ELMS Automation Supervisor

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!

You'll have...Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
5+ years’ experience with operations management processes and supporting software tools creation and development.

Familiarity with systems and tools found in domains tangential to prototype build plan and test operations management processes; e.g., finance, purchasing, capital spend, supplier relations, ERP, vehicle program management, PLM-System Requirements, data acquisition systems, real time control systems.

Experience with the technologies and methods necessary for building effective and robust web applications that support vital transactional processes and workflows.

Experience leading and developing a diverse team with skills and experience.
5+ years’ MS Office Applications experience – Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Share Point Experience  discerning and defining use cases and the applicable user interfaces through careful process inquiry and analysis. Selecting and assembling user interfaces for robust transactional inputs and workflows.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong familiarity or background applying coding languages / technologies – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, Java, SQL.Having a good understanding or direct experience defining or using data structures: various models including relational schemas as well as semi-structured; e.g. JSON data.

Experience with these technologies are helpful:
Git/Git Hub, Google Cloud Platform, Miro, Jira, API Design, Authentication and Security models/methods, MS Power BI, MS Power Apps, Mobile App  this position...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.

The most successful candidate will:

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…