# STA Site Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $84,480 - $141,360 or $96,720 - $162,120
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced STA Site Engineer to join our team, responsible for industrializing and managing 'Quality' and 'Capacity' of Exterior commodities at Tier 1 supplier sites.

The successful candidate will drive supplier manufacturing excellence, flawless program launches, and capacity assurance across assigned commodities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Launch Management & APQP / PPAP: Lead supplier launch readiness, review and approve supplier capital and tooling work plans, and conduct onsite technical assessments.

- Quality Systems & Failure Mode Avoidance: Enforce robust defect prevention, apply Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) principles, and drive supplier adherence to special process requirements.

- Root-Cause Problem Solving & Issue Resolution: Lead supplier process quality containment, champion structured Problem-Solving methodologies, and partner with cross-functional teams to establish and monitor Continuous Improvement Action Plans (CIAPs).

- Capacity Verification & Production Risk Mitigation: Interface with Purchasing to conduct Global Capacity Planning (GCP) studies, identify production bottlenecks, and oversee recovery plans for constrained supplier operations.

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor of Science/Engineering or academic equivalent

- Manufacturing and/or Program Management experience in an industrial operations environment

- Knowledge of manufacturing processes, tooling, and assembly of vehicle system & component commodities

- Experience with Tooling, Assembly, Stamping, welding, metal/plastic joining technologies, Injection Molding, Electronics Mfg., Painting, and/or Machining

- Functional expertise in Problem Solving, Quality systems, and tools

- Supply/Issue Resolution Management Experience

- Proficiency in English, both written and oral

- Flexibility to Travel

In terms of benefits, Ford Motor Company offers:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare, 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

The salary range for this position is $84,480 - $141,360 or $96,720 - $162,120 depending on the salary grade.

## Skills

### Required
- GD&T
- Blueprint/CAD interpretation
- Tooling & Fixture validation
- Gage R&R
- SPC
- APQP
- PPAP
- PFMEA
- Control Plans
- IATF 16949
- Q1-MSA
- SIM
- Lean Manufacturing principles
- Structured Problem Solving
- Root Cause Analysis
- data-driven decision making
- risk assessment/mitigation

### Nice to have
- Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
- Advanced knowledge of electronics manufacturing process
- Statistical Analysis
- Experience mentoring internal teams of Supplier Quality Engineers
- Experience Industrializing NEW Automotive Electronics Manufacturing suppliers in North America (Greenfield Sites)
- Experience in Ford's Phased PPAP and APQP Process and Deliverables
- Experience using AI in problem solving cases

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