-level report-outs to senior leadership on risk reduction metrics and project status.
• Support the development of real-time data visualization dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Qlik Sense) to track the progress across all facilities.

• Guide your team, alongside VME core, ATP, and suppliers, in developing comprehensive action plans and Statements of Work (SOWs) for new process control tooling based on Workstream 1 findings.
• Support the acquisition of supplier quotes and collaborate with Financial Analysts to secure funding and write requisitions for tooling upgrades across NA VO plants.
• Lead the on-site execution strategy for both rapid interim containment solutions and long‑term permanent controls.
• Deploy your engineering team to supervise the installation of new equipment, advanced vision systems, complex error‑proofing systems, and smart tools alongside plant personnel.
• Coordinate with Industrial Engineering teams to acquire labor estimates and update operations, driving the complete installation and operationalization of all new tooling and software systems.
• Partner with plant operations and IT teams to establish robust validation criteria, ensuring new equipment operates precisely as…