Ford Racing Engineering Supervisor, Additive Manufacturing

Ford Motor • Allen Park, MI

3h • Hybrid

About The Position

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! In this position, you will be identifying areas within the existing business to utilize Additive Manufacturing to improve timing for development cycles or investment avoidance, and identifying areas within our future business to utilize Additive Manufacturing to optimize designs for mass or other attributes. Using specific targeted applications, you will influence which technologies Ford should invest in or partner on.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Engineering
• Deep Practical Additive Manufacturing experience including: Design for Additive Manufacturing, Build set-up including orientation, support development, and slicing decisions, Build execution including machine set-up and part production, Quality confirmation through various post-build scans or measurements
• Practical Design and Release experience for automotive components.
• Must have basic understanding of the product development process and able to work intelligently with engineers
• Self starter, highly motivated for success
• Passion for winning that will not accept excuses for failure
• Entrepreneurial mindset, able to make decisions based on overall value analysis

Nice To Haves

• Masters of Engineering and/or Masters of Engineering Management and/or Masters of Manufacturing Engineering
• Previous or current experience leading salary technical personnel
• Extensive knowledge of other (non-Additive) manufacturing technologies for reference when determining whether Additive Manufacturing is appropriate for a particular application
• Enthusiast background, with passion for enthusiast products or motorsports.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall proliferation of Additive Manufacturing within Ford Racing on both Motorsports and Road Car applications.
• Identify specific uses for Additive technologies in the organization and grow internal capability by influencing which new Additive Technologies to pursue as a company, including purchase of new capital equipment.
• Design the principles to determine which projects and technologies should be pursued by Ford Racing through internal and external capabilities.
• Identify strategic partnerships for equipment and outsourced capability.
• Develop and deliver on key performance indicators (KPIs) for Ford Racing Additive Manufacturing efforts to appropriately measure growth.
• Develop and lead a small team that will become the center-of-excellence for Additive Manufacturing technologies to guide D&R engineers through the design for manufacturing process and product launch.
• Work with Design and Release (D&R) engineers and development engineers to identify areas where Additive Manufacturing can help our in-flight programs by speeding up evaluation of design iterations or avoidance of capital spend for production tools.
• Work with D&R engineers and Architecture team to target specific systems, sub-systems, or components for Additive technologies in the up-front stage of future programs.
• Take over coordination efforts of all existing Additive Manufacturing efforts for F1 Powertrain applications.
• Be single-point-of-contact for external partners to determine the appropriate involvement for Ford Racing on various corporate initiatives.
• Coordinate efforts with appropriate program and functional teams as required.
• Communicate program requirements (functional, timing, financials) to the external partners to ensure a path to success.

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: Manager