If good is just never good enough for you, Ford Quality shares your passion for striving for perfection. We’re responsible for driving the continuous improvement efforts that enable Ford to deliver the highest quality products and services. Help us drive operational excellence through such innovative, proprietary initiatives as our Global Product Development System, Quality Operating System and New Model Launch. Work cross-functionally and closely with integrated teams in Manufacturing, Product Development, Purchasing, Marketing, Sales and Service.

In this position...

As a key member of our team, you will develop and implement innovative solutions to improve the quality and performance of our exterior systems (sheet metal, frames, closures, latches, ornamentation and sealings). You'll provide essential engineering sign-off and lead the development of creative solutions for complex quality problems, directly impacting customer satisfaction.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

What you'll do...

• Communicate to the larger program and engineering teams the voice of the customer in terms of error states from quality history sources and desired user experience and content related features and changes.

• Work with the Plant Vehicle Team(s), current model quality, manufacturing and Supplier Technical Assistance to identify and root cause top out going model or surrogate vehicle issues. Assess and facilitate fixes for these issues along with program approval and prevent reoccurrence actions as required.

• Guide Ford engineering in adopting best practices for demonstrating design robustness and reliability.

• Audit Design Verification Plans and Failure Mode Avoidance documents in support of Chief Engineering Sign-Off and communicate issues & resolution to Chiefs and Directors.

• Support cross-functional team to create robust plans in support of Program Milestone Declarations.

• Extract and analyze current and historical quality data using Ford internal quality databases to identify design, process, and product content opportunities to improve quality for our forward models.

• Develop and maintain exterior function quality metric (JDP IQS PP100, QNPS NPL, R1000) road maps for North America led vehicle programs that demonstrate a plan to meet program targets.

• Assess quality impact for launching programs.

• Drive design rule and Critical to Quality health chart program compliance and improvements using exterior systems background / knowledge and leveraging engineering SMEs.

• Participate in customer clinics by understanding customer concerns and then communicate them to the appropriate team that can address them.

• Conduct competitive analysis to confirm and/or develop Best-in-Class performance standards.

• Close the quality feedback loop between current model issues and forward model planning.

You'll have...

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering

• 3+ years of auto industry experience

• Experience applying FMA disciplines (DFMEA, P-Diagrams, Boundary Diagrams).

• Experience working in problem solving.

• Proactive work ethic with positive attitude is key.

• Willingness to occasionally travel to assembly plants, supplier sites and competitive analysis.

• Ability to communicate and interact well with cross-functional teams.

Even better, you may have...

• Masters Degree in 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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.

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This position is a range of salary grades 6, 7 and 8.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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