Campaign Prevent Specialist Suspension

Ford • Dearborn, MI

9h • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
In this position...
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. For the Suspension and Steering systems:
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.

Requirements

• BS Chassis/Mechanical Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in automotive model programs
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Masters Degree in Chassis/Mechanical Engineering
• 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
• Outstanding planning, organizational and project management skills with proper follow-up to accomplish multiple objectives
• 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 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees