Manufacturing LAN Planning and Delivery Manager

🔥 12 hours ago

🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $132.8k - $250.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👔 Manager

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Ford Motor Company

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 Description

• Own the Manufacturing LAN planning portfolio and establish priorities across new programs, plant expansions, modernization, technology refresh, and operational risk-reduction initiatives • Lead and develop LAN planners while coordinating with network engineering, wireless, cellular, cybersecurity, network operations, regional technology teams, and suppliers • Create plans, milestones, dependency and risk tracking, escalation paths, and executive reporting • Manage supplier performance, resource capacity, statements of work, purchase orders, financial tracking, and planning deliverables • Facilitate governance and planning forums to align initiatives with manufacturing and enterprise technology objectives • Direct site assessments, requirements discovery, architecture reviews, site documentation, bills of materials, implementation planning, change requests, trade coordination, and project handoff • Ensure MDF and IDF readiness, fiber and copper pathways, switching, wireless access points, power, space, environmental requirements, and operational prerequisites • Coordinate network readiness with construction schedules, production milestones, launch timing, plant access, labor availability, and operational constraints • Define installation and wireless coverage acceptance criteria, validation, documentation updates, asset records, and operational turnover • Provide leadership during plant launches, major cutovers, technology refreshes, and production-sensitive network changes • Partner with Manufacturing, Plant IT, Engineering, and Operations on connectivity for plant-floor applications and connected assets • Plan network solutions for manufacturing equipment, material movement systems, vehicles, mobile devices, industrial endpoints, automation technologies, and emerging digital capabilities • Coordinate indoor, outdoor, yard, and complex-area wireless requirements, including coverage maps, surveys, capacity, roaming, interference analysis, and device-growth forecasts • Align technical designs with enterprise standards, security policies, and manufacturing operational requirements • Review network changes for manufacturing risk, production impact, rollback readiness, validation, operational ownership, and recovery planning • Use incident, change, inventory, monitoring, capacity, and site-readiness data to prioritize remediation • Support troubleshooting, critical-issue response, production recovery, and lessons learned • Improve planning standards, templates, automation, documentation quality, delivery consistency, risk management, supplier performance, and operational handoff processes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline • Equivalent relevant experience may be considered • 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 • 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 • 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 • Visa sponsorship is not provided • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• 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