# Technical Expert-Static and Dynamic Sealing

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Livonia, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,500-$218,100
**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, we are seeking a Technical Expert-Static and Dynamic Sealing to join our Product Development team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the sealing function within transmission, axle, and drive unit products is delivered and function risks are mitigated using FMEA tools.

### Responsibilities

- Lead technical discussions and deep dives to balanced conclusions

- Understand upfront design, verification plan and methods, and industrialization process

- Author and maintain design engineering specifications for sealing-relevant components (gaskets, radial lip seals, liquid seals, o-rings, flanges, among others)

- Co-lead technical peer reviews with component supervisors

- Coach, mentor, and train D&R engineers across all global regions

- Own the sealing-relevant warranty spend including driving best practices across supply base

- Responsible for the creation and maintenance of Core Engineering Documents (FMA Documents, SDS/Requirements and Test Procedures, etc.)

- Integral to Signoff of System/Subsystem/Component with specific signoff responsibility before Chief Signoff

- Go-to for problem-solving on launch, recall, quality/field issues, DV/PV issues

- Conduct global supplier onsite reviews at component plants and recommend best practices for manufacturing process and quality control

- Provide technical support to the Architecture, Core, and Applications teams for the development of sealing strategies

- Develop and own interfaces with interfacing component/systems on boundary diagrams

- Conduct benchmarking to optimize component design for future programs

- Provide technical leadership to broader Underbody Systems engineering teams

- Leverage CAE modelling capability to optimize quality, maximize efficiency, minimize cost, and maintain/justify design rules according to first principles

- Create and conduct training sessions

- Lead Technical Design Reviews (TDRs) for System/Subsystem/Component

### Qualifications

- BS in Engineering

- 10 years of design & release experience with powertrain/driveline systems & components, including specific experience on launch

- 6+ years of design & release experience with sealing-relevant components

- Master's degree in engineering preferred

- Extensive experience creating and managing DFMEA/PFMEA/SCCAF/Control Plans/drawings

- Experience with CAE tools and methods

- Extensive knowledge & experience with associated supplier manufacturing and quality processes

- Proven history of evaluating choices and directing a team based on technical ideals balanced with industrialization realities

- Required leadership skills: quality-focused as #1 priority, innovative, excellent communicator, strong organizational skills, highly motivated self-starter

### 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

## Skills

### Required
- engineering
- design
- sealing-relevant components
- FMEA tools
- CAE modelling

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in engineering
- DFMEA/PFMEA/SCCAF/Control Plans/drawings
- CAE tools and methods

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