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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 credentials to specialty occupation standards
Electrical Supervisor roles qualify as H-1B specialty occupations when grounded in electrical engineering or a related degree field. Pull the O*NET profile for your SOC code to confirm the degree-level task language your employer will need to match in the LCA and I-129.
Target employers with multi-site LCA filing history
Utilities and industrial contractors running crews across multiple worksites must file a separate certified LCA for each location. Search Migrate Mate to identify employers whose DOL filing history shows active H-1B sponsorship specifically for supervisory electrical roles.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for Electrical Supervisor at the correct experience tier in your work county. Run the OFLC Wage Search yourself before negotiations so you know whether the offered rate clears the Level I, II, or III threshold.
Confirm union shop rules affect your petition timing
Unionized electrical worksites sometimes require collective bargaining review before an employer can commit to H-1B sponsorship. Ask hiring managers whether the site operates under a union agreement and whether that affects the LCA posting or I-129 filing timeline.
Request premium processing if your project start date is fixed
Construction and infrastructure projects often have hard mobilization dates. Ask your employer to file Form I-907 for premium processing so USCIS adjudicates the I-129 within 15 business days, reducing the risk of a delayed start that affects the project schedule.
Document your supervisory scope in the job description
USCIS scrutinizes whether a supervisor role genuinely requires a bachelor's degree. Work with your employer to draft the job description around degree-dependent duties like load calculations, code compliance review, and design coordination rather than purely hands-on trade tasks.
H-1B Visa Electrical Supervisor: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Electrical Supervisor role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
It depends on how the position is structured, not the job title alone. When employers frame the role around degree-level responsibilities such as electrical system design review, NEC code analysis, or engineering-driven project coordination, USCIS is more likely to approve it as a specialty occupation requiring at least a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a closely related field. Roles centered primarily on hands-on trade supervision without degree-dependent duties do not automatically qualify.
How does the LCA requirement work for Electrical Supervisors who move between project sites?
Every worksite where you perform H-1B duties for more than a short-term period requires its own certified Labor Condition Application. If your employer assigns you to a new construction site or facility not covered by the original LCA, they must file and receive DOL certification for that location before you begin work there. Short-term placements under 60 workdays per year in a given location may qualify for a limited exception under DOL rules.
Which types of employers most commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Electrical Supervisors?
Electrical Supervisor H-1B sponsors tend to be utilities, large industrial contractors, semiconductor fabrication facilities, data center developers, and engineering firms managing capital infrastructure projects. These employers typically have established H-1B filing programs and structure supervisory roles around engineering degree requirements. You can browse verified H-1B sponsoring employers in this category on Migrate Mate using its DOL Labor Condition Application data.
Can my H-1B status be transferred if I change employers mid-project?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can begin working for a new sponsoring employer as soon as they file a new I-129 petition on your behalf, provided you are currently in valid H-1B status and the petition is filed before your current status expires. The new employer must file a fresh LCA covering your new worksite and pay the DOL prevailing wage for that location.
How long does H-1B sponsorship last for an Electrical Supervisor position?
USCIS grants H-1B status in increments of up to three years, with one extension available for a total of six years. Beyond six years, continued H-1B extensions are only available if you have an approved I-140 immigrant petition or a pending PERM labor certification that meets specific timing thresholds under AC21 provisions. Your employer must remain your active sponsor throughout this period.