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Ford Pro is a new global business within Ford committed to commercial customer productivity. Ford Pro delivers a work-ready suite of vehicles, products, and services for virtually every vocation, backed by technology and engineered for uptime. A true one-stop shop, offering a full portfolio of electrified and internal combustion vehicles designed to integrate seamlessly with the Ford Pro ecosystem, helping customers' businesses thrive today and into the new era of electrification.

You’ll be part of a growing organization on a mission to create a one-stop shop to help our customers increase uptime and productivity, while reducing complexity and cost of ownership. When you join the Ford Pro team discover all the benefits, rewards and development opportunities you’d expect from a diverse global leader. You’ll become part of a team that is already leading the way, with ingenious solutions and attainable products - and it is always ready to go further.

We’re looking for talented individuals to join the Charging team and play an integral role in delivering new business models, experiences, and capabilities. As a Charging Operations Lead (Deployment), you will support our implementation of Ford Pro depot charging solutions.

• Building and managing -project teams that will be responsible for on the ground delivery – E2E delivery of charging infrastructure starting with site assessment to depot go live – commissioning and onboarding the chargers to Ford Pro back-end to handing over to After Sales Team – the role starts as individual contributor and build the team as the pipeline of projects grows

• Working closely with European partners L1 turn-key provider to establish processes and delivery framework

• Working closely with a diverse set of teams within our charging organization. Both locally as well as on a European level

• Managing subcontractors to ensure the infrastructure is delivered on time and budget

• Define a clear programme of works and reporting metrics that should be reported by L1 contractor on the roll-out progress

• Verify the hardware and work orders quotation ensuring the competitive pricing and enough resource to deliver projects

• Establishing relationships with third parties in the Markets that can support and speed up the infrastructure roll-out as well as offer commercially competitive services to a designated contractor

• Review and optimise existing contract structures, defining and implementing renegotiation

• strategies as required

• Working closely with Commercial Solutions Team providing necessary support and inputs to customers technical queries

• Working closely with product managers to ensure that we develop relevant solutions for depot customers

• Generalist Engineer with a specialization in public works, electrical engineering or electronics

• 2+ years of experience with deployment of EV charging solutions and/or battery energy solutions

Our preferred requirements:

• Proven experience in E-Mobility installation (safety management, civil & electrical cable works, transformer substation, etc…)

• Passion for vehicle electrification

• Capacity to launch a Tender/RFQ and select the best suppliers (hardware, installers)

• Strong Project Management Skills and Program delivery experience

• Effective verbal and written communicator

• Relationship builder, collaborator

• Comfort in working in ambiguous situations

• Experience with goal setting and deliverables tracking

• Ability to present complex problems and recommendations

• Ability to collaborate in a diverse, cross-functional environment

• Ability to work on “white space” projects

Additional information:

This role is field based and therefore the successful candidate will be required to travel as and when required. We are a global team and candidates will need to be fluent in Dutch and proficient in English. Please submit your CV in English.

Ford is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of gender, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion/belief, gender reassignment and gender identity, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Requisition ID : 5820