Hybrid Design and Release Engineer – Wire Harnesses

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Design and Release Engineer – Wire Harnesses
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $72,480 - $162,120 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Livonia, United States

About the role

• Design and engineer wire harnesses for vehicles at Ford, ensuring quality and on-time delivery of components. Collaborate with engineering teams and suppliers to innovate and optimize designs.

Responsibilities

• Develop wire harnesses to meet vehicle level cascaded requirements
• Collaborate with vehicle and system engineering groups to optimize and deliver system hardware solutions
• Lead delivery and documentation of all development milestones for transmission systems and components
• Manage wire harness timing to ensure on time and quality delivery to all vehicle builds
• Coordinate design verification testing for wire harness components and ensure all results are documented
• Coordinate with suppliers to understand root cause analysis with ongoing production
• Coordinate with transmission plants to understand ongoing production related questions
• Develop and maintain main control system level quality documents including boundary diagrams, p-diagrams, DFMEA
• Support system level competitive benchmarking and reports
• Integrate lessons learned from previous programs

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Electrical or Mechanical) or related field
• 2+ years in Automotive design preferably with wire harnesses
• Good academic knowledge of electrical systems
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple tasks and multiple vehicle platforms
• Be curious and ask questions
• Present in office 4 days per week
• Ability to tear down components that have come back from the field
• Ability to travel to suppliers for plant visits as well as GEMBA style events

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid 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.