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Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) Engineers are part of Ford Motor Company’s North American Engineering organization and are co-located in the Vehicle Assembly Plant with the vehicle production team.  The PVT Engineer is the 'first line of defense' regarding Functional system quality for the products produced at the assembly plant.  The PVT Engineer has several responsibilities associated with analyzing and fixing quality issues on components shipped into the assembly plant, and processes within the Vehicle Assembly Plant and integrated remote build centers.  

You'll have...

Bachelor in engineering or related field.5+ years of experience in an automtove manufacturing environment.2+ years of experience with sheetmetal fabrication.

Even better, you may have...

Six Sigma Black Belt trained desirable.Excellent teamwork, leadership, and presentation skills.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

 

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• 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.

 

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRnon-HTHD
This position is a range of salary grades 7-8 .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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In this position...

Work with Body Exterior engineering team to deliver quality objectives heavily focused on Body in White and sheetmetal.Conduct a daily review of incoming warranty claims data, review customer and dealership comments and bin claims into accurate binning categories.Contact dealership/s for parts and repair diagnoses, participate in customer call back to ensure proper understanding of customer feedback.Review returned parts for root cause analyses and develop Interim Containment and Permanent Corrective Actions.

What you'll do...

Support assembly plant with Stop Ships/Stop Builds, Campaigns, Audits, Root Cause Analysis and other Quality related tasks.Lead engineering commodity changes for future minor product launches and lead cost reduction actions in current production vehicles.Support Variability Reduction Team (VRT) for specific sub-systems and work closely with Supplier partners for subsystem components to address quality concerns.Lead engineering trials and the implementation of running changes for the sub-system.Issue engineering Alerts and initiate and/or pursue authorization of engineering concerns for product changes to support Quality objectives.Engage technical experts and functional team members for driving resolution and in developing corrective actions to improve product quality.Maintain sub-system and/or Vehicle Functional Group (VFG) level Quality documents.Create presentations for various levels of upper management (weekly VRT report out, Vehicle Quality Reviews, Engineering Managers reviews) and review results.