Engineering Specialist - Quality/Process
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Job overview
The Engineering Specialist will own quality and manufacturing-process capability within the Assembly department. The role focuses on improving processes, resolving quality issues, supporting launch readiness, auditing processes, reducing variability, and addressing throughput constraints. It also manages statistical process control and supplier process compatibility. A high school diploma and manufacturing/technology engineering work experience are listed; an engineering or technology bachelor’s degree is preferred.
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Full job description
As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we're known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You'll get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love.
In this position...
Own the Quality and the capability of the manufacturing processes within the Assembly department
What you'll do...
•Apply engineering principles & analytical techniques to drive continuous improvement to manufacturing processes
•Lead development of interim and permanent corrective actions to resolve quality issues using 8D methodology and structured problem-solving tools
•Play an integral part in the Launch process by establishing and monitoring quality target levels at the workstation level for each build phase to validate workstations readiness
•Conduct process audits to ensure process adheres to Vehicle Operations guidelines and specific process standards
•Act as team leader in resolving assembly related concerns. Lead variability reduction and lean manufacturing initiatives and best practices.
•Support ISO 14001 compliance and support internal ISO auditing and compliance as required
•Lead development of solutions for throughput constraints
•Manage and direct statistical process control activities
•Review internal/external suppliers for critical characteristic process compatibility
•Support efficiency planning to ensure workstation are properly set up with quality risks identified and addressed
You'll have...
•Education: High School Diploma
•Manufacturing/Technology engineering work experience
•Previous automotive and quality analysis experience
•Previous production supervision
Required Skills/Capabilities
•8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving
•Lean Tools – 5S, Kanban, Poka-yoke, and Value Stream Mapping
•TQM and Kaizen Methods
•Visual Factory Management
•Microsoft Office proficiency (Word/Excel/Outlook)
Required Behaviors
•Outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills
•Proven critical thinker and troubleshooter to deliver industry leading quality
•Highly committed to process improvement and innovative solutions with a customer-first mindset
•Strong curiosity and passionate about continuous learning
•Demonstrates inclusion and values diversity
•Perseveres through setbacks and disappointments to drive results
Even better, you may have...
•Bachelors degree in Engineering / Technology preferred
•FMEA, PPAP, and DOE experience preferred
•Six Sigma: DMAIC and DMADV (DFSS) Project Methodology experience preferred
•Ergonomic analysis knowledge and experience preferred
•Six Sigma Green Belt certified 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:
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Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
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Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
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Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
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Tuition assistance
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Established and active employee resource groups
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Paid time off for individual and team community service
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A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
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Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:
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 committed to a culturally diverse workforce. 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.
At Ford, the health and safety of our employees is our top priority. Vaccination has been proven to play a critical role in combating COVID-19. As a result, Ford has made the decision to require U.S. salaried employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless employees require an accommodation for religious or medical reasons. Being fully vaccinated means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination or an approved medical or religious exemption.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,399 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$97–143K/yr3,091 salary ranges
- US median$39–46/hr326 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 62 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs in Missouri and 5,399 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Missouri
- The Boeing Company10 open
- Honeywell5 open
- Actalent4 open
- Experience
- Manufacturing Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (4,281 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 3,188 of the 5,399 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs (59%) ask for a high school diploma 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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