Description
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners.
In this position, you will lead and manage complex engineering projects, including setting timelines, budget, and coordinating with cross-functional teams on studio design, engineering, manufacturing, testing, and supply chain. You will be working on a small high-performing team to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle exterior systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to deliver the ambitious project scope.
Responsibilities:
- Drive engineering teams towards containment and resolution of issues raised from design reviews, virtual builds, and build events to protect the program's schedule to prototype build dates, start of production, and ongoing production.
- Maintain supplier relationships in collaboration with Supply Chain team to ensure timely deliveries for build events.
- Monitor work outputs and deliverables for potential systems and vehicle incompatibilities and opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration.
- Ensure problems are transparent and risks are identified and proactively ensure that risk mitigating actions are ongoing within relevant engineering teams.
- Set agenda for key decisions to be made at each meeting to eliminate bottlenecks and retire risks.
- Support key decisions working cross-functionally across engineering, finance, and strategy to reach the right conclusions.
Qualifications:
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a relevant field.
- 5+ years of experience in an automotive product development environment.
- Experience with Catia V5/6, Confluence, and Jira applications.
- In-depths technical knowledge, solid understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and design principles specific to exterior systems, including trim, front-end structural and assembly, glazing, lighting, ADAS sensor integrations, etc.
- Detailed knowledge of the product development process from design, development, validation, and industrialization.
- Proven experience driving progress on multiple projects across multiple locations and timelines.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, ability to analyze complex problems, identify solutions, and make informed decisions under pressure.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Even better, you may have:
- Experience with supply chain management and tooling timing planning.
- Experience in working on automotive Class A surface feasibility assessment and development, vehicle layout/package, including body structures, exteriors, closures.
- Direct and relevant TPM experience in developing complex, innovative assemblies.
- Strong understanding of GD&T, craftsmanship, and CMF and how design execution would be affected.
- EE fundamentals (able to develop and read block diagrams, etc.).
- Collaborative leadership style, collaborate with a diverse team of engineers, designers, and suppliers, so effective communication, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills are essential.
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.