Powertrain Manufacturing Engineer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles the world expects from us. Within our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. That means we’re continually seeking diligent, determined performers who think outside the box to help us find better and more efficient ways to manufacture our vehicles.

Responsibilities

As a Powertrain Manufacturing Engineer, you will:

• Choose supplier partners to simultaneously engineer efficient, effective systems.
• Interrogate supplier designs.
• Maintain timeline and budget compliance.
• Drive equipment verification plans and capability during supplier runoff phase.
• Ensure safe delivery, install, stand up at plant on time.
• Support PTRs and Rate of Climb to achieve rate, scrap, and other targets.
• Collaborate with Product Development for Design for Manufacturing.
• Collaborate with Purchasing to develop and challenge supplier partners to deliver faster and cheaper overtime.
• Collaborate with Operations to stand up the manufacturing system with safety, quality, at rate, on time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• 2 years of experience with each of the following skills:

1. Evaluate long-term tooling performance to engineer next-generation tooling enhancements, through comprehensive CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) studies.
2. Strong working knowledge of PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) and Failure Mode Avoidance (FMA) principles.
3. Fostering a collaborative culture across diverse teams (Product Development, Plant Operations, and Suppliers) to ensure seamless program execution.
4. Utilize Siemens, Teamcenter, Autodesk, Inventor, CATIA, or Solidworks to calculate volume and density for molding material optimization and molding tooling design optimization.

• 1 year of experience with each of the following skills:

1. Leverage Six Sigma methodologies to identify and mitigate systemic issues within the manufacturing process using statistical approaches.
2. Optimize manufacturing line efficiency by identifying process improvement opportunities through multi-source data analytics in Microsoft Power BI or other database software tools.
3. Enhance assembly quality by standardizing rotor transfer molding equipment configurations, calibration protocols, and monitoring systems.
4. Orchestrate new model launches, providing on-site plant support to ensure a seamless transition from design to full-scale production.
5. Collaborate with external partners (Machine Builders, Vision System Integrators, and Robotics vendors) to implement advanced automation and process solutions.
6. Drive manufacturing excellence for electrified powertrain rotors, leveraging enterprise data reporting systems.
7. Apply core engineering systems including Standardized Machine Acceptance (MIDAS), corporate engineering standards and awareness of GPDS powertrain deliverables.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.