# Product Development Engineer-Core Seatbelt Subject Matter Expert

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, 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

At Ford Motor Company, a renowned global automaker, you will play a crucial role as a Product Development Engineer-Core Seatbelt Subject Matter Expert. This position involves providing technical guidance on all seatbelt matters, driving innovation, cost efficiency, and quality improvements.

**Job Overview:** As a Core Seatbelt Subject Matter Expert (SME), you will report to the Core Seatbelt Technical Specialist and provide technical expertise to engineering and program teams on various seatbelt-related aspects, including innovation, cost, quality, and execution. Your responsibilities will also involve mentoring, training, and coaching PD engineering teams and other skill teams as needed.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Serve as the core subject matter expert for all seatbelts

- Guide and mentor seatbelt applications design and release engineers

- Lead or support weekly seatbelt TDRM meetings and provide technical guidance on seatbelt matters

- Develop high-quality specifications, design rules, and test methods

- Maintain a seatbelts technology database and roadmap, staying updated on the latest seatbelts and pyrotechnic technologies

- Support global seatbelts modularity and business plan processes, defining vehicle needs and attributes

- Address critical concerns, field service activities, and problem-solving related to seatbelts

- Build and maintain a lessons-learned database on best practices for seatbelt issue resolution

- Support global launches related to seatbelts and engineering excellence work streams

- Champion benchmarking of key competitors and support design cost reduction initiatives

- Drive global commonality for seatbelts across different regions and vehicles

- Foster a productive work environment with global teams, including seats and restraints technology/program teams, PD areas, purchasing, and manufacturing

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a similar field

- At least 5 years of experience in seatbelt engineering

- 1 year of CAD experience

- Strong technical background in seatbelts, airbags, gas generators, and interfacing systems

- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, DFSS Green Belt certification, strong SPC, DFMEA, DRBFM, and statistical skills, experience with global Tier 1 suppliers, and knowledge of Ford, PD, and Restraints principles

**Benefits:**

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and new parent ramp-up programs

- Family building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members

- Tuition assistance

- Active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- Generous paid holiday schedule

**Salary:**

- Salary grade 5: $65,100 - $109,300

- Salary grade 6: $74,300 - $124,500

- Salary grade 7: $86,600 - $144,900

- Salary grade 8: $99,100 - $166,200

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- seatbelt engineering
- CAD

### Nice to have
- master's degree
- DFSS Green Belt
- SPC
- DFMEA
- DRBFM

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