Ford Motor Company

Engineering Specialist-Dimensional Control Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $72K — $141K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
6 days ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma required, Bachelor's preferred.
  • Experience in manufacturing engineering is essential.
  • Demonstrated capability in meeting tasks and objectives successfully.
  • Proven problem-solving skills necessary.
  • Six Sigma Green Belt certification is a must.
  • Previous experience in production supervision is required.
  • Familiarity with CMM and various scanning technologies is beneficial.

Responsibilities

  • Build and monitor employee schedules and time cards to manage labor costs.
  • Delegate daily tasks to production staff and ensure necessary tools are available.
  • Provide constructive feedback to improve team performance and customer service.
  • Lead quality improvement initiatives within the production department.
  • Act as the liaison for quality issues between production and other departments.
  • Coordinate immediate actions regarding quality concerns and ensure follow-up checks.
  • Maintain thorough quality documentation and records for future reference.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage from day one.
  • Flexibility in family care and parental leave policies.
  • Employee vehicle discount programs for staff and family members.
  • Active involvement in employee resource groups promoting inclusion.
  • Paid time off dedicated to community service activities.
  • Generous holiday schedule, including a full week off between Christmas and New Year's.
  • Option to purchase additional vacation days beyond paid time off.
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

Apply engineering principles & analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Scheduling and Time Tracking: Building shifts, handling shift-swapping, managing employee time cards and monitoring hours to manage labor costs.
  • Task Delegation: Assigning specific daily duties, CMM room planning and ensuring workers have the tools they require.
  • Performance and Coaching: Providing ongoing, actionable feedback to improve speed, accuracy, and customer service.
  • Responsible for leading QOS initiatives within the production department.
  • Review with production team leaders and Process Coaches quality issues and be the point of contact with other departments such as Machining, Quality and MP&L.
  • Coordinate during quality concerns containment actions, dock holds, special checks to eliminate any impact to customer.
  • Keep traceability records regarding quality actions for future reference.
  • Manage quality documentation on FTT, 8Ds, Scrap, Dock Holds, Dock Audit, etc.
  • Participate in Quality and Contamination audits.
  • Prepare standard reports for Quality reviews within the plant and with other areas."
  • Review rejected parts for quality integrity and decide next steps.
  • Lead cross functional team initiatives in quality to achieve no faults forward / zero defects.
  • Lead 8D resolution of Warranty and VO concerns working together with Quality, MP&L, Machining and VO.
  • Coordinate Green and Black Belt projects within the department.
  • Work with QLSCM, Quality Works, OBL, CDCII and other required systems
  • Document and control error proofing checks, internal checks, and additional containments.
  • Participate in interplant benchmarking exercises
  • Actively participate in Simultaneous Engineering meetings, Forward Planning and Product Design to ensure MTC process is followed.
  • Apply engineering principles & analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products
  • Implement interim and permanent corrective actions to resolve quality issues using 8D tool, 6 panel, etc.
  • Manage and direct statistical process control activities
  • Knowledge of and ability to execute measurement systems analysis & variable data analysis
  • Establish and monitor quality target levels for each build
  • Provide input for design and assembly concepts which will yield nominal variations
  • Establish critical characteristics for gauging and measuring data collection methods
  • Determine inspection equipment and facility requirements
  • Support expedited concern resolution with cross functional teams including the Quality Department, Production and Suppliers
  • Review internal/external suppliers for critical characteristics process compatibility
  • Review incoming quality concerns to maintain quality with assigned area; must have experience with initiating containment, determining root cause and implementing corrective actions
  • Complete PPAP's and support new model launches


Qualifications

You'll have....

Education: High School Diploma

Experience:
  • Experience in manufacturing engineering
  • Demonstrated experience in accomplishing tasks and objectives
  • Proven problem solving ability
  • Six Sigma Green Belt certified
  • Previous production supervision
  • CMM, ATOS Blue Light Scanning, Creaform Hand Scanner, Polyworks basic knowledge
  • Microsoft Office Knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook)

Required Behaviors
  • Outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills
  • Proven critical thinker and troubleshooter to deliver industry leading quality
  • Highly committed to process improvement and innovative solutions with a customer-first mindset
  • Strong curiosity and passionate about continuous learning
  • Demonstrates inclusion and values diversity
  • Perseveres through setbacks and disappointments to drive results


Even Better, you may have....
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in related field
  • Experience: Previous automotive and Quality Engineering experience
  • FMEA, PPAP, and DOE experience preferred
  • Six Sigma: DMAIC and DMADV (DFSS) Project Methodology experience preferred
  • Ergonomic analysis knowledge and experience preferred
  • Six Sigma Black Belt certified preferred


You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • 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.
  • For a detailed look at our benefits, click here.


This position is a salary grade 6- 7 and ranges from $72,480-141,360.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

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Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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