Jobs at Ford Energy

Drives battery manufacturing improvements in yield, scrap, quality, and throughput using AI and analytics. Builds and deploys models for coating and formation quality, defect detection, and root-cause analysis. Converts model insights into process changes, error-proofing, and standard work while integrating MES, historian, PLC, OT, and metrology data. Collaborates with operators, technicians, process engineers, controls teams, quality teams, vendors, and central technologists to scale reusable solutions across plants.

Build and maintain automated testing frameworks for SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud using Tricentis Tosca. Plan regression and upgrade testing, manage defects, establish quality standards, track testing metrics, support UAT, and provide release go/no-go recommendations. Collaborate with SAP functional and technical teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to ensure reliable releases across frequent cloud upgrade cycles.

Executes design and process verification testing for battery cells, including performance, life, environmental, and reliability characterization. Operates cell test equipment, analyzes internal and supplier data, diagnoses failures through teardown and root-cause analysis, and supports production validation builds. Maintains test traceability and technical reports while collaborating with design, quality, BMS, pack integration, and supplier teams. Supports evaluation of emerging chemistries such as LFP and sodium-ion for future battery energy storage systems.

Program, troubleshoot, and optimize PLCs, HMIs, servo systems, drives, robots, and automated manufacturing equipment for battery energy storage production. Lead root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, preventive maintenance, equipment launches, controls modifications, and automation backups. Collaborate with IT and manufacturing engineering, train technicians, support Six Sigma initiatives, monitor automation metrics, and help develop controls architecture for a new BESS manufacturing facility.

Leads global cybersecurity operations across enterprise IT, cloud, customer-facing applications, connected platforms, and manufacturing OT. Manages internal teams and MSSP partners, oversees 24/7 monitoring, incident response, detection engineering, threat hunting, compliance, metrics, and executive reporting. Serves as incident commander for major events and collaborates with application, product, plant operations, and ICS teams to improve security visibility and response.

Leads supplier onboarding, portal, labeling, EDI, and SAP BTP integration delivery for an SAP S/4HANA implementation. Coordinates business, IT, suppliers, logistics providers, customs brokers, and implementation partners; manages requirements, milestones, risks, testing, dependencies, cutover, readiness, and post-go-live support. The role requires strong cross-functional coordination, supplier communication, issue resolution, and execution discipline without direct authority.

Lead end-to-end SAP data migration and master data governance across public and private cloud environments supporting EWM and Yard Logistics. Responsibilities include migration planning, data cleansing, mapping, transformation, loading, validation, reconciliation, cutover coordination, defect resolution, quality controls, business sign-off, and readiness reporting. The role collaborates with business data owners, SAP teams, system integrators, and vendors to establish accurate, governed, and sustainable master data processes.

Leads multi-cloud infrastructure engineering and operations across Azure, GCP, and SAP S/4HANA environments. Owns cloud modernization, automation, FinOps, reliability, disaster recovery, monitoring, patching, security, incident management, vendor relationships, and operational governance for mission-critical energy and manufacturing systems. Manages internal teams, managed service providers, and global vendors while ensuring high availability, cost optimization, compliance, and resilience.

Lead Failure Mode Avoidance activities across design, systems, and manufacturing engineering teams. Facilitate DFMEA and PFMEA workshops, identify and eliminate potential failure modes, link quality and engineering documentation, influence architecture decisions, and train engineers on FMA methodology. The role uses MBSE tools and supports battery systems, power electronics, manufacturing, supplier, testing, and customer activities.

Provides hands-on support and maintenance for site IT infrastructure, servers, networks, endpoints, applications, and manufacturing systems. Responsibilities include incident response, troubleshooting, planned maintenance, system upgrades, disaster recovery, cybersecurity remediation, documentation, and infrastructure readiness. The role supports production, warehouse, laboratory, utility, office, and remote operating areas, collaborates with plant teams and vendors, and may require off-hours, weekend, and holiday support.

