Ford Motor Company

Ford Racing Engineering Supervisor, Additive Manufacturing

Ford Motor Company • $115K — $218K *
Allen Park, MI 48101In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelors in Engineering
  • Deep Practical Additive Manufacturing experience
  • Practical Design and Release experience for automotive components
  • Self-starter, highly motivated for success
  • Passion for winning and intolerance for failure
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with decision-making skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead the proliferation of Additive Manufacturing within Ford Racing applications
  • Identify specific uses for Additive technologies in the organization
  • Develop and deliver KPIs for Ford Racing Additive Manufacturing
  • Drive internal projects with a focus on design for manufacturing
  • Serve as single-point-of-contact for external partners and initiatives
  • Coordinate program requirements with functional teams
  • Participate in site visits for benchmarking and optional partner visits

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service and generous holiday schedule
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • Identifying areas within the existing business to utilize Additive Manufacturing to improve timing for development cycles or investment avoidance
  • Identifying areas within our future business to utilize Additive Manufacturing to optimize designs for mass or other attributes
  • Using specific targeted applications, influence which technologies Ford should invest in or partner on.


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • You Will Lead The Overall Proliferation Of Additive Manufacturing within Ford Racing on both Motorsports and Road Car applications in the following ways:
    • Strategic Approach To The Business
      • By identifying specific uses for Additive technologies in the organization, grow internal capability by influencing which new Additive Technologies to pursue as a company including purchase of new capital equipment
      • Design the principles to determine which projects and technologies should be pursued by Ford Racing through internal and external capabilities
      • Identify strategic partnerships for equipment and outsourced capability.
      • Develop and deliver on key performance indicators (KPIs) for Ford Racing Additive Manufacturing efforts to appropriately measure growth
    • Drive and Facilitate Ford Racing Internally-Led Projects
      • Develop and lead a small team that will become the center-of-excellence for Additive Manufacturing technologies to guide D&R engineers through the design for manufacturing process and product launch.
      • Near term, work with Design and Release (D&R) engineers and development engineers to identify areas where Additive Manufacturing can help our in-flight programs by speeding up evaluation of design iterations or avoidance of capital spend for production tools.
      • Near term, work with D&R engineers and Architecture team to target specific systems, sub-systems, or components for Additive technologies in the up-front stage of future programs.
      • Longer term, take over coordination efforts of all existing Additive Manufacturing efforts for F1 Powertrain applications.
    • Represent Ford Racing In Externally (Non Ford Racing) Led Projects
      • Be single-point-of-contact for external partners to determine the appropriate involvement for Ford Racing on various corporate initiatives.
      • Coordinate efforts with appropriate program and functional teams as required.
      • Communicate program requirements (functional, timing, financials) to the external partners to ensure a path to success.
    • Travel - Limited in beginning to site visits for benchmarking. Opportunities for more optional travel may exist if desired (supplier or partner visits, etc). All Ford facilities are currently in Southeast Michigan.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelors in Engineering
  • Deep Practical Additive Manufacturing experience including:
    • Design for Additive Manufacturing
    • Build set-up including orientation, support development, and slicing decisions
    • Build execution including machine set-up and part production,
    • Quality confirmation through various post-build scans or measurements
  • Practical Design and Release experience for automotive components. Must have basic understanding of the product development process and able to work intelligently with engineers
  • Self starter, highly motivated for success
  • Passion for winning that will not accept excuses for failure
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, able to make decisions based on overall value analysis

Even better, you may have...
  • Masters of Engineering and/or Masters of Engineering Management and/or Masters of Manufacturing Engineering
  • Previous or current experience leading salary technical personnel
  • Extensive knowledge of other (non-Additive) manufacturing technologies for reference when determining whether Additive Manufacturing is appropriate for a particular application
  • Enthusiast background, with passion for enthusiast products or motorsports.


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

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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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Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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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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