EDS Design & Release Lead (Electrical Systems)

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision, and

Prescription drug coverage

Parental leave & back-up child care

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an EDS Design and Release Supervisor to lead the wire-harness design team, ensuring quality, cost, weight, and timing targets are met for vehicle programs.

You will drive cross-functional decisions, manage design trade-offs, and sign off on critical milestones, leveraging Ford systems such as GPDS, WERS, FEDEBOM, and JIRA. Hybrid onsite role with global scope.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, or closely related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of automotive EDS and/or wire-harness design experience.
• Experience supporting at least one full vehicle program launch through production.
• 3+ years of direct wire-harness design and release activities (component design, release, BOM ownership, validation).
• Experience in: Vehicle manufacturing/assembly support; Product testing/validation; Vehicle launch support; Supplier quality/change-management.

Responsibilities

• Lead team to meet Quality, Cost, Weight, Function, and Timing objectives and Six Sigma targets.
• Manage program targets, assess trade-offs, report risks and opportunities.
• Ensure adherence to quality-development practices (FMEA, DVPR, SDS, design guides, tests).
• Ensure designs satisfy functional and customer requirements; close systemic issues for EDS function.
• Lead wiring issues resolution using DEMS and JIRA; sign-off for program milestones (UNVx, UPVx, FDJ, TDJ, PEC, FEC).
• Drive subsystem design, release, and validation to meet tooling and vehicle launch timing.
• Facilitate cross-functional decisions via Functional and VHM meetings; support ongoing status reviews.

Skills

EDS design

Wire harness

Six Sigma

FMEA

DVPR

PPAP

cross-functional leadership

project timing

root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering

Tools

JIRA

FEDEBOM

GPDS

WERS

Teamcenter Engineering

CATIA

3DX

AIMS

Digital Buck

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking an EDS Design and Release Supervisor to lead the wire-harness design team, ensuring quality, cost, weight, and timing targets are met for vehicle programs.

You will drive cross-functional decisions, manage design trade-offs, and sign off on critical milestones, leveraging Ford systems such as GPDS, WERS, FEDEBOM, and JIRA. Hybrid onsite role with global scope.