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In this position...

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' with regard to 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.

This position is responsible for Underbody (F2) functions (mainly transmissions and suspension systems) for all the VN127 E-Series, H567-Medium Duty and P708-F-Series Superduty products produced at OHAP.

OHAP builds commercial vehicles for NA Ford PRO segment.

Qualifications

You'll have…

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering
• 3+ years of experience in PD/Quality/Program

Even better if you have…

• Six-Sigma Training (Green or Black Belt Certification)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to support quick decision making
• Excellent presentation skills

What you’ll receive in return:

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, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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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Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Quality

• Own cascaded Functional Warranty quality objectives for the base organization (R/1000 and CPU)- respond to plant/supplier issues before they leave assembly plants. Evaluate chronic and new warranty issues to push for cut off and resolution and manage daily binning of incoming claims.
• Lead the Variability Reduction Team (VRT) meetings at the Plant with the manufacturing co-lead.
• Lead ECB Warranty binning and analysis (contact dealers, interface w FCSD), part return reviews.
• Support quality forums including Functional Quality Reviews (FQR), Director Quality Reviews (DQR), plant quality meetings (PIC, VRT, etc.), Vehicle Quality Reviews (VQR) and Quality Days as required.
• Prepare action plans to meet targets
• Supplier support - timing plans, PPAP review, robustness actions both for Ford and to help reduce QRs. Lead is STA Resident.
• 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 w CCRG. Prepare repair procedures for units contained.
• BSAQ lead and Problem Resolution for ECB 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 PCA available. PCA lead will be D&R for Design, STA for Supplier Quality and VRT for plant-related issues.
• Support Plant FTT improvements.

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 (None).
• AIMS/DEMS - lead for minor launches, support for major launches and take lead after OKTB.

Change Control

• Lead in-plant trials for changes and assess impact to quality/production.
• Lead VRT meetings and review supplier requests for component changes (SREA) prior to management approval and run trials as required.
• TVM support (ECN, trials, issue clean up, PPAP completion) PPAP completion is Site STA. TVM D&R owns the design and must sign off on PPAP with STA.