Why Ford Otosan?
At Ford Otosan, we offer a strong career platform for our employees. We support all our colleagues in developing their talents on the way of development.
Global Vision and Rotation: As Ford Otosan, founded in 1959 with the partnership of Ford Motor Company and Koç Holding, we offer our colleagues the opportunity to work as expatriates in many Ford companies such as Ford Europe, Ford America, Ford Russia, Ford China. Likewise, in different regions within Ford Motor Company, our colleagues are assigned to our company on a short or long term basis. As a company operating in a wide geography from Europe to America, we both offer career opportunities abroad and create the opportunity to work together with employees from different countries and cultures.
Innovation and Technology: On the way to innovation, we lead projects that shape the automotive industry with our R&D center, which is the largest Technology and R&D Hub in the Turkish automotive sector. As Ford Otosan, which has achieved significant milestones such as the first private R&D center in the automotive industry, the first domestic diesel engine production, and the first domestic car production, we place great importance on initiatives that prioritize innovation and creativity within the company. We eagerly embrace unexplored ways ahead and encourage our colleagues in this regard.
Image and Prestige: As one of Turkey's largest industrial organizations, we offer our colleagues the opportunity to work in a large, global and reliable company on the way to development, life and success. With Ford's quality-oriented production approach, we aim to offer the highest quality products and services to our customers. On the way to innovation, we give our engineers the opportunity to produce quality and reliable products as well as the world's leading technologies. As Ford Otosan, which has achieved great success since 1959 with the partnership of Koç Group and Ford Motor Company, we work diligently every day to provide our current and potential colleagues with the opportunity to work in a well-established, reliable and prestigious company.
Career Opportunities:
- Career Mobility: At Ford Otosan, Career Mobility is our talent management tool that supports the mindset of business agility, used to enhance internal agility and synergy. With our agile working approach, regardless of our role, we are all leaders of our own work, process, and career. In line with this approach, while aiming to reach "The Best Version of Ourselves" on the way of development, we shape our career journey with three different options:
- Deepening in Our Role: We aim to deepen in our role by gaining more in-depth knowledge and skills in our current areas of expertise.
- Diversifying Our Role: We expand the boundaries of our current role by taking on new responsibilities, enriching our skills, experiences, and competencies.
- Changing Our Role: We make a fresh start to our career journey with a completely new role.
We also diversify our career mobility with different locations, teams and business processes. Our companions discover their potential on the way to development through domestic and international opportunities at Ford Otosan, continuously improve their skills and competencies, learn from each other and the best to realize better ones, and move towards the goal of reaching the best version of themselves with a sense of purpose. Our companions draw their own routes on the way to development and put their signature on the way of their journey.
We prepare an annual development plan for each employee in terms of individual and technical development, and we organize internal and external trainings, online trainings and certificate programs within the scope of these development plans. We also support our colleagues to participate in master's degree programs of contracted universities on the way to development.