Process Specialist-Tooling Engineer

Ford Motor • Sterling Heights, MI

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Ford is seeking a tooling engineer within its gear machining team. The role focuses on cutting tools, inventory management, order tracking, tool testing, CAD drawing management, and cost analysis, ensuring tooling supports precision, efficiency, and quality in gear manufacturing. The engineer collaborates with suppliers, engineering, and production teams to troubleshoot issues, enhance tooling performance, and drive continuous improvement. Processes used in Gear Manufacturing include skiving, hobbing, broaching, grinding, turning, welding, polishing, honing, and drilling.

The position supports machining process engineering, develops and improves manufacturing processes and products, investigates quality concerns, and delivers capable processes and tools. It also supports audits, ergonomic evaluations, corrective actions, process documentation, compliance, and throughput improvements.

Ford describes its manufacturing work as building smart vehicles and improving plant technologies and processes. The role is onsite, and visa sponsorship is not available. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The position is listed at salary grades 6, 7, and 8, with ranges of $72,480–$121,440, $84,480–$141,360, and $96,720–$162,120, respectively.

Requirements

• High School Diploma.
• At least 1 year of engineering, plant manufacturing, and/or related experience.
• Experience with machining processes such as broaching, hobbing, grinding, honing, turning, polishing, and automation.
• Demonstrated leadership in ONE FORD behaviors.
• Outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• 8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Lean tools including 5S, Kanban, Poka-yoke, and Value Stream Mapping.
• DMAIC and DMADV (DFSS) project methodology experience.
• TQM and Kaizen methods.
• FMEA, PPAP, and DOE experience.
• Visual Factory Management experience.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with cutting tools, fluids, applications, and processes for prismatic and round-part manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Support Manufacturing Process Engineering activity for Machining.
• Drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, and productivity.
• Apply engineering principles and analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products.
• Develop action plans to investigate and prioritize quality concerns and verify corrective actions on internal and supplier processes.
• Lead and conduct process audits to ensure process discipline is consistent with Powertrain guidelines.
• Conduct job ergonomic evaluations and deliver corrective actions as required.
• Create process and instruction sheets supporting quality methods and processes.
• Deliver capable processes and tools for Machining.
• Lead resolution of assembly-related concerns and lead variability-reduction and lean-manufacturing initiatives and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with Plant, Corporate, Governmental, and Environmental standards.
• Support ISO 14001 compliance and internal ISO auditing and compliance as required.
• Identify throughput constraints and drive root-cause improvements.
• Manage cutting tools, tooling inventory, order tracking, tool testing, CAD drawing management, and cost analysis.
• Collaborate with suppliers, engineering, and production teams to troubleshoot issues and improve tooling performance.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
• 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
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED