Description
As a Launch Manufacturing Engineer at Ford Motor Company, you'll provide manufacturing engineering leadership throughout new-model launches in the Vehicle Operations and Manufacturing Planning (VOME) team. You'll help implement tooling, processes, control plans, and documentation, while supporting and improving the performance of existing plant equipment.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver Manufacturing Quality Operating System requirements for Vehicle Systems.
- Collaborate with Product Development to develop facility and tooling cost estimates, improve quality, and reduce labor requirements.
- Use virtual tools to evaluate the manufacturability of new-model designs for assembly operations, ensuring product designs meet FAE standard manufacturing requirements.
- Evaluate Significant and Critical Characteristics identified by Product Engineers and develop Failure Mode Avoidance plans and documentation for new-model programs.
- Create, modify, and maintain process sheets, and provide updated cycle-line layouts as manufacturing processes develop.
- Lead the identification, resolution, and closure of Final Assembly Engineering (FAE) feasibility issues.
- Review lessons learned from new-model launches and implement actions to prevent recurrence in future programs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Program Implementation Teams, Product Development, Supplier Technical Assistance, Material Planning & Logistics, and New Model Programs.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field, a foreign-equivalent degree, or an equivalent combination or relevant experience.
- At least 1 year of experience in automotive manufacturing engineering.
- At least 1 year of experience with automotive assembly tooling, processes, and facilities.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working at a manufacturing site or in vehicle operations.
- Familiarity with error-proofing.
- Strong project management skills and a results-oriented mindset.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Demonstrated 3D CAD review skills using Teamcenter, VisMockup, CATIA, or equivalent tools.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- An understanding of PFMEA and failure mode avoidance principles.
- Experience with Ford systems such as FEDE, WERS, GSPAS/APT, Teamcenter, Python, E2KS/Auros, and CPARS/Aurora.
- The ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- A record of working independently with minimal direct supervision.
- Flexibility to support launch deliverables.
- Experience using DMAIC principles to solve problems.
- Willingness to travel up to 50%.
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