Regional Quality Director

Job ID: 70181
Location: Dearborn, Michigan
Category: Manufacturing

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Job Type: Full time
Work Type: On-site

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As Regional Quality Director, you serve as the operational quality leader across the region’s entire six-plant footprint. You are responsible for operationalizing and executing the regional quality strategy, driving daily and weekly quality performance, and maintaining cross-plant discipline across millions of vehicles annually.

Working in close alignment with executive quality leadership, you own operational execution, cross-plant synchronization, tactical problem-solving, and shop-floor quality rigor across the region. You ensure that all six plants execute "The Ford Way" uniformly, respond as a unified network to quality threats, and achieve target performance across First Run Capability (FRC), Rolling Throughput Yield (RTY), and Global Quality Research System (GQRS) metrics.

You Will...

Lead immediate cross-plant "Read Across" containment when quality or supplier failures occur at any facility, including maintaining restart verification checks for the idle site.

KPI Operational Cadence: Own the daily/weekly "Regional Quality Bowler" rhythm across all six plants, driving root-cause resolution for FRC, RTY, and GQRS performance gaps.

Digital & Predictive Quality Deployment: Direct the shop-floor execution of AI vision systems, IoT torque tools, IPQD, EOL AI, and FTT dashboards in coordination with Mfg. IT and GDIA.

Error Proofing & Bypass Governance: Enforce strict operational monitoring of Error Proofing (EP) and process bypass modes, ensuring immediate containment and GDIA compliance.

Standardization & "The Ford Way": Enforce 100% compliance with "The Ford Way," SC/CC standards, and control plans across all lines, systematically eliminating unauthorized plant-specific workarounds.

Cross-Plant Best Practice Sharing: Facilitate structured "Lessons Learned" sharing across all six plants to ensure solutions engineered at one site are rapidly scaled across the region.

Gemba & Floor Leadership: Maintain an intensive Gemba cadence across all sites, working directly with plant teams to remove operational barriers to quality.

Warranty & Field Quality Execution: Direct the weekly operational "Warranty War Room" for 0–36 MIS truck warranty, partnering with PVT and engineering teams on design-for-manufacturing fixes.

Launch & Restart Synchronization: Operationalize the Integrated Launch Rhythm across facilities to ensure launch learnings are hard coded into future plans and idle plant restart protocols remain active.

Regulatory & Triage Support: Lead technical floor support during field investigations and NHTSA inquiries and serve as the operational lead for the CCRG Triage Team and VQR customer concerns (e.g., transmission contamination, window bounce back, e-coat boil-out).

You'll Have...

Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Automotive) or a related technical/STEM discipline.

10+ years of progressive leadership experience in automotive manufacturing, vehicle operations, or quality management.

Travel: Ability to travel up to 40–50% across the six regional plant facilities.

Leadership & Execution: Demonstrated track record of driving cross-functional problem solving across Engineering, Supply Chain, and Plant Operations in a complex, unionized manufacturing environment.

What you'll receive in return…

As part of the Ford family, you’ll enjoy excellent compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation, and much more. You’ll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition.

Our benefits summary can be found here:

2026-New-Hire-Benefit-Summary-LL4.pdf

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 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.

This position is a leadership level 4.
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. 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.

Onsite work of up to four days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Onsite #LI-MB3

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From day one, Ford invests in you with medical benefits built to help you plan for what’s next. You’ll also get support for you and your family that meets you at every step, so you can move forward with confidence.

Health and Wellness

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, mental health, and unique wellness perks keep you and your family supported every step of the way.
Financial and Retirement Programs

Build a strong financial future with robust retirement contributions, savings programs, and free personalized financial planning tools.
Flexible Vacation and Holidays

Enjoy your time away from work with generous vacation, holidays, and flexible family leave designed to help you balance life and work with ease.
Vehicle Discount Program

The best thing about building great products is driving them! The second-best thing: sharing your discount with family and friends so they can drive them, too.
Family Growth and Support

Grow your family confidently with fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance, paid parental leave, and a supportive new-parent ramp-up program.
Additional Programs

Enjoy unexpected extras like pet insurance, legal services, identity protection, and access to convenient health and wellness services.

Ford gives me the space to innovate, to lead, and to serve — all while staying true to who I am as an engineer, educator, and parent. It’s not just a career; it’s a community that drives change.

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Flexible Vacation and Holidays

Vehicle Discount Program

Family Growth and Support

Additional Programs

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