# Technical Specialist - Chassis Systems Reliability Verification and Validation **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/69985?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_47f74456-73c ## Description We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. At Ford, the Vehicle Hardware Engineering teams are using Design Thinking & User Experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that will delight our customers. Our employees are laser-focused on bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. From autonomy and electrification to smart mobility technologies, our teams around the world are working together with excitement to make smart vehicles for a smart world. This is a Technical Expert (LL6) position leading global suspension system reliability and verification methods. ## Responsibilities - Suspension System reliability demonstration. - Ensure best in world quality from initial vehicle quality through high time in service. - Ensure aligned cascade of Reliability and Confidence statistical objectives for the 90th percentile use case with classification of end items aspects as Durable Core or Replaceable. - Ensure aligned cascade of targets for reliability of suspension end items – vehicle to system to end item to end item functions. - Ensure proper accounting of suspension function and performance within customer operating conditions and environments / noise factors using the system RCL and aligning with end item RCL’s. - Expert in creating and executing vehicle, system, and lab testing that exercise applicable noise factors and potential failure modes to demonstrate targeted Reliability and Confidence. - Hands on development, test, and data acquisition skills with ability to reduce and analyze data to support Test Method development and root cause analysis. - Use of warranty analysis, management fleet information, government inspection data, supplier part sales, social media, etc to confirm coverage of our design verification test methods. - Ensure connection of our physical test methods to our design inputs and CAE verification methods. - Drive key stress factors into specifications and test methods to eliminate HTIS failures collaborating with TE/SME Specification owners. - Champion change point analysis for re-used or modified end items and ensure correct level of requirements and checks are planned as part of the program. - Work with customer correlation and system technical specialists to align system durability verification methods for each application including a formalized engagement of connected vehicle data, vehicle platform engineering and Ford Business divisions like Ford Pro. - Lead on suspension diagnostics and prognostics. - Integral to Signoff of System/Subsystem/Component with specific signoff responsibility BEFORE Chief Signoff - Coach, Mentor, & Train Suspension D&R engineers across all the global regions - Go-To for System Problem Solving – Launch, Recall, Quality / Field Issues, DV/PV Issues ## Qualifications - BS-Engineering required - 10 years of experience in chassis systems and architecture development. - Extensive system and component engineering design & release experience, knowledge of various chassis architecture performance characteristics, and experience with vehicle, system, and component durability validation methods. - Extensive experience creating and managing DFMEA/PFMEA/SCCAF/Control Plans/ drawings-GD&T - Experience with problem solving tools – 8D, 5 why, Six Sigma, etc. - Experience analyzing output from CAE and physical test methods – vehicle, system, and component. - Working knowledge and familiarity with six sigma tools – - Required leadership skills - quality focused as #1 priority, innovative, excellent communicator, strong organizational skills, highly motivated self starter ## 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 - Design Thinking - User Experience - Reliability and Confidence statistical objectives - DFMEA/PFMEA/SCCAF/Control Plans - problem solving tools - Six Sigma - CAE and physical test methods - leadership skills ### Nice to have - MS-Engineering - Six Sigma Green Belt Certification - complex task handling - challenging situation handling - senior leader communication - project management skills - coaching and mentoring skills --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/69985?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)