Durability Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

18h • Hybrid

About The Position

Durability Engineer 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! Be part of a Ford team responsible delivering vehicles that are “Built Ford Tough.” You will champion a team that works cross-functionally with all teams to deliver vehicles that are robust to our customers’ use. In this position... You will work on new Ford vehicle programs for the Durability Attribute from concept to production. You will have opportunities to work on design load target development, conduct simulations for road load cascades, manage durability tests, and conduct measurements. We are looking for curious engineers who want to explore new processes and tools and be highly engaged in solving durability issues. You will track and report overall program durability health/readiness from concept to launch and beyond. Using the health data, you will be responsible for ensuring milestone reporting requirement are met, organize cross-functional teams to drive issue resolution and hold teams accountable to deliver against the requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years road loads, durability CAE, durability attribute, or vehicle attribute experience

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Experience with material strength and fatigue
• Experience with MSC ADAMS in loads simulation, Familiarity with NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or OPTISTRUCT
• Experience in road load data collection, use of road load data, and/or interpreting tested data
• Familiarity with architectural tools (C123, CSE, etc)
• Programming Skills (e.g. MATLAB, Python, etc.)
• Experience using SimCenter (LMS) TestLab, nCode and Reliasoft
• Possess a growth mindset and desire to work in fast-paced and highly technical environment
• Highly motivated and proactive, with exceptional attention to detail
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with strong communication and teamwork skills

Responsibilities

• Act as single point of contact for Program Durability
• Pre-Durability Planning - Lessons learned, spare parts, competitive benchmarking
• Cascade durability targets, develop road load support plans, and help develop road load cascades for vehicle systems through use of simulation tools.
• Develop/ maintain Vehicle Level Durability Verification Plan
• Interface w/ proving grounds and labs for tracking, raising, and resolving issues.
• Champion Durability Milestone assessments (Program Design Reviews, and Milestone)
• Develop and maintain a program durability health chart.
• Provide durability program readiness for OK to buy Matrix.
• Champion Program durability issue resolution/closure.
• As needed, directly support durability issue resolution or verification with detailed loads analysis, simulations, or road load measurement support to be an active part of the root cause and/or verification team.
• Interface with various functional and test teams to ensure test (method) aligns with vehicle level requirements, and issues are captured, raised, and resolved.
• Lead regular Director level Durability risk assessments.
• Ensure all teams deliver according to product development timing.

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