# Product Development Engineer - Exterior Structural Castings

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**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

At Ford Motor Company, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life.

As a Product Development Engineer - Exterior Structural Castings, you will be part of the Structural Castings team responsible for delivering casting solutions for Ford’s Global programs. You will have a unique opportunity to influence Ford’s growth in the casting space, being involved in exciting new casting technology like Rheocasting and Thixomolding.

## Responsibilities

- Create casting designs to integrate multiple parts into one casting.

- Develop business cases for proposed casting solutions for management’s consideration.

- Provide direction on design or process changes needed to optimize the casting process for maximum quality and cost efficiency.

- Support technical documentation including lessons learned, best practices, design rules, design requirements and keep them updated in the Ford internal system.

- Work with cross functional teams for vehicle packaging compliance and issue resolution.

- Support less experienced engineers in CAD, tooling design and on-site casting quality assessment for prototype part buy-off, including suggestions on how to improve the casting at a process or tooling level.

- Support external suppliers and tool shops with process and tooling verification prior to production startup.

## Qualifications

- Minimum Requirements:

- Bachelor's or higher-level degree in Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering or a related field.

- 4 years of casting design experience.

- Ability to design solids in CAD (Catia, NX or 3DX).

- Ability to interpret simulation results (Magmasoft, Flow 3D, Procast, etc) and improve the casting design based on those.

- Strong analytical and organizational skills and ability to manage several projects at the same time in a highly variable and uncertain environment.

- Strong communication skills, both written and oral.

- Microsoft Office experience.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more.

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments 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.

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

## Salary

This position is a salary grade 7 - 8 and ranges from $86,600-$166,200.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Materials Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- CAD design
- Simulation results interpretation

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