PVT Product Engineer

Ford • Wayne, MI

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The PVT Product Engineer partners with Body Interior Engineering and cross-functional teams supporting the Bronco and Ranger programs. The primary areas of focus are instrument panels, floor consoles, and door trim, with collaboration across teams responsible for flooring, dash-wall insulation, body exterior, sheet metal, door seals, and electrical systems, including wiring and electronics interfaces. The role helps ensure quality in fit, finish, and overall system performance.

The engineer investigates customer and production quality concerns, leads containment and corrective actions, owns customer-critical issues through resolution, and manages quality-improvement projects. The role also supports assembly-plant quality activities, supplier and subsystem problem-solving, plant trials, engineering changes, current-model design projects, and vehicle launches. The engineer maintains quality documentation and communicates status, risks, priorities, and support needs to supervisors, peers, and cross-functional teams.

Ford offers a choice of career paths and describes a work life intended to accommodate employees. Visa sponsorship is not available. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and employment eligibility will be verified at hire.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Strong technical problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, manufacturing, supplier, and service teams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced assembly-plant environment.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering; a master’s degree in mechanical engineering is a plus.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in product development, design and release, quality, program, or manufacturing engineering; production-plant and PVT experience are especially valuable.
• Experience with containment, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action methods.
• Six Sigma Black Belt training or certification.
• Experience creating or reviewing DFMEA, PFMEA, and SCCAF documents.
• CAD experience with CATIA V5 and Teamcenter.
• Working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Familiarity with Ford warranty and quality processes, including Early Claims Binning (ECB) and Balanced Single Agenda for Quality (BSAQ).
• Experience with WERS, IRIS/SIMPSN, JIRA, SREA, CR, Notices, Alerts and AIMS.
• Strong teamwork and leadership skills, including the ability to present technical information.

Responsibilities

• Investigate customer and production quality concerns using warranty claims, customer and dealer feedback, plant data, returned parts, and other quality information.
• Review warranty claims and customer comments daily; partner with the Central Triage Team to classify claims and contact dealerships to clarify diagnoses, repairs, and parts returns.
• Drive interim containment actions (ICA) and permanent corrective actions (PCA) for concerns raised through warranty, executive escalations, social media feedback, technical hotlines, and other sources.
• Own customer-critical issues through resolution, including root-cause analysis and follow-up on corrective actions.
• Create and manage quality-improvement projects in IRIS/SIMPSN, track actions to completion, and communicate support needs through Vehicle Functional Group (VFG) quality leaders and Functional Quality Reviews (FQRs).
• Support the Warranty Center Triage Team by accurately binning claims and preparing clear, accurate Project Objects (POs).
• Support assembly-plant quality activities, including stop ships, stop builds, campaigns, audits, first-time-through issues, ergonomic concerns, and other production priorities.
• Partner with Supplier Technical Assistance (STA) engineers, suppliers, and Variability Reduction Teams (VRTs) to resolve supplier and subsystem concerns.
• Lead plant trials and support design changes, running changes, and engineering releases that improve quality, cost, fit, or supplier performance.
• Initiate or support WERS engineering concerns and alerts and contribute to current-model design projects and vehicle launches.
• Maintain subsystem- or VFG-level quality documentation and present updates at daily plant-quality reviews, VRT report-outs, and Vehicle Quality Reviews.
• Keep supervisors, peers, and cross-functional partners informed of priorities, progress, risks, and support needs.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• 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
• Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level