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