Staff Design Industrialization Engineer - Display and Camera

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a Staff Design Industrialization Engineer - Display and Camera to work on delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with engineering and supply chain teams, as well as external suppliers, to ensure alignment on requirements and provide critical feedback on part designs.

Responsibilities:

• Own processes, communication, and documentation during transition to high volume production
• Develop correct specs for successful RFQ's using reliability goals and FMEA's
• Evaluate supplier capabilities using Product DFM & Process DFM tools
• Define supplier quality goals during DFM negotiations and prototype phases for pre-production activities
• Ensure 100% DFM prior sourcing for new complex technologies
• Conduct supplier visits to ensure accuracy of information
• Support design team in generating and checking 2-D drawings and component specifications
• Define internal specification development procedures
• Perform design for manufacturing review of components and systems
• Validate quoted costs vs. reality of production, and eliminate supplier waste for optimized cost
• Help define and drive program schedule based on supplier lead-times
• Ensure engineering design work and supplier milestones are met
• Directly contribute to hiring and building out of engineering and quality teams

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• 8+ years of experience in automotive or related high volume manufacturing field
• Proficiency in CATIA
• Experience with PPAP, Lean Six Sigma, and Minitab
• Strong engineering and quality skills to support supplier process and quality negotiations
• Previous experience as a design and quality engineer
• Ability to provide feedback on supplier processes to ensure manufacturability and cost optimization
• Ability to hire and recruit engineering and supply chain team member
• Leading people, assertiveness and collaboration with Multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in supplier quality management and production management
• Familiarity with GD&T and DFM
• Understanding of QMS and SPC

Benefits:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, 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
• 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