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From the employer's careers site First seen 31 Oct 2026

Field Service Engineer

Ford Motor Company Los Angeles, CA On-site senior full-time

Salary

$81,800-$182,800 per year

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Description

As a Field Service Engineer, you'll be the go-to technical expert and trusted advisor for Ford and Lincoln dealerships in your assigned Tech Zone.

You’ll spend about 4 days per week in Ford and Lincoln dealerships, focusing on three primary areas:

  • Routine Dealership Visits & Service Performance
  • Technical & Repair Assistance
  • Legal, Customer Relations & Dispute Resolution Support

Responsibilities include:

  • Diagnose the toughest vehicle concerns and improve dealership service processes
  • Provide insights and recommendations to improve repair quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction
  • Lead diagnosis and repair strategy on difficult-to-repair vehicles
  • Offer clear diagnostic guidance and coaching to dealership technicians
  • Support Ford legal counsel, executive liaison, and dispute resolution teams
  • Perform vehicle inspections and complete final repair attempts
  • Serve as a technical expert in depositions, arbitrations, and trials

Consultative & Process Improvement Initiatives:

  • Help dealerships create and maintain technician training plans
  • Analyze why Field Service Engineer involvement was needed on difficult-to-repair vehicles
  • Identify dealership process gaps and present practical solutions
  • Partner with service departments to improve repair processes
  • Ensure dealerships maintain a robust and complete inventory of Essential Service Tools and Equipment

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 2+ years of automotive dealership diagnosis and repair experience
  • 2+ years of experience using Microsoft 365
  • Valid, unrestricted driver’s license
  • Ability to operate manual transmission vehicles
  • Ability and willingness to travel with overnight stays on a weekly basis

Benefits:

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments
  • 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

Salary:

  • Salary grade 6: $81,800-$136,900
  • Salary grade 7: $95,300-$159,400
  • Salary grade 8: $109,100-$182,800

Skills

Required

  • Microsoft 365
  • automotive diagnosis
  • repair experience
  • driver's license

Nice to have

  • Ford and/or Lincoln specific Automotive Repair Technical Training
  • ASE certifications
  • Hands-on vehicle diagnosis and repair experience

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/73161

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