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At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.
- Job Type: Full time
- Work Type: Hybrid
Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!
Join us in shaping the future of Ford Motor Company, as part of a global organization with exceptional colleagues in world-class facilities. As part of Ford Design, you’ll be at the cutting edge of Ford’s most strategically critical work, designing people and society’s needs into the heart of our next generation of products, services, and experiences.
In this position...
The EDS Design and Release Supervisor leads the team in delivering wiring systems that meet quality, cost, weight, functional, and timing objectives and are successfully integrated into the vehicle system. The supervisor manages design trade-offs, maintains a customer-focused mindset, and supports corporate objectives. As the business owner for electrical wiring, the supervisor is accountable for the subsystem’s overall performance and delivery.
What you'll do...
Tasks/Responsibilities
- Ensure the team meets program objectives for Quality, Cost, Weight, Function, and Timing, including current-model objectives and Six Sigma strategies.
- Cascade, manage, and optimize program targets; assess technical trade-offs among competing objectives and report risks and opportunities to the Program team at designated milestones.
- Ensure adherence to quality-improvement and design-development practices, including FMEA, DVPR, quality history, prevention of recurrence, SDS, design guides, test procedures, and robust design verification and validation.
- Ensure product designs satisfy functional and customer requirements, and support closure of systemic issues related to EDS function.
- Lead resolution of wiring issues using applicable systems and processes (e.g., DEMS and JIRA).
- Lead EDS sign-off for program milestones, including UNVx, UPVx, FDJ, TDJ, PEC, and FEC.
- Drive subsystem and component design, release, and validation to meet production tooling and vehicle launch timing.
- Facilitate effective engineering and cross-functional decisions through Functional and VHM meetings; support Program meetings with current status and feasibility assessments.
- Follow the ED&T approval process to maintain program timing.
- Maintain PDL and BOM accuracy for all wire harness releases and oversee program-specific systems such as FEDEBOM and Integrator.
- Support EDS-related JIRA/AIMS, WERS, and OTG processes; communicate upcoming program milestone events.
- Review and approve proposed supplier-initiated changes (SREAs), ensuring applicable PPAP requirements are met.
Process
- Manage the team budget and EDS ED&T to deliver FSS and in-house design programs.
- Assign and align team objectives with the organization’s strategic priorities.
- Coordinate technical forums to advance team and organizational objectives.
- Enforce product-creation discipline through effective design, reliability, and robustness reviews, with emphasis on robust design verification.
- Consistently apply the problem-solving and root cause analysis tools demonstrated in the BoK training, while ensuring the team understands and adheres to these practices.
- Support GPDS supplier engagement to achieve cost and quality objectives, deliver engineering requirements, and ensure launch and industrialization readiness.
People
- Establish and uphold the team’s technical standards, ensuring engineers meet them.
- Provide training, mentoring, and ongoing development to strengthen the team’s technical knowledge and capability.
- Lead, guide, support, and teach team members to promote professional and technical growth.
You'll have...
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of automotive Electrical Distribution System (EDS) and/or wire-harness design experience.
- Experience supporting at least one full vehicle program launch through production, including design development, validation, release, manufacturing readiness, or launch support.
- 3+ years of direct experience with wire-harness or electrical-distribution-system design and release activities, such as component design, engineering release, change management, BOM ownership, validation, or issue resolution.
- Demonstrated experience in at least two of the following areas:
- Vehicle manufacturing or assembly support
- Product testing or design validation
- Vehicle launch support
- Supplier quality, engineering, or change-management activities
- 5+ years of experience leading technical work across internal engineering teams, manufacturing, program teams, and/or suppliers.
- Experience using structured problem-solving methods to identify root cause, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrence of technical or quality issues.
- Experience leading technical work across suppliers and internal cross-functional partners.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple engineering deliverables simultaneously, including tracking timing, identifying risks, resolving issues, and escalating concerns to appropriate stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, training, or providing technical direction to other engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to present technical status, risks, trade-offs, and recommended actions to cross-functional and leadership audiences.
Even better, you may have...
- Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Previous experience as a people manager, engineering supervisor, technical lead, or work-package lead within an automotive engineering environment.
