# Ford Racing Powertrain Quality Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Allen Park, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**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

Racing is where Ford's story began. In 1901, Henry Ford climbed into a car he built himself,"Sweepstakes",and beat America's most famous driver. That fighting spirit lives on in **Ford Racing** today.

The Powertrain Quality Engineer drives error elimination for Ford Racing's Sports Car Powertrains, conducting timely failure analysis on field and development issues to support Ford Racing's Sports Car Mission through fast, effective resolution.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead, manage, and support the failure analysis and overall topic management to ensure departmental and program objectives for internal and external customers.

- Work with minimal direction while maintaining a high level of accountability and accuracy.

- Lead and execute incoming inspection activities on incoming parts and assemblies.

- Partner with Engineering and Quality to establish, review, and continuously improve incoming inspection criteria, measurement methods, and sampling strategies.

- Develop and refine component testing methodologies in collaboration with powertrain subject matter experts.

- Create, maintain, and update documentation related to laboratory testing, analysis processes, and operational procedures.

- Track and measure Failure Analysis performance through key performance indicators (KPIs).

- Assist the Programs’ technical support teams with solutions for intermediate containment actions.

- Inspect and perform functional testing on powertrain components to accurately determine failure modes.

- Investigate root causes of failures to include report generation.

- Utilize Ford's ticketing and quality management systems to document, track, and manage issues.

- Develop, document, and continuously improve departmental processes and procedures.

- Communicate work-plan and project results to customers and management via written reports, meetings, and presentations.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering.

- Minimum 2 years of experience in powertrain development and testing.

- Minimum 2 years of experience applying quality tools and methods.

**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.

## Skills

### Required
- combustion-engine operation
- non-destructive testing (NDT)
- GD&T
- metallurgical analysis
- Supplier Quality Management
- FMEA
- SPC
- MSA
- Control Plans
- APQP/PPAP processes

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in a technical field of study
- Direct expertise in motorsports or a high-performance racing environment
- Former engine design experience
- Prior engine assembly and build experience
- Working with CATIA, WinDarab, CAN and Ethernet Protocols, Cosworth Pi and MoTec Software, Minitab or similar

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