Product Engineer 1

We partnered with the UAW to provide our employees with competitive wages, exceptional benefits, and the opportunity to work across the wide spectrum of challenging career opportunities. 

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead design, development, and release of various components meeting vehicle targets, requirements, and cost targets ie: Spot lamps, Component mounting brackets, Underbody shields.
• Plan and coordinate required component testing to confirm performance and durability. 
• Evaluate/develop supplier parts to ensure product meets design targets and cost targets. 
• Liaison to manufacturing, service and vendors to implement designs that are cost effective and manufacturing feasible. 
• Basic program management to coordinate supplier and internal development to meet vehicle project timing.
• Prepare and present financial 2-pager documents for any new or updated commodities
• Support FMEA, DVP&R, interface to Release Engineer
• Studio support for the packaging of all new feature content related to the project scope 
• Knowledge of Ford design & release process World Engineering Release System (WERS), work effectively with multiple cross functional teams on the vehicle program.
• Support the test engineers to prove out the design functions as intended and ensure all SDS requirements are met.
• Support the development of in vehicle package locations by supporting the application teams with ideas and feasibility of attachment features and internal packaging constraints of the new features.
• Track all related issues in the Ford AIMS system, resolve and close as required for each milestone.
• Support the PPAP process with all the suppliers affected in order to meet the deliverables for the vehicle program.
• Support the creation of the Device Transmittal (DT) for all the electrical features final assemblies and components to ensure compatibility.
• Support the creation of core quality documents such as DFMEA, Boundary Diagrams, Interface Matrix, Significant & Critical Characteristics Approval Form (SCCAF), DVPR, etc for the new features’ groups 

Qualifications
Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, or related
• 8 years of automotive experience 
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office

Preferred:

• Product Development Engineering experience
• VisMockup/Digital Buck tool set
• WERS experience

Benefits: 

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401K Match
• Paid time off
• HSA and FSA
• Long- and Short-Term Disability
• Life Insurance