Build and deploy custom software solving operational problems at the intersection of engineering, business, customers, physical assets, and data. Responsibilities span full-stack development, Go services, GCP infrastructure, AI/ML, API integrations, IoT and edge workflows, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and production delivery. Engineers work directly with stakeholders to define ambiguous problems, architect solutions, and own outcomes end to end. This onsite/hybrid role requires strong communication, autonomy, systems architecture, and production engineering experience.

Provides employee relations guidance, performance-management coaching, HR inquiry resolution, compliance support, timekeeping and payroll assistance, HRIS data integrity, workforce analytics, and process improvement for manufacturing operations. Partners with HRBPs, payroll, recruiting, and operational leaders to resolve employee issues, support workforce planning, maintain labor-law compliance, and develop scalable HR procedures. The role requires strong communication, discretion, Excel and HRIS proficiency, and practical knowledge of Kentucky and federal employment regulations.

Designs, builds, tests, deploys, and supports digital applications for plant-floor operations. The role integrates applications with MES, IIoT, ERP, SCADA, PLC, and enterprise systems; develops data pipelines, APIs, semantic models, dashboards, and workflows; and maintains data quality and documentation. The specialist gathers stakeholder requirements, selects appropriate development platforms, supports cybersecurity standards, troubleshoots production systems, conducts root-cause analysis, and helps train teams while scaling digital improvements across manufacturing operations.

Leads enterprise SAP S/4HANA transformation delivery across multiple workstreams, including program governance, PMO execution, risk and dependency management, systems integrator oversight, testing, cutover, hypercare, and transition to steady-state operations. Optimizes manufacturing, procurement, finance, and supply chain processes; establishes master data governance; manages change adoption; and partners with executives, business leaders, technology teams, and vendors to deliver strategic outcomes.

Leads Ford Energy’s direct procurement department for BESS components, including procurement strategy, category roadmaps, supplier partnerships, commercial governance, cost reduction, negotiations, risk mitigation, supplier industrialization, and continuity. Manages procurement leaders and sourcing professionals, establishes operating standards and budgets, oversees complex supplier agreements, and advises executives on commercial and supply chain decisions. Requires extensive direct procurement experience, people leadership, relevant manufacturing or energy industry experience, and 25% travel.

Build and deploy software connecting factory equipment, sensors, MES, quality systems, warehouse systems, edge platforms, and cloud services. Design industrial data flows using MQTT, OPC UA, and IIoT architectures; develop manufacturing analytics for OEE, throughput, downtime, quality, scrap, and traceability; and apply AI/ML to operational problems. Embed with plant teams, troubleshoot production systems, and own secure delivery across application, cloud, edge, data, integrations, and production support.

Coordinates corporate systems and business platform initiatives across a matrixed organization. Defines scope, stakeholders, plans, timelines, and success criteria for ambiguous projects; drives meetings, risks, dependencies, decisions, and action items to closure. Maintains RAID logs, steering committee materials, status updates, and portfolio reporting while supporting executive follow-through and governance processes. Requires enterprise systems fluency, strong communication, and the ability to influence without direct authority.

Design and optimize high-volume BESS production systems at a greenfield manufacturing site. Responsibilities include line balancing, labor standards, workstation layouts, cycle-time analysis, ergonomics, lean manufacturing, throughput improvement, KPI tracking, Kaizen events, cost reduction, and engineering change management. The role mentors production teams and collaborates with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Operations during startup and production ramp-up.

Own the AI roadmap for battery manufacturing, identifying, benchmarking, piloting, and scaling use cases that improve yield, quality, cost, and launch speed. Build proofs of concept and reference architectures for process optimization, defect vision, yield genealogy, and predictive maintenance. Establish reusable data, labeling, and model standards; evaluate vendors; guide engineering teams; align with IT and OT on security and scalability; and apply generative and agentic AI to plant workflows.

Authors and maintains system, subsystem, and component-level engineering requirements and validation test methods for battery energy storage systems. Decomposes customer and regulatory requirements, defines measurable acceptance criteria, and supports integrated quality, certification, failure-mode avoidance, and factory acceptance testing. Collaborates across engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers, with occasional work in high-voltage environments and travel for testing and related activities.