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Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) Engineers are part of Ford Motor Company's Product Development organization and are co-located in the Vehicle Assembly Plant with the vehicle manufacturing 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, understanding, and resolving quality issues.

This position is within the Internal-Combustion Powertrain Thermal Systems Engineering (IPTSE), Vehicle Propulsion Systems Engineering (VPSE), and Underbody Systems Engineering (UNSE) PVT Team for all vehicle lines produced at Ohio Assembly Plant (OHAP).

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering (mechanical, electrical, etc.)

• 5+ years experience /Quality/Program Engineering

You'll have...

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (or similar)

• 5+ years experience in Program, Product Development, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• proven ability to solve difficult problems in high energy environment

• In-depth knowledge of the powertrain calibration development process.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop technical teams.
• Excellent leadership, teamwork, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.

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!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• 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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP1

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is onsite. Candidates are required to be onsite five or more days per week. #LI-Onsite

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In this position...

• Own cascaded functional external quality objectives (R/1000 and CPU).
  1. Lead and oversee Issue Resolution and Insights System (IRIS) warranty binning and analysis.
  2. Contact dealers, review part returns, and analyze data as needed to establish root cause.
  3. Work with larger problem solving team to contain identified issues before they leave assembly plant.
  4. Work with larger problem solving team to establish root cause. Define real and effective long-term corrective actions.
  5. Document problem solving progress using Single-Issue Management & Problem Solving Nexus (SIMPSN) system.
  6. Support and present issue findings in general plant quality meetings, Functional Quality Reviews (FQR), Director Quality Reviews (DQR), and Vehicle Quality Reviews (VQR).
• Support cascaded internal quality objectives with the Variability Reduction Team (VRT) manufacturing co-leads.
  1. Provide Incoming Quality (IQ) with any needed guidance for part measurement and drawing interpretation.
  2. Support VRT "gemba" process walks to reduce internal fallout.
• Support any needed Stop Ship action to advise severity, coordinate subject matter experts, establish containment, and prepare any needed repair procedures. Interface with Ford internal Critical Concern Review Group (CCRG) as needed.

What you'll do...

Change Management

• Lead in-plant trials for design driven changes and assess impact to quality and production.
• Lead in-plant trials for supplier driven changes and assess impact to quality and production.
• Provide in-plant trial feedback as part of Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) completion.
• Support Launch Team for major launches prior to OK to Buy (OKTB) and follow-through on any needed post OKTB issue resolution.
• Lead identified minor launches as agreed with functional and plant team leadership.

Quality

• Own cascaded functional quality objectives (R/1000 and CPU). Cut-off and contain issues before they leave assembly plants. Solve chronic and acute quality issues to establish real corrective actions.

• Lead Issue Resolution and Insights System (IRIS) warranty binning and analysis. Contact dealers to gather repair understanding. Use sound engineering judgement to help review part returns and determine next steps.

• Support the Variability Reduction Team (VRT) meetings with manufacturing co-leads.

• Support and present issue findings in quality forums, including Functional Quality Reviews (FQR), Director Quality Reviews (DQR), plant quality meetings, and Vehicle Quality Reviews (VQR) as required.

• Prepare functional problem-solving documents to support issue resolution with cross-functional team members (CCC 6-Panel, 8-D, 5 Why, Fishbone, etc.).

• Supplier support - timing plans, PPAP review, robustness actions both for Ford and to help reduce quality rejects (QRs). Lead is Ford’s Supplier Technical Assistant (STA) Resident or STA Central Quality.

• Supplier QOS support - includes regular supplier site visits for key/ problem suppliers. Lead is STA Central Quality, along with Site STA.

• Stop Ship support and prevention: Identify issues, coordinate subject matter experts, advise severity and next steps/containment, interface with Ford’s critical concern review group (CCRG). Prepare repair procedures for units contained at the assembly plant.

• SIMPSN (6-Sigma / 8D) project lead and Problem Resolution for low time in service warranty (except Supplier Quality)- communication and coordination with VFG/Plant/Others, author projects, manage implementation, calculate impact, manage function warranty forecast.

• STA support - help review 8Ds on select high-impact issues, help author BSAQ projects and close them out, advise and monitor supplier robustness changes. Lead is STA Central Quality.

• Plant issues - support/provide IQ direction (what/where to measure, etc), process walk support and advise QOSC/QPIP, ICA implementation until permanent corrective action (PCA) is available. PCA lead will be the design & release (D&R) engineer for Design, STA for Supplier Quality, and the VRT for plant-related issues.

• Support Plant FTT improvements.

Change Management

• Lead in-plant trials for design driven Engineering Change Notice (ECN) changes and assess impact to quality and production. Provide input as part of PPAP completion.

• Lead in-plant trials for supplier driven changes and assess impact to quality and production. Provide input back to component suppliers as part of PPAP completion.

• review and sign-off on supplier requests for component changes (SREA), run trials as required.

• TVM support (ECN, trials, issue clean up, PPAP completion) PPAP.

Launch Support

• Major launch - Support launch team prior to OKTB + 30 days and transition to lead on issue resolution post OKTB + 30 days.

• Minor launch - May lead some selected small-scale programs/added starters upon agreement with OPD/PVT Leadership.

• AIMS/DEMS - Lead for minor launches, support for major launches and take the lead after OKTB.