# Design and Release Engineer-Soft Trim Components

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,100 - $109,300
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, a global leader in the automotive industry, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of transportation. As a Design and Release Engineer for Soft Trim Components, you will be responsible for designing, developing, validating, and releasing soft trim components for Ford vehicles across various phases of the product development process.

**Job Overview** This role involves managing costs, monitoring interior systems development, and ensuring compliance with corporate and local requirements. You will translate customer, regulatory, and product requirements into engineering targets and collaborate with suppliers and assembly departments to address quality and manufacturing issues.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, develop, validate, and release automotive systems, subsystems, and components for suppliers.

- Manage costs for current and future applications.

- Monitor interior systems development according to company benchmarks.

- Ensure parts compliance with Worldwide Customer Requirements (WCR), Engineering Specifications (ES), and Systems Design Specifications (SDS).

- Translate customer, regulatory, and product requirements into engineering targets.

- Analyze customer feedback and supplier performance.

- Support parts incorporation at assembly plants and address production quality issues.

- Identify design improvements for quality and cost optimization.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a similar field.

- 3+ years of experience in automotive cockpit and trim applications.

- 3+ years of experience in launch, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.

- 1 year of CAD experience.

- Experience with design tools like CATIA, Teamcenter, Digital Buck, GD&T, RSS Studies, and DFMEA.

- Proficiency in analytical tools such as CAE and Moldflow.

- Strong communication and teamwork skills.

**Benefits**

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

- Paid parental leave and new parent ramp-up programs.

- Family building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members.

- Tuition assistance.

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays.

**Salary** The salary range for this position varies by grade level:

- 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
- CAD
- CATIA
- Teamcenter
- Digital Buck
- GD&T
- RSS Studies
- DFMEA
- CAE
- Moldflow

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Complex Systems
- Injection Molding
- Secondary Tooling

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