Product Development Engineer - Driveline Fastening

Fastener Engineer

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Ford Driveline Engineering is seeking a highly skilled fastener engineer to lead the department on joint design assemblies. These assemblies include axles (front & rear), driveshafts, halfshafts, disconnect devices, transfer cases, and associated components. Deliverables for this role include leading core activities such as peer reviews of fastened joint deliverables, design rule and requirement authoring and ownership, failure mode avoidance work, and general problem solving of ongoing issues.

Responsibilities

• Enhance the robustness and reliability of driveline products
• Lead development and refinement of requirements
• Correlate test methods to customer duty cycles
• Oversee technical design review sign-off process
• Maintain core documents
• Detail oriented
• Passion for excellence
• Own implementation of new technical design review process for robustness in signoff (peer review)
• Maintain, improve and create core documents with input from tech specialist - DFMEA, RCL, boundary diagram, core DV, etc.
• Develop customer correlated duty cycles for more meaningful component testing and improved reliability with input from connected data and TDE duty cycles team
• Streamline requirements and core docs for engineering efficiency
• Author new systems to components requirements cascade for more robust upfront design
• Demonstrated ability to navigate and thrive in ambiguous situations
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound decisions in uncertain environments
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders effectively

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering or related field
• 5+ years of experience in fastening engineering
• The D&R engineer is expected to understand and effectively utilize product check-in/check-out processes, version control, data release, and change management within Ford's PLM ecosystem

Preferred:

• 10+ years of experience in fastening engineering

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

This position is a salary grade 5 to salary grade 8. Salaries can range from $63,480 - $162,120. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.