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.