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In this position...
The Kentucky Truck FCSD PVT Resident is located in the Kentucky Truck Assembly Plant PVT Office and reports to the FCSD PVT Manager. Primary responsibilities include proactively identifying service risks on the plant vehicle line(s) during Launch / L-TIS and working urgently to enable Dealer capability to fix vehicles right the first time without Ford assistance. Position will be full time onsite in plant environment. Position will have opportunities to travel to support product investigations as necessary.
You'll have...
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor of Science in Automotive Technology (or equivalent) required 3+ Years - Automotive Service technical experience required Strong verbal communication, technical writing, and presentation skills are a must Dealer Employment experience (fixed operations) desired Knowledge of Product Development process and structure desired Capacity to effectively manage multiple tasks
Even better, if you have …
Preferred
Proficiency with Ford Databases (GCQIS, WERS, MMP, GSAR, TWAS) required FCSD field experience desired Adapt quickly to supporting ad-hoc projects
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 childcare 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 7 - 8.
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What you'll do…
Identify product Quality concerns during Launch and L-TIS that present a risk to customer satisfaction, unnecessary warranty expense, vehicle off-road, and RAV. Pre-launch proactively review cases in JIRA / Automated Issues Management (AIMS) and evaluate concern severity, risk of concern being present in the field, and current Dealer capability to diagnose and repair service risks identified. Investigate Masked codes approved by the enterprise and communicate to dealers as needed. Spearhead preemptive service repair readiness actions by coordinating Parts & Software availability, publishing awareness messages and TSBs. Be the face of FCSD to the PVT. Become immersed with other PVT residents, engineers, and New Model Launch Teams. Represent FCSD in EWRT’s, CCPAT’s, Hard Rocks, meetings, etc. Monitor Onsite Modification programs (OSM) and Plant Stop Ship/Builds to identify potential service risks and proactively coordinate service readiness and/or communications to Dealers. Support Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) Early Concern Binning (ECB) reviews to identify service concern trends sooner. Support FCSD PVT Manager to execute the Early Dealer Feedback process following major launches. Represent FCSD at CCPAT/EWRT (Rapid Hub) with GCQIS / Service data. Ensure detections and other service pain points are managed on CCPAT Tracker. Utilize GCQIS Concern Management to manage and track service concerns identified. Work with Design for Service counterparts to develop relationships and processes for hand-off after key milestones (e.g., <LR>, other) Liaise with Core CIDR Team to develop relationships and strategically / efficiently hand-off after LTIS / Launches (e.g., 90 / 120 / 180 days post-OKTB). Leverage Emerging Concern and QSF processes to accelerate service solutions with key stakeholders. Ensure hard rocks and concerns that require leadership assistance are smartly escalated to the FCSD PVT Manager. Utilize and develop proficiencies in data systems such as but not limited to: AIMS, QED, BSAQ, JIRA, GSAR, GCQIS and test fleet data to identify potential service risks.