Ford Racing Engineer, Additive Manufacturing

Ford Motor • Allen Park, MI

5h • 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, this person will be responsible for working for Design and Release engineers within Ford Racing to proliferate use of Additive Manufacturing where it makes business sense to do so.

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
• Enthusiast background, with passion for enthusiast products or motorsports.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Ford Racing Internally-Led Projects: Near term, 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. Near term, 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.
• Represent Ford Racing In Externally (Non Ford Racing) Led Projects: 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.
• Travel: Limited in beginning to site visits for benchmarking. Opportunities for more optional travel may exist if desired (supplier or partner visits, etc). All Ford facilities are currently in Southeast Michigan.

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