MP&L Packaging Engineer (LAP)

Ford Motor Company • Louisville, KY

3d • $84,480 - $141,360 • Onsite

About The Position

The MP&L Packaging Engineer will design, procure, and deploy unique shipping containers for automotive parts at Louisville Assembly Plant, the future home of the Ford Fathom™. The role works with Ford Purchasing and packaging suppliers to quote and place orders, evaluates supplier quality plans, and coordinates transportation testing. It also drives ongoing improvements to container design to increase pack density, reduce freight, labor, unit, and tooling costs, and improve part protection, functionality, and durability. The engineer may support campaigns to address container repair or quality issues and will advance packaging engineering through new technologies, methods, and ideas. Travel may be required, typically within the U.S., Canada, or Mexico for one to three days.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering or Packaging Engineering.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel as needed, typically within the U.S., Canada, or Mexico for one to three days.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of Teamcenter Engineering.
• CATIA V5 experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, procure, and deploy unique shipping containers for automotive parts.
• Work with Ford Purchasing to quote, analyze bids, and place orders with fabricators and manufacturers.
• Review fabricators’ quality planning to ensure it meets standards and expectations.
• Schedule and complete transportation testing; work with the test engineer to determine test criteria and document pass/fail conditions.
• Develop and implement action plans to correct issues identified during testing, when required.
• Drive continuous improvement of container designs by increasing pack density to reduce freight and labor costs.
• Reduce container unit and tooling costs through optimized designs and new technologies.
• Improve part protection, functionality, and durability.
• Participate in campaigns as required to address container repair and/or quality issues.
• Advance packaging engineering through the pursuit of new technologies, methods, and ideas.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• 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