Program Vehicle Team Engineer

Job Description
In this position...
The candidate for the Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) engineer position in the Powertrain and Chassis team at Michigan assembly should be:

1. Capable of trouble shouting warranty claims with diverse root causes (product design, supplier quality or assembly process)
2. Work with assembly line operators and team leaders to improve assembly effectiveness and reduce variability.
3. Work with Internal Quality team to quickly address and cut-off incoming quality issues from suppliers.

Responsibilities
What you'll do...

• Review incoming warranty claims data on a daily basis, review customer and dealership comments, bin claims into proper binning categories, contact dealership 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
• Support assembly plant with Stop Ships/Stop Builds, Campaigns, Audits, Root Cause Analysis and other Quality related tasks
• Lead engineering commodity running changes and 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
• Review and approve Supplier Request for Engineering Approval
• 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 or Vehicle Functional Group (VFG) level Quality documents (SAQ, Top 20 concerns)
• Make presentations to various levels of upper management (weekly VRT report out, Vehicle Quality Reviews, Engineering Managers reviews)

Qualifications
You'll have...

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering preferred
• Ford Warranty systems knowledge of ECB, BSAQ, GSAR
• Demonstrated Technical Problem-Solving Skills
• Strong understanding of Powertrain and Chassis automotive systems
• Ability to establish a systems engineering approach to problem solving
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Tools for documentation and presentation
• Engineering Problem Solving; root cause identification and analysis, developing Containment Actions and Permanent Corrective Actions

Even better, you may have...

• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Working in a fast-paced challenging environment.

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