Staff Design Industrialization Engineer - Thermal

Ford • Long Beach, CA

151d • $127,100 - $239,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Design Industrialization Engineer is responsible for working between engineering and supply chain teams as well as with external suppliers to ensure alignment on requirements, provide critical feedback on part designs, 2-D drawings, and directly improve specification development procedures for Ford's next generation electric powertrains. The hands-on leader of this team will identify, attract, and retain the most talented engineers to enable new automotive suppliers, build robust quality plans, and drive for low cost high volume manufacturing processes.

Requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience in Design Industrialization Engineering or Supply Chain Management
• Proven experience in vehicle launch from prototype phase through mass production
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent teamwork, problem-solving, communication, and project management skills
• Experience with thermal components (battery cooling, HVAC, heat management)

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
• Experience in the automotive industry
• Experience with hardware development from concept through production launch in automotive or similar

Responsibilities

• Own processes, communication, and documentation from sourcing through to the transition to high volume production with new and existing suppliers
• Responsible owner for supplier site, quality plan, manufacturing process and quality of resultant part output
• Develop balanced specifications for successful RFQ's using reliability goals and FMEA's
• Evaluate supplier capabilities using Product DFM & Process DFM tools
• Define supplier quality goals during DFM negotiations and prototype phases for pre-production activities
• Lead critical capability evaluation and ensure quality for purchased parts and material supply chain from Tier 1 to Tier n at supplier.
• Lead and conduct supplier visits to ensure accuracy of information. Lead product introduction activities at the supplier.
• Develop and validate corrective actions needed at suppliers to deliver quality targets at scale
• Support the design team in generating and checking 2-D drawings and component specifications
• Support the global supply chain team in should-cost activities and supplier negotiations.
• Perform design for manufacturing review of components and systems
• Validate quoted costs vs. reality of production, and eliminate supplier waste for optimized cost Support the Global Supply Management team to ensure Costed Bill of Process is accurate, complete and aligns to manufacturing process. Identify areas for ongoing optimization.
• Help define and drive program schedule based on supplier lead-times
• Directly hire and building out a technical engineering staff to lead quality and industrialization

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, 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
• 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: Manager