# Staff Design Industrialization Engineer - Thermals

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $127,100-$239,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is seeking a Staff Design Industrialization Engineer - Thermals to play a critical role in delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future.

The Design Industrialization Engineer is responsible for working between engineering and supply chain teams as well as with external suppliers to ensure alignment on requirements, provide critical feedback on part designs, 2-D drawings, and directly improve specification development procedures for Ford's next generation electric powertrains.

Responsibilities:

- Own processes, communication, and documentation from sourcing through to the transition to high volume production with new and existing suppliers

- Be the responsible owner for supplier site, quality plan, manufacturing process and quality of resultant part output

- Develop balanced specifications for successful RFQ's using reliability goals and FMEA's

- Evaluate supplier capabilities using Product DFM & Process DFM tools

- Define supplier quality goals during DFM negotiations and prototype phases for pre-production activities

- Lead critical capability evaluation and ensure quality for purchased parts and material supply chain from Tier 1 to Tier n at supplier

- Lead and conduct supplier visits to ensure accuracy of information

- Develop and validate corrective actions needed at suppliers to deliver quality targets at scale

- Support the design team in generating and checking 2-D drawings and component specifications

- Support the global supply chain team in should-cost activities and supplier negotiations

- Perform design for manufacturing review of components and systems

- Validate quoted costs vs. reality of production, and eliminate supplier waste for optimized cost

- Support the Global Supply Management team to ensure Costed Bill of Process is accurate, complete and aligns to manufacturing process

- Help define and drive program schedule based on supplier lead-times

- Directly hire and build out a technical engineering staff to lead quality and industrialization

Qualifications:

- B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

- 8+ years of experience in Design Industrialization Engineering or Supply Chain Management

- Proven experience in vehicle launch from prototype phase through mass production

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Excellent teamwork, problem-solving, communication, and project management skills

- Experience with thermal components (battery cooling, HVAC, heat management)

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

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Design Industrialization Engineering
- Supply Chain Management
- Thermal Components
- Battery Cooling
- HVAC
- Heat Management

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Automotive Industry
- Hardware Development

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