Prominent among Ford management changes announced on Tuesday is the retirement of design chief J Mays after more than 33 years in the automotive industry.
He will be replaced on 1 January by Moray Callum.
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Mays had 16 years at Ford and headed teams that developed the design for the Fusion, Focus, Fiesta, Taurus, Mustang and F-150. He also was responsible for several significant concept vehicles.
“The bold and sophisticated design language that J Mays pioneered will be visible for years to come in Ford vehicles and the auto industry overall,” said COO Mark Fields.
Moray Callum currently heads design for The Americas. He will report to Raj Nair, global product development head. Callum also headed Mazda design from 2001 to 2006 when based in Japan.
Tetreault has headed North America manufacturing with more than 30 manufacturing plants for five years. He previously headed Europe manufacturing for three years.
Hettle, currently head of global vehicle operations manufacturing engineering, will take over all of North America manufacturing. Among other roles, he was once plant manager for Wayne Stamping and Assembly and Edison Assembly.
Mulloy, labour affairs head, will be succeeded by Bill Dirksen. Mulloy was appointed to his current position in 2005.
Dirksen has been executive director, US labor affairs, since 2007 and has worked on the personnel side of credit, manufacturing and quality, and Australia operations.
Ford also named Brazil unit chief Steven Armstrong as a company officer and president of Ford South America.
Armstrong was previously chief operating officer at Volvo Cars and has also held posts at Jaguar and Ford Europe.
