Ford Motor Company

Ford Racing Body Engineering Supervisor

Ford Motor Company • $115K — $218K *
Allen Park, MI 48101In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • B.S. in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • 10+ years as a Body Exterior Design and Release Engineer or similar role
  • 6+ years of experience in Body Structures and/or Exterior Ornamentation
  • Expert knowledge of products and supply chain including various manufacturing processes
  • Demonstrated expertise in BIW attributes such as Safety and Durability
  • Proficient in engineering toolsets like FEDE, CAE/CATIA, TCE, 3DX
  • Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and mentoring skills

Responsibilities

  • Guide and mentor team of engineers and subject matter experts
  • Ideate with cross-functional teams to create innovative solutions
  • Lead the development of new strategic designs and innovations
  • Collaborate with CAE team to refine simulation methods
  • Optimize designs ensuring compliance with regulations
  • Develop and implement novel construction techniques
  • Create verification plans and test methods for designs
  • Facilitate communication across departments for optimal solutions

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program
  • Tuition assistance for continued education
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service
  • Generous paid holiday schedule including the week between Christmas and New Year's
  • Option to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • You are a Body Structures & Vehicle Exterior Leader as a subject matter expert set to deliver the most cutting edge design and push the limits of innovation at Ford Racing to deliver the next generation vehicles our customers love!
  • You are expected to be a flexible leader who can balance multiple activities in rapidly changing environment to guide your team through the full engineering development cycle from Pre-program through Launch on an excited new program for Ford Racing!
  • You and your team own the development, authorship, sign-off and maintenance of all foundational engineering decisions from Body structures through exterior ornamentation.
  • You will be building a team to deliver high-quality, low-investment solutions leaning on and working with technical experts in the company to bring new technologies for this exciting new product for Ford Motor Company and Ford Racing to support future architectures.


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Guide and mentor your team of engineers & subject matter experts (SMEs) to drive speed and innovation to this new product for Ford Racing
  • Ideate with cross-functional engineers, designers/studio, and other teams in creating new solutions for Ford Racing on this and future applications
  • Lead cross-functional team to innovate, develop and deliver new / strategic designs, leveraging CAE and benchmarking our competition to be industry leading
  • Close cooperation with CAE-team in refinement of simulation and correlation methods
  • Optimize the concepts and designs with analytical and physical assessments (including generative design tools), ensuring conformation to federal regulations governing assigned systems
  • Develop, study and implement novel construction techniques and drive them to production feasibility
  • Create component and subsystem design verification plans and test methods
  • Enable effective communications with Vehicle Architecture, Advanced Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supplier activities to deliver optimal design solutions
  • Support presentations of concepts and status to senior management and internally to company personnel
  • Lead the Body Exterior design, development, engineering, validation, and certification on a subset of Ford Racing Production vehicles
  • Lead the total Body Exterior system integration and program delivery of Quality, Cost, Weight, Function and Timing (QCWFT)
  • Lead FSS (Full Service Suppliers) and/or other internal/external resources to deliver subject programs
  • Lead development of component & system designs that support vehicle performance targets (key systems include hood, fenders, bumper fascias FR/RR, grilles, vents, splitters, spoilers, ducts, belly pan/diffusers)
  • Assure conformance to the Ford Racing DNA all applicable Ford & regulatory requirements
  • Develop innovative solutions for performance vehicles


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • B.S. in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related physical science field of study
  • 10+ years as a Body Exterior Design and Release Engineer or similar experience
  • 6+ years' experience with job responsibilities specific to Body Structures and/or Exterior Ornamentation (Metal stamping, exterior panels, grilles, etc.)
  • Demonstrated expert level knowledge of products and supply base, including stampings, assembly, extrusions, castings, joining and regulatory items
  • Demonstrated expert level BIW attribute delivery including: Safety, Durability, Corrosion, NVH, TASE, BIW Requirements and others
  • Experience in all program phases from Pre-Program through Launch including one major (scale 4-6) program
  • Working knowledge of applicable Design, Analysis, Verification, Quality, Manufacturing, and Assembly methods
  • Working knowledge and experience with Engineering toolset - FEDE, CAE / CATIA, TCE, 3DX
  • Excellent written / verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated track record of strong leadership behaviors
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Demonstrated capability to teach / coach / mentor and document technical knowledge
  • Self-starter - ability to work effectively with little oversight

Even better, you may have...
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering or a related physical science field of study
  • Experience presenting at Technical Conferences and Publishing Technical Papers
  • Patents / Invention, Defensive Disclosures / Trade Secrets and/or Technical Publications
  • Experience with Advanced Technology development (GTDS) - particularly advancing mixed material system solutions
  • Experience with GPDS and GTDS processes, timing and delivery requirements
  • Experience writing DFMEA's, SCCAF's, Engineering Specifications, Requirements, Design Rules or equivalent Core documents
  • Multiple automotive launches

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, 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.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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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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