Ford Motor Company

Packaging Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $72K — $162K *
Allen Park, MI 48101In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Packaging or Supply Chain
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams and prioritize under tight timelines
  • Superb written, visual, and verbal communication skills
  • Strong detail-oriented mindset with excellent memory retention
  • Proven leadership and team collaboration skills
  • Experience interacting with diverse organizational levels

Responsibilities

  • Identify, forecast, and optimize capital spending for new model programs
  • Collaborate with various teams to develop cost-effective solutions
  • Serve as the main contact for Packaging Engineering studies and internal reviews
  • Support and present at program milestone meetings, explaining cost factors
  • Create best-in-class container concepts using 3D CAD tools
  • Present handoff materials to guide Packaging Implementation teams accordingly
  • Drive improvements in pack density and container design for efficiency
  • Develop new predictive tools for accurate project milestone forecasts

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave programs
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and their families
  • Tuition assistance for professional development
  • Paid time off for community service contributions
  • Generous holiday schedule including a break between Christmas and New Year's Day
  • Options to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

Packaging Engineering is looking for a Design & Planning Engineer to support Model-E, Ford Blue and Ford Pro Vehicle Operations new model programs.

The successful candidate must have a passion for automobiles and manufacturing and can develop cross-functional solutions to complex problems. Packaging Design & Planning engineers lead Ford in 3D CAD and PLM capability and can rapidly generate vehicle design alternatives to solve packaging and material flow challenges. Our engineers have a strong attention to detail and the ability to retain intricate details, from memory, across several programs. You must be willing to maintain a can-do attitude with very limited inputs and use deductive reasoning and industry trends to develop accurate forecasts for early milestones.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Identify, forecast, and optimize capital spending for new model programs based on limited inputs
  • Work extensively with the Packaging Engineering Implementation teams, Material Flow, Material Logistics, Vehicle Operations, Manufacturing, Stamping, Ergonomics, Product Development, and the Design Studio to achieve lowest total cost solutions
  • Act as the single point of contact for Packaging Engineering, for your assigned studies, including coordinating department responses and internal reviews
  • Support all study meetings, including program milestone and touchpoint reviews, and be comfortable presenting/explaining cost drivers and opportunities to upper management
  • Develop feasible, affordable, best-in-class, container concepts (3D models) using 3DX, CATIA and other proprietary tools
  • Following program approval, develop and present handoff materials to direct the Packaging Implementation teams on the approved plan of action and allocated finances
  • Drive improvements in pack density and container design to achieve MP&L freight and investment efficiency objectives
  • Develop new tools and methods to identify and predict trends to ensure accurate forecasts from pre- to milestones


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Packaging or Supply Chain
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams, a challenging workload, competing priorities, and aggressive timelines
  • Superb written, visual and verbal communication skills
  • Be a team player, willing to assist your peers as required
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, with a strong memory for details
  • Demonstrated leadership behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills
  • Demonstrated experience working with all levels of an organization
  • Experience working collaboratively on teams and driving issues to resolution


Even better, you may have...

  • Prior experience with program milestone manufacturing cost studies (preferred)
  • Prior experience (preferred, not required) with 3D CAD/PLM software (3DX, CATIA and Teamcenter)


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 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 childcare 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.
  • For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRnon-HTHD
  • This position is a grade 6-8, ranging from $72,480-$162,120.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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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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