Hybrid Steering System Design and Release Engineer

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Steering System Design and Release Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $63,480 - $106,680 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Assembly
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• Steering System Engineer developing and validating steering systems for Ford vehicles. Involved in design reviews, integration, and ensuring system durability and quality across engineering deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Leads delivery of new mechanical Steering component designs including, cost, quality, weight, and functional requirements.
• Ensures on-time delivery of all Engineering deliverables per Ford’s Global Product Development System.
• Utilizes the design space in its entirety to deliver Steering sub-system and component designs that are optimized/efficient, utilize common components where appropriate, and are compatible with mating and adjacent systems.
• Leads Functional/Durability Requirement implementation, validation, and vehicle integration of Power Steering Systems with a focus on ensuring overall safe system/vehicle operation.
• Conducts/Leads design reviews and analysis including system functionality, mechanical hardware reviews, and Failure Mode & Effects Analysis reviews (FMEA).
• Manages steering supplier to achieve program milestone deliverables for the overall system function.
• Ensures manufacturing processes conform to Ford standards and known best practices.
• Authors and publishes component/system engineering specifications.
• Develops and executes validation test plans and evaluates results to track conformance to part specification.
• Manages cross functional teams to implement permanent corrective actions as well as immediate containment for all issues.
• Generates executive summaries, technical proposals, reports, and presentations for status reviews.
• Reviews existing benchmarking data and obtains new data as required to assure best possible new designs.
• Executes running changes via Engineering Change Request (CR) and reviews/approves relevant Supplier Requests for Engineering Approval (SREA).
• Interfaces with VO as partners to ensure design for assembly.
• Resolves durability issues.
• Resolves quality issues post Job 1.
• Conducts vehicle level testing for system validation.
• Leads issue investigations including vehicle data collection and root cause analysis.
• Collaborates with Vehicle Engineering and Driver Assistance Feature Engineers to ensure optimal steering and feature performance.

Requirements

• BS Engineering- Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering or strongly related.
• 2+ years of steering system experience in an automotive domain or similar.
• MS degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering or strongly related (even better).
• Experience applying Systems Engineering.
• Prior D&R experience with proven track record of successful program delivery.
• Familiarity with fault management & diagnostic strategies of Electronic Power Steering Systems (EPS).
• Troubleshooting experience with mechanical and electromechanical systems.
• Familiarity with Vector CANAPE and CANalyzer MATLAB and Simulink.
• Familiarity with CAN communication and databases.
• Effective communications and project management skills.
• Strong leadership skills, passion for problem solving, passion for quality, passion to improve customer satisfaction.
• Effective use of engineering problem solving methods (8D, 3x5 Whys, Fishbone Analysis, etc.).
• Natural and comfortable with high levels of a multi-functional collaboration.
• Effective teamwork skills.

Benefits

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