# Product Development Engineer - Front and Rear End Systems

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600 - $166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We're looking for a Product Development Engineer to join our team. As a Product Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, validating, and releasing parts for assigned programs. This includes leading early development and system feasibility with studio and program management teams. You will also be responsible for continuous design efficiency, ensuring that parts meet corporate, local, and global regulatory requirements, and are manufactured and assembled efficiently.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, validate, and release parts for assigned programs

- Lead early development and system feasibility with studio and program management teams

- Ensure continuous design efficiency

- Meet corporate, local, and global regulatory requirements

- Manufacture and assemble parts efficiently

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or a related field

- 3+ years of experience in development of automotive body exterior systems in an engineering role

- Experience with studio interface of Class "A" Parts

- CAD experience with TCE/CATIA/3DX. Parametric modeling experience preferred

- Knowledge of craftsmanship expectations, and benchmarking

- Knowledge of Exterior Systems and packaging requirements

- Demonstrated ability to lead team to resolve complex packaging issues

- English proficiency; fluid speaker with ability to negotiate and lead small team

- Technical communication skills (Presentations & Negotiations)

- Meeting/time management (Recurrence, Agenda, expected outcomes, time management, minutes)

- Microsoft Office Tools proficiency (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point)

- Knowledge of exterior systems commodity manufacturing processes

Preferred qualifications include Lean Six Sigma Green or Black belt, self-motivated with Continuous Improvement Mindset, and creative thinker capable of developing solutions.

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- electrical engineering
- electronics engineering
- CAD experience
- parametric modeling
- craftsmanship expectations
- benchmarking
- exterior systems
- packaging requirements
- meeting/time management
- Microsoft Office Tools

### Nice to have
- Lean Six Sigma Green or Black belt
- self-motivated with Continuous Improvement Mindset
- creative thinker capable of developing solutions