STA Engineer - PTO Resident
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Job overview
The STA Engineer - PTO Resident leads supplier quality improvement and containment efforts, addressing warranty concerns, stop shipments, and recurring supplier process failures. The role coordinates with supplier, plant, and Site STA teams; supports quality reviews and reporting; and drives root-cause analysis and corrective-action activities. Ford seeks a candidate with a bachelor's degree in science or engineering, or equivalent technical or manufacturing aptitude, and at least two years of plant manufacturing experience.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
In this position...
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Lead Critical Supplier Process to drive Supplier Quality Reject (QR) performance improvement.
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Participate in Whiteboard reviews and assigned sub-system PRT (Powertrain Variability Reduction Team) meetings. Drive resolution of external supplier process -3MIS, 1MIS, and 0MIS warranty concerns.
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Support QR procedures by supporting concern binning, reviewing threshold QRs, and providing support for QR Dispute resolution. Assist the Incoming Quality (IQ) department with non-responsive suppliers. Assist suppliers and plants in QR/PPM (Parts Per Million) data accuracy.
What you'll do...
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Coordinate part quality confirmation process for suppliers with repetitive containment failure.
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Lead containment of special-cause supplier process -1MIS and 0MIS SIMPSN (Single Issue Management & Problem-Solving Nexus) & BSAQ (Balanced Single Agenda for Quality) projects.
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Drive root cause analysis activities with select critical to quality suppliers.
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Align with PRT on Supplier Process (SP) SIMPSN & BSAQ issues for Glidepath values.
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Provide early notification to and engage the STA Site team on potential Stop Shipments related to supplier process (SP).
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Provide support in containing supplier Stop Ship issues. Assist Site STA team with vehicle On-Hold and Release process tracking.
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Work with Stop Ship stakeholders to support accurate root cause for Prevent Action Closure (PAC) process reporting.
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Monitor daily production report (DPR) and provide notification to STA management for issues that require Site STA team awareness/intervention.
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Act as supplier representative and liaison between STA and manufacturing plant management. Support Daily Plant Quality Meetings (PIC Room) to report on containment of Supplier Process warranty issues, participate in PRT forums, lead supplier preparation for PQRs (Powertrain Quality Review).
You'll have...
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Bachelor of Science / Engineering, or equivalent technical / manufacturing aptitude
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2+ years of Plant Manufacturing experience
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Ability to develop and present materials to senior leadership with short timelines
Even better, you may have...
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Experience leading multiple complex assignments with demanding timelines
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Knowledge of problem-solving tools
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Knowledge of manufacturing processes
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Quality experience
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Strong communication and team building
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?
How this job compares
Set against the 623 open Supplier Quality Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$100–156K/yr392 salary ranges
- US median$40–45/hr23 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 10 open Supplier Quality Engineer jobs in South Carolina and 623 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Ford Motor Company (this employer)50 open
- RTX Corporation25 open
- Meta20 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Supplier Quality Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (538 postings).
- Education
- 328 of the 623 open Supplier Quality Engineer jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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