PVT Product Engineer

Ford Motor • 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 role primarily focuses on instrument panels, floor consoles, and door trim, while also collaborating on flooring, dash-wall insulation, body exterior, sheet metal, door seals, and electrical systems, including wiring and electronics interfaces. The engineer helps ensure quality in fit, finish, and overall system performance.

The position investigates customer and production quality concerns, drives containment and corrective actions, manages quality-improvement projects, and supports assembly-plant quality activities. It also works with suppliers and engineering teams to resolve subsystem concerns, leads plant trials, supports design changes and vehicle launches, maintains quality documentation, and communicates status, risks, and support needs to cross-functional partners.

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 VFG quality leaders and Functional Quality Reviews.
• 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 STA engineers, suppliers, and 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, and subsidized back-up child care.
• 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.
• 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