Manufacturing LAN Planning and Delivery Manager

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves, and build a better world—together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Do you believe reliable, secure, and resilient network connectivity is essential to building the vehicles of the future? We do! Ford’s manufacturing operations depend on high-performing wired and wireless network services to connect people, equipment, automation, applications, and digital tools across the plant floor. That’s where Enterprise Technology makes an impact. We enable the technology foundations that support safe, efficient, and uninterrupted manufacturing operations around the world.

We are seeking an experienced Manufacturing LAN Planning and Delivery Manager to lead the planning, governance, and coordinated delivery of wired and wireless LAN services for Ford manufacturing plants. In this role, you will translate plant programs, operational requirements, and technology needs into executable network plans that support production milestones without compromising safety, security, quality, or service continuity.

This role requires strong leadership, technical network knowledge, operational discipline, and the ability to coordinate across Manufacturing, Plant IT, Facilities, Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, Network Operations, construction trades, and external suppliers. You will lead a portfolio spanning plant modernization, new-model and capacity programs, technology refresh, plant-floor MDF and IDF readiness, high-density wireless, outdoor and yard connectivity, and critical manufacturing use cases that depend on the network.

Responsibilities include end-to-end network planning and readiness, portfolio governance, supplier and financial management, risk mitigation, delivery coordination, and continuous improvement. By combining technical expertise with strong program leadership, you will help ensure Ford manufacturing sites have the network capacity, resiliency, coverage, security, and operational readiness required to support current and future production needs.

We recognize that no one person will embody every single quality or skill listed below. If you are passionate about infrastructure delivery, manufacturing technology, operational resilience, and leading complex cross-functional programs, we encourage you to apply.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor of Engineering preferred.
• Equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

Experience:

• Minimum of 2–3 years of network engineering and network deployment experience, including planning, implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and operational handoff of wired and wireless network infrastructure.
• Minimum of 2–3 years of experience working within manufacturing facilities, industrial environments, plants, warehouses, or other production-critical operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure planning, network delivery, manufacturing IT, technical program management, or a comparable complex technical portfolio.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives across Manufacturing, Facilities, construction trades, Plant IT, Cybersecurity, Architecture, Network Operations, engineering teams, and external suppliers.
• Experience managing multiple high-priority initiatives in production-sensitive or operationally critical environments.
• Experience with supplier management, scope control, financial tracking, resource planning, statements of work, and purchase-order processes.
• Experience managing technical risks, dependencies, timelines, readiness reviews, escalations, and stakeholder communications.
• Strong leadership, organizational, financial, project-management, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and build trusted relationships across business, technology, and operational organizations.

Required Technical Experience:

• Strong working knowledge of enterprise wired LAN and wireless LAN planning and delivery.
• Understanding of switching, routing fundamentals, IP services, network segmentation, VLANs, DHCP, network access control, monitoring, and change-management practices.
• Experience planning or supporting wired and wireless network infrastructure, including MDFs, IDFs, fiber and copper connectivity, switching, wireless access points, power, space, and environmental requirements.
• Experience supporting high-availability, production-critical network environments where service interruptions can affect safety, quality, production, or business continuity.
• Ability to evaluate and communicate network capacity, coverage, resiliency, security, monitoring, and operational-support requirements.
• Experience coordinating wireless planning activities, including coverage surveys, capacity planning, roaming, interference mitigation, outdoor connectivity, and device-growth planning.
• Ability to translate complex technical dependencies and constraints into clear business impacts, milestones, risks, and decisions.
• Experience with network change planning, validation, rollback readiness, operational turnover, and production-impact assessments.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience supporting automotive, industrial, or advanced-manufacturing plants and new-model, capacity-expansion, or facility-launch programs.
• Experience with software-defined networking, high-density industrial Wi-Fi, network access control, network automation, and observability platforms.
• Experience supporting outdoor, yard, warehouse, logistics, or large-scale industrial wireless connectivity.
• Familiarity with manufacturing applications, industrial endpoints, connected assets, automation technologies, and plant-floor operational technology environments.
• Relevant technical or project certifications, such as Cisco, wireless networking, ITIL, PMP, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using data, dashboards, reporting, or automation to improve infrastructure-planning efficiency, operational visibility, and delivery outcomes.
• Experience working within a global, matrixed enterprise technology organization.

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, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary 

This position is a salary grade LL6. 

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800.

*Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this role*

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