Senior Technical Program Manager - Interiors

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.

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You'll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...

As a Technical Program Manager, you'll use your technical expertise to wholistically drive complex problems to completion. You'll work amongst the team to scope work, plan requirements, identify risks, estimate budgets, and clearly communicate ongoing progress. You will be working on a small high performing team that will have a high interaction and collaboration quotient to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle interior systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to deliver the ambitious project scope. Engineering trade-offs are minimized by the development of solutions and innovations to minimize settling for an inferior product or solution. This team will be highly technical in nature and will come from engineering and data centric team environments that have had to deliver the holistic end to end engineering life cycle from ideation through design, engineering, test and ensuring efficient industrialization. This environment is not for everyone but will enrich the best talent with the opportunity to perform some of the best work of their careers.

As a Technical Program Manager, you'll use your technical expertise to wholistically drive complex problems to completion. You'll work amongst the team to scope work, plan requirements, identify risks, estimate budgets, and clearly communicate ongoing progress. You will be working on a small high performing team that will have a high interaction and collaboration quotient to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle interior systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to deliver the ambitious project scope.

What you'll do...

• Drive engineering teams towards containment and resolution of issues raised from design reviews, virtual builds, and build events to protect the program's schedule to start of production (SOP) and ongoing production
• Maintain supplier relationships in collaboration with Supply Chain team to ensure timely deliveries for build events
• Monitor work outputs and deliverables for potential systems and vehicle incompatibilities and opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration.
• Ensure problems are transparent and risks are identified and proactively ensure that risk mitigating actions are ongoing within relevant engineering teams
• Set agenda for key decisions to be made at each meeting to eliminate bottlenecks and retire risks
• Support key decisions working cross-functionally across engineering, finance, and strategy to reach the right conclusions
• Travel up to 15% of the time.

What you'll do...

• Drive engineering teams towards containment and resolution of issues raised from design reviews, virtual builds, and build events to protect the program's schedule to start of production (SOP) and ongoing production
• Maintain supplier relationships in collaboration with Supply Chain team to ensure timely deliveries for build events
• Monitor work outputs and deliverables for potential systems and vehicle incompatibilities and opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration.
• Ensure problems are transparent and risks are identified and proactively ensure that risk mitigating actions are ongoing within relevant engineering teams
• Set agenda for key decisions to be made at each meeting to eliminate bottlenecks and retire risks
• Support key decisions working cross-functionally across engineering, finance, and strategy to reach the right conclusions
• Travel up to 15% of the time.