ELMS Automation Supervisor

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The ELMS Web Applications Engineering Supervisor is responsible for leading the team who designs, codes, tests, releases and supports ELMS for Ford’s VEV organization. Vehicle Evaluation and Verification (VEV) is responsible for testing and verification of Ford’s global vehicles. The Enhanced Laboratory Management System (ELMS) is the locally developed and supported web-based suite of test lab, prototype planning and business applications to facilitate and manage the work performed by VEV.

The ideal people leader will apply experience and passion for delivering applications and tools that improve the management of processes and operations with high-quality, reliable data and information.

• Partner with operations teams and process leads to develop and deploy robust solutions: effective, performant and reliable applications and tools that satisfy/support process needs.
• Motivate and assist the team to exercise strong process modelling and coding skills with creativity, resourcefulness, ingenuity and self-motivation.
• Identify the need for and help coordinate the assessment and adoption of updates to technology for the hosting infrastructure and code base supporting ELMS.
• Drive robust and rapid issue resolution that solves for local and global system faults / outages with speed and long-term reliability.
• Ensure 100% compliance to IT Systems Controls per Ford’s Information Security Policy (ISP) requirements as a Business Managed Application/System.
• Adopt a clear architectural view of transaction data in our applications as a valuable and readily available asset for process analytics and insight discovery.
• Promote/facilitate the proper and effective use of AI tools and resources to support the code generation for the applications. Identify and enable AI-based functions as useful integrations to enhance core functionalities and deliver breakthrough capabilities.

ELMS Team Responsibilities:

• Deliver Regional and Global expansion of ELMS applications in the test laboratory and business environments. Extend ELMS benefits to new facilities and/or organizations with steadily increasing feature content.
• Investigate opportunities to integrate/automate labor-intensive or disconnected data management/reporting functions and utilize the ELMS environment to deliver substantial quality and efficiency improvements for operations and organizations.
• Work collaboratively with Corporate IT to ensure appropriate levels of independence, integration, and control are established on all systems. Assist with infrastructure/server configuration, maintenance and enhancement. Deliver infrastructure as code in cloud environments.
• Develop reliable and secure connections between the ELMS environment and other Ford Corporate IT or Business Managed systems. Utilize and/or help develop reliable APIs. Provision and populate cloud data repositories.
• Enable efforts lead by other teams who provide test site automation and reporting capabilities for lab performance, metrics generation, and business automation. Includes connections to third-party lab systems.
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