Senior Hybrid HPDC Structural Casting Engineer

Ford-Motor-Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Paid parental leave

Vehicle discount for employees

Tuition assistance

Paid holidays

Community service time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a skilled Mechanical/Materials engineer to join the Product Development team in Dearborn. This role focuses on the design and development of structural HPDC components for BIW and frame projects, delivering casting concepts, gating systems, and manufacturability analyses.

You will collaborate with crash safety, durability, and NVH teams, provide technical support through execution and industrialization, and generate core engineering documentation to improve casting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in Mechanical, Materials or Manufacturing Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of casting design experience.
• Ability to design solids in CAD (Catia, NX or 3DX).
• Ability to interpret simulation results (Magmasoft, Flow 3D, Procast, etc) and improve the casting design.
• 20% travel is required, local and international.

Responsibilities

• Create casting designs to integrate multiple parts into one casting.
• Develop business cases for proposed casting solutions for management’s consideration.
• Provide direction on design or process changes needed to optimize the casting process for maximum quality and cost efficiency.
• Support technical documentation including lessons learned, best practices, design rules, design requirements and keep them updated in the Ford internal system.
• Work with cross functional teams for vehicle packaging compliance and issue resolution.
• Support less experienced engineers in CAD, tooling design and on-site casting quality assessment for prototype part buy-off, including suggestions on how to improve the casting at a process or tooling level.
• Support external suppliers and tool shops with process and tooling verification prior to production startup.

Skills

CAD design

Simulation interpretation

Cross-functional collaboration

Casting design software

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Mechanical/Materials/Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

CATIA

NX

3DX

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a skilled Mechanical/Materials engineer to join the Product Development team in Dearborn. This role focuses on the design and development of structural HPDC components for BIW and frame projects, delivering casting concepts, gating systems, and manufacturability analyses.

You will collaborate with crash safety, durability, and NVH teams, provide technical support through execution and industrialization, and generate core engineering documentation to improve casting