Ford Motor Company

Manufacturing Engineer- Body Shop

Ford Motor Company$63K — $121K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical or equivalent manufacturing engineering
  • Minimum of 6 months of manufacturing experience, including internships
  • Willingness to travel extensively for launch activities across North America
  • 1+ years experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Up to 40-50% travel required during key project phases

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering efforts throughout new model development from concept to assembly
  • Develop tooling and facilities tailored to specific products and processes
  • Implement lean manufacturing principles for efficiency
  • Direct virtual manufacturing assembly builds and pre-launch trials
  • Resolve manufacturing issues promptly, ensuring timely project progress
  • Collaborate with design and release teams for seamless integration
  • Create assembly process instructions and manage documentation in the VPS system

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave options
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management lease options
  • Tuition assistance for ongoing education
  • Active employee resource groups fostering community
  • Generous paid time off policies, including holidays and community service days
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

In this key role, you will provide manufacturing engineering leadership throughout a new model development program - from initial concept through final assembly. This will involve the application of lean manufacturing principles to ensure the highest quality, most efficient processes and products possible. You will:
  • Provide manufacturing engineering leadership throughout a new model development program, beginning at initial concept through launch at the final assembly facility.
  • Development of tooling and facilities based on product and process.
  • Apply lean manufacturing principles.
  • Lead virtual manufacturing assembly builds.
  • Drive resolution of manufacturing issues.
  • Interface with Design and Release activities.
  • Develop formal assembly process instructions and enter the process sheets into VPS system.
  • Lead assembly tooling specification purchase, installation, start-up, and commissioning at the assembly site.
  • Track all open tooling and process issues and drive to closure including meeting all exit criteria deliverables - cycle time, throughput, workstation readiness, etc.
  • Prepare management presentations.
  • Drive quality, cost and labor improvements.
  • Support new model launches. During launches, the position will require extensive travel, standing, and walking in a plant environment.
  • Deliver dimensionally in-spec parts for their respective system. Understand component data and a system impact.
  • Deliver cycle line layouts and work with the assembly plants to have a complete operator/equipment workstation ready for launch.
  • Operate in stressful situations within timing constraints
  • Work with minimal direct supervision


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical or an equivalent manufacturing engineering
  • Minimum of 6 months of manufacturing experience, including internships.
  • Willingness to travel and support launch activities at our North American Assembly plants (USA, Canada & Mexico)
  • Travel is required including co-location at a North American Assembly plant for 9 or more months depending on scale of vehicle launch.
  • 1 or more years of Microsoft Office experience to include Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Up to 40-50% travel required
    Even better, you may have...
  • Solid background with virtual manufacturing tools
  • Experience with tooling, process, quality, and or facility equipment in a production environment.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Working knowledge of statistics (control charts, data collecting, etc.)


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 a salary grade 5-6 and ranges from $63,480-121,440.,

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/GSR

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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About Ford Motor Company

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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183,000 employees
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$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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