Forward Model Quality Supervisor - Cooling/Thermal

Ford • Dearborn, MI

5h • Hybrid

About The Position

If good is just never good enough for you, Ford Quality shares your passion for striving for perfection. We’re responsible for driving the continuous improvement efforts that enable Ford to deliver the highest quality products and services. Help us drive operational excellence through such innovative, proprietary initiatives as our Global Product Development System, Quality Operating System and New Model Launch. Work cross-functionally and closely with Product Development. In this position... A Quality Supervisor that works with IPTSE (Internal Combustion Engines Propulsion Thermal Systems Engineering) to ensure a robust achievement of engineering deliverables for our forward model vehicle programs. You will work with teams to develop a precise test plan that supports our reliability objectives, and then through reviews and audits validate that the evidence and results support a robust sign off. This position also works closely with program quality and functional teams on setting warranty targets for forward model programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in cooling/climate design or test
• FMA knowledge (DFMEA, P-Diagram, Quality History, Boundary Diagram, Interface Analysis, and Functional Analysis)
• Strong problem-solving skills leveraging the “three-legged five-why” methodology
• Experience in reliability methods
• Knowledge of Microsoft office suite of tools

Responsibilities

• Interface with Climate/Cooling/mounts system teams, to ensure robust designs by validating the test evidence in FEDE meets the associated requirement and/or design rule.
• Perform change point analysis (CPA) with the functional teams to ensure that any changes to usage, noise factors, or boundaries are adequately represented in the application test plan
• Leverage problem solving skills to define the specific, detection and systemic root causes associated with DV and field failures.
• Work with the functional teams to ensure we have robust prevent recurrence actions identified on PAC/PRA issues with solid migration plans for affected programs.
• Work with Climate/Cooling/mounts teams, to migrate their Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA) to the model based system’s engineering platform.
• Verify program requirements are applicable to the target program
• Work with Climate/Cooling/mounts System tech specialist to identify if the program design verification plan meets the program reliability targets using the enhanced Reliability Check List.
• Work with Program quality team and functional quality teams to help develop targets for all future programs.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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