PVT Product Engineer

Ford Motor Company; Wayne (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Parental leave and ramp-up programs

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in the United States is seeking a quality engineer to partner with Body Interior Engineering and cross-functional teams. You will focus on instrument panels, floor consoles, and door trim, ensuring fit, finish, and overall system performance.

You will investigate warranty concerns, classify claims, drive corrective actions, and lead quality-improvement projects across Mazda Ford platforms, including ERS systems and VFG reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering required; master's preferred.
• Five+ years in product development, design and release, quality, or manufacturing engineering.
• Familiarity with containment, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action methods.
• Six Sigma Black Belt training or certification is a plus.
• Experience with DFMEA/PFMEA and SCCAF documents.

Responsibilities

• Investigate warranty and quality concerns using claims, feedback, and data.
• Classify claims with Central Triage and coordinate with dealers for diagnosis.
• Drive interim and permanent corrective actions for warranty and quality issues.
• Own customer-critical issues from root-cause analysis to resolution.
• Lead quality-improvement projects and track progress in IRIS/SIMPSN.
• Support warranty triage, binning, and creation of project objects.
• Participate in plant quality activities, stops, campaigns, and audits.
• Collaborate with suppliers and STA engineers to resolve concerns.
• Lead plant trials and support design changes and engineering releases.
• Maintain quality documentation and present updates in reviews.

Skills

Problem solving

Decision making

Clear communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

CATIA V5

Teamcenter

GD&T

JIRA

WERS

IRIS/SIMPSN

Job description

In this role, you’ll partner with Body Interior Engineering and cross-functional teams supporting the Bronco and Ranger programs. Your primary focus will include instrument panels, floor consoles, and door trim. You’ll also collaborate with teams responsible for flooring, dash-wall insulation, body exterior, sheet metal, door seals, and electrical systems, including wiring and electronics interfaces. Together, you’ll help ensure quality in fit, finish, and overall system performance.

What you’ll do

• Investigate customer and production quality concerns using warranty claims, customer and dealer feedback, plant data, returned parts, and other quality information.
• Review warranty claims and customer comments daily. Partner with the Central Triage Team to classify claims accurately, and contact dealerships as needed to clarify diagnoses, repairs, and parts returns.
• Drive interim containment actions (ICA) and permanent corrective actions (PCA) for concerns raised through warranty, executive escalations, social media feedback, technical hotlines, and other sources.
• Take ownership of customer-critical issues through resolution, including root-cause analysis and follow-up on corrective actions.
• Create and manage quality-improvement projects in IRIS/SIMPSN, track actions to completion, and communicate support needs through Vehicle Functional Group (VFG) quality leaders and Functional Quality Reviews (FQRs).
• Support the Warranty Center Triage Team by accurately binning claims and preparing clear, accurate Project Objects (POs).
• Support assembly-plant quality activities, including stop ships, stop builds, campaigns, audits, first-time-through issues, ergonomic concerns, and other production priorities.
• Partner with Supplier Technical Assistance (STA) engineers, suppliers, and Variability Reduction Teams (VRTs) to resolve supplier and subsystem concerns.
• Lead plant trials and support design changes, running changes, and engineering releases that improve quality, cost, fit, or supplier performance.
• Initiate or support WERS engineering concerns and alerts and contribute to current-model design projects and vehicle launches.
• Maintain subsystem- or VFG-level quality documentation and present updates at daily plant-quality reviews, VRT report-outs, and Vehicle Quality Reviews.
• Keep supervisors, peers, and cross-functional partners informed of priorities, progress, risks, and support needs.

What you’ll bring

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Strong technical problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, manufacturing, supplier, and service teams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced assembly-plant environment.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering; a master’s degree in mechanical engineering is a plus.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in product development, design and release, quality, program, or manufacturing engineering. Production-plant and PVT experience are especially valuable.
• Experience with containment, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action methods.
• Six Sigma Black Belt training or certification.
• Experience creating or reviewing DFMEA, PFMEA, and SCCAF documents.
• CAD experience with CATIA V5 and Teamcenter.
• Working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Familiarity with Ford warranty and quality processes, including Early Claims Binning (ECB) and Balanced Single Agenda for Quality (BSAQ).
• Experience with WERS, IRIS/SIMPSN, JIRA, SREA, CR, Notices, Alerts and AIMS.
• Strong teamwork and leadership skills, including the ability to present technical

Strong teamwork and leadership skills, including the ability to present technical

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.

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• 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
• Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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