Lead Engineering Technician | Vehicle

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future.

The Lead Engineering Technician is responsible for performing vehicle instrumentation, test setup, and test execution alongside a team of technicians.

Responsibilities

• Perform vehicle and subsystem instrumentation, data acquisition system setup, test preparation, troubleshooting, and test support alongside the technician team.
• Lead daily activities by assigning and prioritizing work based on test schedules, vehicle availability, Engineering needs, and established program priorities.
• Partner directly with Engineering to understand test objectives, instrumentation requirements, timing, and expected deliverables.
• Install, configure, validate, troubleshoot, and remove sensors, instrumentation wiring, data loggers, and related test equipment.
• Configure DAQ and verify sensors, data acquisition channels, and vehicle-network signals to ensure accurate and reliable test data.
• Prepare and support vehicles for vehicle dynamics, braking, handling, durability, thermal, NVH, road, and proving-ground testing.
• Participate in hands-on test execution, including pre-test inspections, system checks, system troubleshooting, and teardown.
• Verify sensor operation, calibration status, signal quality, and vehicle configuration, before releasing vehicles for testing.
• Troubleshoot instrumentation and data-quality issues in partnership with Engineering.
• Provide technicians with technical instruction while working alongside them to resolve complex installations, test setups, and system issues.
• Review completed work and maintain accurate documentation on instrumentation records, calibration information, channel lists, issues, and deviations.
• Communicate vehicle readiness, work status, test findings, risks, and blockers to Engineering and management.
• Track assignments, test requests, issues, and deliverables using Jira and other Atlassian tools.
• Identify tooling, equipment, material, vehicle, or workspace constraints and escalate them to management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Proficiency in vehicle instrumentation, sensors, data acquisition, vehicle networks, and test support.
• Ability to lead while contributing to the work, setting priorities, guiding technicians, and maintaining accountability.
• Ability to translate engineering requirements, drawings, schematics, and procedures into executable work.
• Strong judgment, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills in a changing environment.
• Ability to communicate and document work status, findings, risks, configurations, and open issues.
• Ability to work safely and maintain an organized, efficient work environment.

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.