# Site STA Engineer - Electronics

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $84,480-$141,360
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

In this position, you will implement commodity-specific business plans to ensure suppliers meet corporate launch, quality, capacity, warranty metrics, and vehicle delivery targets. You will lead cross-functional decisions with Ford and supplier leadership to drive resolution of open issues and implement actions to ensure zero vehicle losses from suppliers. As a principal for on-site troubleshooting and corrective actions for emergency supplier situations, you will grow our manufacturing expertise in electronics manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

- Drive robust sourcing risk assessments on new or potential electronics suppliers and existing suppliers with new commodities

- Industrialize new suppliers to Ford, suppliers implementing new technology and or complexity commodities

- Conduct onsite evaluation visits for Priority commodities as per GPDS supplier engagement process for new programs

- Support Capacity Purchase team in capacity studies and Capacity uplifts studies, interfacing with suppliers and Ford cross-functional teams

- Drive new supplier site evaluations and Supplier Risk Assessment on new sourcing in support of new program Sourcing (GCST process), identifying Risk Mitigation

- Review supplier incremental tooling work plans compliance to the Ford Phased PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) process requirements

- Review and disposition Supplier’s electronic Capacity Analysis Reports (eCARS) for compliance to capacity requirements

- Drive robust Supplier Failure Mode Avoidance through PFMEA, SCCAF, CP reviews, Manufacturing feasibility reviews and Health chart deployment as applicable

- Drive suppliers for Special process compliance, particularly Ford Electronic Manufacturing Requirements (FEMR), with the support of STA Technical Specialists and Subject Matter Experts

- Drive continuous improvement in manufacturing excellence with the assigned sites through Q1-MSA deployment, Q1 attainment/retention, Health Charts (HCs) compliance, provide Supplier training and guidance as required

- Drive deployment & improvement of Quality performance requirements (Q1, QR, TGW, R/1000, CPU), through Warranty Reduction, Benchmarking, Lean Manufacturing, G8D (Global 8 Disciplines) methodology, PFMEA, SPC, Gage R&R as required, including readouts to upper-level management

- Drive closure of supplier process quality issues related to Stop Ship/Build, BSAQ (Balanced Single Agenda for Quality) projects and Field Service Actions

- Drive compliance to all organisational and corporate training requirements and SIM process compliance

Qualifications:

- 5 years minimum experience analysing machine settings to (pick-and-place, solder printers, reflow ovens) and machine vision systems (SPI, AOI, AXI)

- Bachelor of Science / Engineering or Academic equivalent. Candidates without bachelor's degree will be considered with relevant automotive work experience in the supplier quality field

- Understanding and application of relevant electronic manufacturing standards (e.g., IPC-610, ISO 9000, ANSI S20.20, MIL, IATF 16949) and material regulations

- Performing manufacturing feasibility assessments

- Ability to speak and write fluently in English

- Experience in process planning, implementation, and launch in Electronics Manufacturing Systems

- Experience in project management or program launch

- Demonstrated knowledge of Problem Solving and Quality System Tools (e.g., 8D, 3-Legged-5Whys, FMEA, Statistical Process Control (SPC), MSA)

- Ability to travel to suppliers' sites (located in the US, Mexico and Canada) as required to conduct audits (up to 70%), support issues containment and resolution, and drive prevent re-occurrence actions

Even better, you may have:

- Advanced knowledge of the electronics manufacturing process with hands-on experience

- Six Sigma Black Belt Certification: Demonstrated ability to lead quality improvements initiatives, apply Six Sigma philosophies and principles (including the DMAIC Model)

- Conducted Statistical Analysis and mentored other engineers

- Experience mentoring internal teams of Supplier Quality Engineers

- Experience Industrializing NEW Automotive Electronics Manufacturing suppliers in North America (Greenfield Sites) leading to on-time PPAP approval

- Experience in Ford's Phased PPAP and APQP Process and Deliverables

- Experience using AI in problem solving cases

## Skills

### Required
- Electronics manufacturing
- Supplier quality
- Process planning
- Implementation
- Launch
- Problem solving
- Quality system tools
- Statistical process control
- Manufacturing feasibility assessments
- English language
- Travel

### Nice to have
- Advanced knowledge of electronics manufacturing process
- Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
- Conducted statistical analysis
- Mentoring internal teams
- Industrializing new suppliers
- Using AI in problem solving