# Product Development Engineer-Chassis Architecture

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,100-$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.

As a member of the advanced chassis engineering team, you are responsible for the up-front system design work and decision-making inputs on all-new Ford & Lincoln products, including next-gen electrified architectures.

The D&R Engineer is responsible for managing product release CAD and BOM structures, including assembly positioning and mass attribute analysis.

## Responsibilities

- Develop, maintain, and track comprehensive program timing plans for advanced chassis architecture initiatives, ensuring alignment with overall vehicle program milestones and gateways.

- Proactively identify potential timing risks and implement mitigation strategies to keep programs on schedule.

- Lead cross-functional timing reviews, communicating status, issues, and recovery plans to relevant stakeholders and senior management.

- Drive adherence to program timing within the chassis engineering team.

- Manage and monitor the financial aspects of advanced chassis programs, including material cost, investment, and tracking against established targets.

- Collaborate with purchasing, finance, and engineering teams to identify cost reduction opportunities and ensure cost-efficient design and manufacturing solutions.

- Prepare and present regular financial reports, forecasts, and variance analyses to program leadership, highlighting risks and opportunities.

- Facilitate trade-off discussions to balance weight, cost, performance, and requirements within the chassis system.

- Serve as the primary chassis representative and support technical discussions in cross-functional vehicle architectural development forums, ensuring chassis requirements, constraints, and opportunities are effectively communicated and integrated.

- Develop and deliver clear, concise, and compelling presentations to various audiences, including engineering teams, program leadership, and executive management.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science, mechanical engineering preferred.

- 2+ years of chassis experience in an automotive or related domain.

- 1+ years of CAD experience.

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- CAD
- chassis engineering
- mechanical engineering

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in engineering or science
- business or business management

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