- Experience working within Ford vehicle-program development processes, including familiarity with:
- Global Product Development System (GPDS)
- Worldwide Engineering Release System (WERS)
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Supplier engagement, engineering change, and launch-readiness processes
- Familiarity with Ford engineering systems and tools, including Teamcenter Engineering, 3DX, FEDEBOM, JIRA, AIMS, Digital Buck, and CATIA or comparable 3D design and data-management tools.
- Experience applying automotive quality and design-development methods, including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design Verification Plan and Report (DVPR), root-cause analysis, quality-history reviews, and robust design verification practices.
- Experience leading or coordinating work performed by external suppliers, engineering service providers, or outsourced product-development teams.
- Experience supporting supplier-led design, validation, industrialization, engineering changes, and launch activities for automotive electrical-distribution or wire-harness systems.
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
- 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
- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day
This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6
Visa sponsorship is 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.
This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #VehicleHardwareEngineering #LI-KD1
Overview
At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.
- Job Type: Full time
- Work Type: Hybrid
Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!
Join us in shaping the future of Ford Motor Company, as part of a global organization with exceptional colleagues in world-class facilities. As part of Ford Design, you’ll be at the cutting edge of Ford’s most strategically critical work, designing people and society’s needs into the heart of our next generation of products, services, and experiences.
In this position...
The EDS Design and Release Supervisor leads the team in delivering wiring systems that meet quality, cost, weight, functional, and timing objectives and are successfully integrated into the vehicle system. The supervisor manages design trade-offs, maintains a customer-focused mindset, and supports corporate objectives. As the business owner for electrical wiring, the supervisor is accountable for the subsystem’s overall performance and delivery.
What you'll do...
Tasks/Responsibilities
- Ensure the team meets program objectives for Quality, Cost, Weight, Function, and Timing, including current-model objectives and Six Sigma strategies.
- Cascade, manage, and optimize program targets; assess technical trade-offs among competing objectives and report risks and opportunities to the Program team at designated milestones.
- Ensure adherence to quality-improvement and design-development practices, including FMEA, DVPR, quality history, prevention of recurrence, SDS, design guides, test procedures, and robust design verification and validation.
- Ensure product designs satisfy functional and customer requirements, and support closure of systemic issues related to EDS function.
- Lead resolution of wiring issues using applicable systems and processes (e.g., DEMS and JIRA).
- Lead EDS sign-off for program milestones, including UNVx, UPVx, FDJ, TDJ, PEC, and FEC.
- Drive subsystem and component design, release, and validation to meet production tooling and vehicle launch timing.
- Facilitate effective engineering and cross-functional decisions through Functional and VHM meetings; support Program meetings with current status and feasibility assessments.
- Follow the ED&T approval process to maintain program timing.
- Maintain PDL and BOM accuracy for all wire harness releases and oversee program-specific systems such as FEDEBOM and Integrator.
- Support EDS-related JIRA/AIMS, WERS, and OTG processes; communicate upcoming program milestone events.
- Review and approve proposed supplier-initiated changes (SREAs), ensuring applicable PPAP requirements are met.
Process
- Manage the team budget and EDS ED&T to deliver FSS and in-house design programs.
- Assign and align team objectives with the organization’s strategic priorities.
- Coordinate technical forums to advance team and organizational objectives.
- Enforce product-creation discipline through effective design, reliability, and robustness reviews, with emphasis on robust design verification.
- Consistently apply the problem-solving and root cause analysis tools demonstrated in the BoK training, while ensuring the team understands and adheres to these practices.
- Support GPDS supplier engagement to achieve cost and quality objectives, deliver engineering requirements, and ensure launch and industrialization readiness.
People
- Establish and uphold the team’s technical standards, ensuring engineers meet them.
- Provide training, mentoring, and ongoing development to strengthen the team’s technical knowledge and capability.
- Lead, guide, support, and teach team members to promote professional and technical growth.
You'll have...
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of automotive Electrical Distribution System (EDS) and/or wire-harness design experience.
- Experience supporting at least one full vehicle program launch through production, including design development, validation, release, manufacturing readiness, or launch support.
- 3+ years of direct experience with wire-harness or electrical-distribution-system design and release activities, such as component design, engineering release, change management, BOM ownership, validation, or issue resolution.
- Demonstrated experience in at least two of the following areas:
- Vehicle manufacturing or assembly support
- Product testing or design validation
- Vehicle launch support
- Supplier quality, engineering, or change-management activities
- 5+ years of experience leading technical work across internal engineering teams, manufacturing, program teams, and/or suppliers.
