PVT Product Engineer

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Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!

Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) Engineers are part of Ford Motor Company’s North American Engineering organization and are co-located in the Vehicle Assembly Plant with the vehicle production team. The PVT Engineer is the 'first line of defense' regarding Functional system quality for the products produced at the assembly plant. The PVT Engineer has several responsibilities associated with analyzing and fixing quality issues on components shipped into the assembly plant, and processes within the Vehicle Assembly Plant and integrated remote build centers.

You'll have...

• Bachelor in engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in an automotive manufacturing environment.

Even better, you may have...

• Experience in PD/Quality/Program/Manufacturing desirable
• Six Sigma Black Belt trained desirable
Excellent teamwork, leadership, and presentation skills.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

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This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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In this position...

• Work with Body Exterior engineering team to deliver quality objectives heavily focused on lighting, washing, wiping and glass systems.
• Conduct a daily review of incoming warranty claims data, review customer and dealership comments and bin claims into accurate binning categories.
• Contact dealership/s for parts and repair diagnoses, participate in customer call back to ensure proper understanding of customer feedback.
• Review returned parts for root cause analyses and develop Interim Containment and Permanent Corrective Actions.

What you'll do...

• Support assembly plant with Stop Ships/Stop Builds, Campaigns, Audits, Root Cause Analysis and other Quality related tasks.
• Lead engineering commodity changes for future minor product launches and lead cost reduction actions in current production vehicles.
• Support Variability Reduction Team (VRT) for specific sub-systems and work closely with Supplier partners for subsystem components to address quality concerns.
• Lead engineering trials and the implementation of running changes for the sub-system.
• Issue engineering Alerts and initiate and/or pursue authorization of engineering concerns for product changes to support Quality objectives.
• Engage technical experts and functional team members for driving resolution and in developing corrective actions to improve product quality.
• Maintain sub-system and/or Vehicle Functional Group (VFG) level Quality documents.
• Create presentations for various levels of upper management (weekly VRT report out, Vehicle Quality Reviews, Engineering Managers reviews) and review results.