Product Development Engineer - Driveline Fastening
About The Position
We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. Ford Driveline Engineering is seeking a highly skilled fastener engineer to lead the department on joint design assemblies. These assemblies include Axles (Front & Rear), Driveshafts, Halfshafts, Disconnect Devices, Transfer Cases, and associated components. Deliverables for this role include leading Core activities such as peer reviews of fastened joint deliverables, Design Rule and Requirement authoring and owner ship, Failure Mode Avoidance work, and general problem solving of ongoing issues.
Requirements
- Detail oriented
- Passion for excellence
- Demonstrated ability to navigate and thrive in ambiguous situations
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound decisions in uncertain environments
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders effectively
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- 5+ number of years of experience in fastening engineering
- The D&R Engineer is expected to understand and effectively utilize product check-in/check-out processes, version control, data release, and change management within Ford’s PLM ecosystem
Nice To Haves
- 10+ years of experience in fastening engineering
- 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!
Responsibilities
- Enhance the robustness and reliability of driveline products
- Lead development and refinement of requirements
- Correlate test methods to customer duty cycles
- Oversee technical design review sign-off process
- Maintain core documents
- Own Implementation of new Technical Design Review Process for robustness in signoff (Peer Review)
- Maintain, improve and create Core documents with input from Tech Specialist - DFMEA, RCL, Boundary Diagram, Core DV, etc.
- Develop Customer Correlated Duty Cycles for more meaningful component testing and improved reliability with input from connected data and TDE duty cycles team
- Streamline requirements and core docs for engineering efficiency
- Author new systems to components requirements cascade for more robust upfront design
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
