Description

Job Description

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

To ensure a safe manufacturing environment, our Occupational Health and Safety Engineering team plays a crucial role in hazard prevention, conducting safety audits, providing training, and implementing risk mitigation strategies.

In this position...

At Ford Motor Company, we are dedicated to designing, manufacturing and selling high quality vehicles that meet the diverse needs of our customers. We believe our employees and the different perspectives that they bring to the business are the driving force behind our success. The person selected for the Powertrain and Battery Manufacturing Engineering (PTME/BME) Safety Engineer position will need to have the following qualifications at a minimum with the understanding the job responsibilities can change.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

• Perform tooling/machine and facility safety design reviews and buy offs for launches.

• Review/lead cross functional teams to perform risk assessments.

• Work with vendors/contractors on; Risk Assessment, Pre-Task Analysis (PTA), Workstation Readiness, Energy Control and Power Lockout (ECPL) Placarding reviews, etc.

• Communicate safety lessons learned between Manufacturing Engineering, Plant Safety and submit these into standards and specifications for application into new programs.

• Interpret, clarify and communicate requirements of international standards.

• Represent PTME/BME in a variety of safety forums as needed including construction safety council, manufacturing safety council, engineering alignment meetings, joint communication meetings with the UAW National Ford Department.

• Subject matter expert for machine guarding and control systems to meet regulatory and Ford Machine Guarding Standards.

• Complete plant floor buy-offs utilizing the Ford progressive tagging system (PROTAG).

• Work with PTME/BME Engineers and Plant safety to ensure the PTME/BME Organization and Tooling vendors are following the Safety Buyoff Procedure.

• Follow procedures set out in the Ford Global Standards, conduct design reviews and sign-off material handling equipment for safety and ergonomics.

• Engage and communicate the proactive safety process to the PTME/BME engineering community.

• Drive construction safety processes during all PTME/BME launches.

• Use of the tools governed by the Manufacturing Engineering safety procedures and standards, including but not limited to; Risk Assessment, Pre-Task Analysis, Workstation Readiness and ECPL Placarding.

• Support PTME/BME Safety team in global safety process, training, development and administration.

• Assist/Lead program safety launches including demo, construction and commissioning.

• Conduct 100% design and build reviews and sign off per the Ford safety and engineering standards.

• Engage and communicate the proactive safety process to the PTME/BME engineering community.

• Support PTME/BME functional areas with safety issues when they come up at plants that may not be launch related.

• Work with contractors to help teach & coach during launch activities.

• Participate in standard reviews and be able to find standards and communicate them to the customer to solve problems

• Work with PTME/BME Controls teams to ensure compliance to company standards.

• Flexible for travel to local or out of state and out of state/country up to 30% of the time

Qualifications

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree in Occupation Health and Safety, Engineering or similar (Required)
• 3+ years manufacturing safety experience
• Ability to actively participate, lead teams, teach and coach, and drive consensus in multi-disciplinary groups setting with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Even better, you may have...

• Experience with machine safety and risk assessment techniques using Hierarchy of Controls (Preferred)
• Global regulatory/standard knowledge (both internal (Ford Motor Company) and external e.g. ISO Standards) (Preferred)

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8.

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BENEFITS

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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