Ford Motor Company · 23 hours ago
Seating Technical Program Manager
Long Beach, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expFord Motor Company is committed to delivering a fully electric transportation future through its Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team. The role involves driving engineering teams to resolve design issues, maintaining supplier relationships, and ensuring integration and collaboration across various engineering functions.
AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesManufacturingTransportation
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
5+ years of technical program management, in an engineering setting involving hardware development
Detailed knowledge of product development process from design, development, validation and integration
Knowledge of the materials, processes & technologies used to deliver Interior engineering content
Proven experience driving progress on multiple projects across multiple locations and timelines
Preferred
Experience with Microsoft Office, Confluence, and Jira applications
Strong written and verbal communication skills
An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team
A system approach with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement
Benefits
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.
Company
Ford Motor Company
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Funding
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$16.23BKey Investors
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2025-07-29Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2023-08-17Post Ipo Debt· $4B
2023-06-22Debt Financing· $9.2B
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James Farley
Chief Executive Officer
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COO
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