# PVT Product Engineer **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Wayne, MI **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72187?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b5efbe2f-bfd ## Description In this role, you’ll partner with Body Interior Engineering and cross-functional teams supporting the Bronco and Ranger programs. Your primary focus will include instrument panels, floor consoles, and door trim. You’ll also collaborate with teams responsible for flooring, dash-wall insulation, body exterior, sheet metal, door seals, and electrical systems, including wiring and electronics interfaces. Together, you’ll help ensure quality in fit, finish, and overall system performance. **Responsibilities** - Investigate customer and production quality concerns using warranty claims, customer and dealer feedback, plant data, returned parts, and other quality information. - Review warranty claims and customer comments daily. Partner with the Central Triage Team to classify claims accurately, and contact dealerships as needed to clarify diagnoses, repairs, and parts returns. - Drive interim containment actions (ICA) and permanent corrective actions (PCA) for concerns raised through warranty, executive escalations, social media feedback, technical hotlines, and other sources. - Take ownership of customer-critical issues through resolution, including root-cause analysis and follow-up on corrective actions. - Create and manage quality-improvement projects in IRIS/SIMPSN, track actions to completion, and communicate support needs through Vehicle Functional Group (VFG) quality leaders and Functional Quality Reviews (FQRs). - Support the Warranty Center Triage Team by accurately binning claims and preparing clear, accurate Project Objects (POs). - Support assembly-plant quality activities, including stop ships, stop builds, campaigns, audits, first-time-through issues, ergonomic concerns, and other production priorities. - Partner with Supplier Technical Assistance (STA) engineers, suppliers, and Variability Reduction Teams (VRTs) to resolve supplier and subsystem concerns. - Lead plant trials and support design changes, running changes, and engineering releases that improve quality, cost, fit, or supplier performance. - Initiate or support WERS engineering concerns and alerts and contribute to current-model design projects and vehicle launches. - Maintain subsystem- or VFG-level quality documentation and present updates at daily plant-quality reviews, VRT report-outs, and Vehicle Quality Reviews. - Keep supervisors, peers, and cross-functional partners informed of priorities, progress, risks, and support needs. **Qualifications** **Required** - Bachelor’s degree in engineering. - Strong technical problem-solving and decision-making skills. - Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, manufacturing, supplier, and service teams. - Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced assembly-plant environment. **Preferred** - Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering; a master’s degree in mechanical engineering is a plus. - Five or more years of relevant experience in product development, design and release, quality, program, or manufacturing engineering. Production-plant and PVT experience are especially valuable. - Experience with containment, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action methods. - Six Sigma Black Belt training or certification. - Experience creating or reviewing DFMEA, PFMEA, and SCCAF documents. - CAD experience with CATIA V5 and Teamcenter. - Working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T). - Familiarity with Ford warranty and quality processes, including Early Claims Binning (ECB) and Balanced Single Agenda for Quality (BSAQ). - Experience with WERS, IRIS/SIMPSN, JIRA, SREA, CR, Notices, Alerts and AIMS. - Strong teamwork and leadership skills, including the ability to present technical information effectively. **Benefits** - Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage - 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 - Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day ## Skills ### Required - engineering - problem-solving - decision-making - written communication - verbal communication - presentation skills - project management ### Nice to have - mechanical engineering - master’s degree in mechanical engineering - product development - design and release - quality engineering - program engineering - manufacturing engineering - Six Sigma Black Belt - DFMEA - PFMEA - SCCAF - CATIA V5 - Teamcenter - GD&T - FORD warranty and quality processes - WERS - IRIS/SIMPSN - JIRA - SREA - CR - Notices - Alerts - AIMS --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72187?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)