- Experience using structured problem-solving methods to identify root cause, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrence of technical or quality issues.
- Experience leading technical work across suppliers and internal cross-functional partners.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple engineering deliverables simultaneously, including tracking timing, identifying risks, resolving issues, and escalating concerns to appropriate stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, training, or providing technical direction to other engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to present technical status, risks, trade-offs, and recommended actions to cross-functional and leadership audiences.
Even better, you may have...
- Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Previous experience as a people manager, engineering supervisor, technical lead, or work-package lead within an automotive engineering environment.
- Experience working within Ford vehicle-program development processes, including familiarity with:
- Global Product Development System (GPDS)
- Worldwide Engineering Release System (WERS)
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Supplier engagement, engineering change, and launch-readiness processes
- Familiarity with Ford engineering systems and tools, including Teamcenter Engineering, 3DX, FEDEBOM, JIRA, AIMS, Digital Buck, and CATIA or comparable 3D design and data-management tools.
- Experience applying automotive quality and design-development methods, including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design Verification Plan and Report (DVPR), root-cause analysis, quality-history reviews, and robust design verification practices.
- Experience leading or coordinating work performed by external suppliers, engineering service providers, or outsourced product-development teams.
- Experience supporting supplier-led design, validation, industrialization, engineering changes, and launch activities for automotive electrical-distribution or wire-harness systems.
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
- 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
- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day
This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6
Visa sponsorship is 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.
This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #VehicleHardwareEngineering #LI-KD1
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Align your degree with operations management
Distribution Supervisor roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations when tied to a bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, industrial engineering, or business operations. Frame your credentials around the degree-to-role connection before applying.
Search verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Target employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history in distribution and logistics operations. Migrate Mate surfaces these employers by role and location, so you're applying to companies that have already filed for this occupation.
Check prevailing wage tiers before negotiating
Your employer must certify your offered wage meets DOL prevailing wage levels for your worksite ZIP code. Run your SOC code and location through the OFLC Wage Search before salary discussions to know the Level I through Level IV range.
Confirm each worksite gets its own LCA
If you'll supervise distribution operations across multiple facilities, your employer must file a separate certified LCA for each worksite location. Raise this early in the offer process so USCIS petition timing isn't delayed by missing LCA certifications.
Document degree-level duties in your job description
USCIS scrutinizes Distribution Supervisor petitions for specialty occupation evidence. Work with your employer to ensure the offer letter and I-129 supporting documentation explicitly ties supervisory duties to systems analysis, demand forecasting, or process engineering rather than general floor oversight.
Use O*NET to anchor your specialty occupation argument
O*NET lists the knowledge domains and task complexity for logistics supervisory roles. Reference the O*NET occupation profile when preparing your specialty occupation evidence package to show that the position routinely requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field.
H-1B Visa Distribution Supervisor: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Distribution Supervisor role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Not automatically. The role qualifies only when the employer structures it around degree-level duties such as supply chain optimization, inventory systems analysis, or logistics process engineering, and requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field like supply chain management or industrial engineering. General warehouse or floor supervision without that degree requirement does not meet USCIS's specialty occupation standard.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Distribution Supervisor positions?
Sponsoring employers are typically large-scale logistics operators, e-commerce fulfillment companies, and manufacturers with complex distribution networks that justify degree-level oversight roles. Migrate Mate lists employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history in distribution and operations, so you can target companies that have already navigated the sponsorship process for this occupation.
What happens if my Distribution Supervisor role requires work at multiple warehouse locations?
Each worksite requires its own DOL-certified Labor Condition Application. If your role involves supervising operations across several distribution centers, your employer must file separate LCAs for each location before USCIS will approve the I-129 petition for those sites. Confirm your employer understands this requirement before you accept an offer.
How long does H-1B status last for a Distribution Supervisor job?
H-1B status is initially granted for up to three years and can be extended for an additional three years, reaching a six-year maximum under standard rules. Extensions beyond six years are possible only if your employer has filed an immigrant visa petition or labor certification that has been pending for at least a year.
What documentation strengthens an H-1B petition for a Distribution Supervisor role?
USCIS looks for evidence that the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field. Strong petitions include a detailed job description tying duties to degree-level competencies, your official transcripts showing a directly related major, and industry evidence from sources like O*NET demonstrating that similar roles across the sector require comparable educational credentials.