# Exterior Structural Casting Technical Specialist **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $115,500-$218,100 **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/72763?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6ce07f87-412 ## Description At Ford Motor Company, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. As an Exterior Structural Casting Technical Specialist, you will serve as the Technical Specialist for all casting-related matters ensuring robust design & delivery of components & vehicle systems. Responsibilities: - Lead casting design, development and implementation for Structural Systems Engineering (BIW, Frames / Subframes, Battery Structures) - Lead and develop a team of casting engineers to expand usage of high/low pressure die casting, thixo-casting/thixo-molding, and rheocasting technology across Ford & Lincoln vehicle lines - Manage engineering team responsible for the forming simulation of casted designs to assess design impact of flow, fill, pressure and temperature distribution, and solidification - Lead the development and management of all Engineering Specifications, Design Rules, Engineering Requirements, Virtual Test Methods, 1st Pick List and Modular Designs needed to support the design of high pressure die castings for vehicle structures - Identify, develop, and implement new technologies to improve the efficiency of structural castings for vehicle structures - Work with a cross functional team including personnel from product development, manufacturing, packaging, attributes and suppliers to develop designs for large structural castings for BIW, frame/subframe and battery structure applications on future vehicles - Guide the develop casting solutions that are efficient to manufacture that incorporate the features and functions of multiple stamped parts and reduces the complexity of our assembly operations - Support the development of actions to address issues related to achieving Noise, Vibration, and Harshness, Durability, and Safety performance objectives - Support the creation of design solutions and aid in the development of the manufacturing process to ensure part quality and performance are meet - Work with external suppliers and the Ford manufacturing team to meet the dimensional requirements of the casting component and final assembly - Sign off on designs prior to milestone completion to support component and vehicle analysis, and prior to production tool kick off - Sign off on final parts and assemblies’ prior builds, certification testing, and production start-up - Support trouble shooting of prototype and production process with the supplier to address any part quality issues Qualifications: - Minimum Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or metallurgical engineering discipline or a related field - 10 years’ experience in automotive engineering and/or manufacturing (or like industry), including direct team leadership responsibility for the delivery of structural castings - 5+ years engineering experience with high pressure die casting design and manufacturing processes including the secondary operations associated with castings - 5+ years engineering experience with alloys, especially those used for structural castings and advanced light weighting materials and associate joining technologies - 5+ years engineering experience leveraging CAE to guide efficient and robust design and system execution - 5+ years engineering experience in the creation and application of DFMEAs, PFMEAs, Control Plans, Standards, Requirements & Specifications - Preferred: - Master’s degree in engineering discipline - Strong communication skills, both written and oral - 8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving skills - DMAIC Project Methodology experience - Familiar with application of MAGMA Software - Microsoft Office experience 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, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day ## Skills ### Required - mechanical engineering - metallurgical engineering - high pressure die casting - CAE - DFMEAs - PFMEAs ### Nice to have - Master’s degree in engineering discipline - Strong communication skills - 8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving skills - DMAIC Project Methodology experience - MAGMA Software - Microsoft Office --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72763?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)