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What it does: Ford Australia is an automotive company whose core business includes designing, manufacturing, marketing, financing and servicing a full line of Ford SUVs, cars, trucks, electrified vehicles, and Lincoln luxury vehicles.

Mission: To design vehicles that help people move more safely, confidently, and freely

Size and presence: It has more than 2,500 employees.

Best known for Ford is best known for its innovation in the car industry: invented the famous Model T car, and was the first auto manufacturer to automate production with an assembly line

The good bits: Learning new things and the latest technologies, a great product to work with

The not-so-good bits: It takes a long time for contract workers to be permanent employees 

The Story of Ford Australia

Ford Motor Company of Australia Pty Limited is a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, a global automotive company based in Dearborn, Michigan. It has about 187,000 employees and 62 plants worldwide.

Ford Australia was founded in 1925 in Geelong, Victoria. It designs, engineers, and imports best-selling SUVs, trucks, and cars. Some of its products are Escape, Everest, Puma, Focus, Ranger, Ranger Raptor, Fiesta ST, Mustang, Mustang Mach 1, and Transit commercial vans.

Between 2016-2020, Ford Motor Company invested more than $2.5 billion in research and development in Australia, and more than $500 million in Australian operations in 2021. That is why Australia is a key product development hub for Ford.

After 2017, Ford Australia was the largest automotive employer in the country. It has a team with more than 2,500 designers, engineers, automotive, technical, and other specialists working at several locations across Victoria: Richmond, Broadmeadows, Geelong, Lara and interstate sales offices. These engineers and designers in Australia lead the development of vehicles that are sold in more than 180 markets around the world.

Culture & vibe

If you have a passion for innovation, this is a good place to start your career. Technology is transforming life in the cities, and the company is seeking innovative minds and ideas to work in their productive workplace.

The workplace culture is very focused on Health and Safety, and the managers improve the workplace by encouraging knowledge sharing and better communication between different functional departments.

A typical day at the company involves both routine tasks and one’s own development of processes. It has a fast-paced and collaborative team culture with good team-building initiatives. You can get exposure to complex tasks on a daily basis.

Depending on your role, you may also have the opportunity to travel for work, on regional or global projects. The company also offers flexible working hours, as long as the subscribed work is completed. Even before the pandemic, there is already an option to work from home.

Recruitment process

To join the Ford team, you can apply through the Career page on their website which currently displays the following vacant roles: Finance and accounting, Marketing Sales and services, and Product Development-Engineering.

For fresh graduates, they also organize a Professional Development Program that provides the foundation to build your career and gives you the experience to work with team members around the world.

The Ford Australia Graduate Program includes a real job with real responsibilities, exposure to work assignments and projects, training courses and e-learning modules, job rotation opportunities to enhance your business acumen, regular coaching feedback, personalized development plans, mentoring programs, opportunities to network with senior leaders, and community engagement activities.

Career prospects

Ford encourages individual growth on the job. Learning at work is available 24/7 to provide employees with a progressive and professional environment to work in. 

Benefits

Ford Motor Company offers several options for pension and welfare benefits for their employees:

  • Health & Insurance Benefits: vision, health, and dental insurance; supplemental unemployment; accidental death & dismemberment insurance; life insurance; temporary disability insurance; long-term disability insurance
  • Retirement & Financial Benefits: profit sharing, superannuation, defined benefit pension plan, defined contribution pension plan
  • Vehicle loan or purchase scheme (staff discounts on new cars for Ford vehicles)

Social Contributions

Ford Australia supports Henry Ford’s vision to develop innovative programs to advance Community Life, Education and Safe Driving. Some of their social activities are:

  • Partnership with the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF): Ford’s global commitment of more than 12 years is helping NBCF work towards their goal of zero deaths from breast cancer by 2030
  • Provides funding to support the Artificial Pancreas Project of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), which is exploring how to automate insulin pumps and deliver improved therapies for type 1 diabetes (T1D).
  • Driving Skills for Life (launched in 2015): brings comprehensive driver training to Australian teenagers from top professional driving instructors.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page

  • ford.com.au
  • investopedia.com
  • indeed.com
  • seek.com
  • glassdoor.com
  • payscale.com

Jobs & Opportunities

Locations With Jobs & Opportunities
  • Melbourne (Campbellfield/Richmond), Geelong and Lara - Victoria.
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