Campaign Prevent Specialist Suspension

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves? Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more! Minimize campaign occurrences on forward model programs through the campaign prevent process, improve design robustness and compliance with foundation documents/requirements through leading the technical design review process, and assist with facilitating reviews and decisions leading up to a field service action.

Requirements

• BS in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent)
• Minimum 5+ years of chassis design or engineering experience.
• Understanding of GPDS deliverables and basic Ford engineering tools including Teamcenter and buck environment.
• <PS> through launch experience.
• Experience launching new vehicles.
• Ability to handle complex tasks and challenging situations under compressed timing.
• Experience communicating with senior leaders, design and release, manufacturing, and suppliers.

Nice To Haves

• Strong One Ford Leadership Behaviors with demonstrated ability to drive and deliver results.
• Effective coaching and mentoring skills.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Ability to build strong effective relationships with cross functional teams (Foundation Chassis, Design and Release, Program Management, Vehicle Operations, and Suppliers).

Responsibilities

• Lead the Technical Design Review process for all programs.
• Lead integrating the campaign prevent and technical design review processes into one process where the separate bits complement each other.
• Ensure a process timeline and program schedule is current and followed.
• Conduct up front virtual and downstream hardware campaign prevent reviews.
• Lead campaign prevent awareness sessions for programs at UNV0.
• Conduct or supervise reviews (virtual and hardware fresh eyes) for all programs.
• Raise and agree with closures of fresh eyes review AIMs issues.
• Lead Prevent Action Closure process for recalls and stop ships, and manage the prevent recurrence process. (Application teams will continue to lead specific PAC actions.)
• Lead or run the weekly suspension prevent recurrence meeting.
• Maintain and keep up to date campaign prevent templates and checklists.
• Monitoring the NHTSA and other recall sources for potential assessment in the prevent process.
• Support development of 14D’s, Prevent Action Closure papers, and migration plans.
• Participate in durability reviews.
• Use experience in delivering designs into production to not just facilitate a process but assist with proposing recommendations and assisting in training engineers with less experience on how to systematically deliver quality products on time to target.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level