Ford Motor Company

Product Development Engineer - Chassis Brakes Engineer

Ford Motor Company$65K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (ME or EE) required, graduate degree preferred
  • Strong leadership skills with a self-starter mentality
  • Experience in design and release of components
  • Project management capability with attention to detail
  • Excellent oral/written communication skills
  • Ability to thrive in unfamiliar and unstructured environments
  • Proficient in MS Office, CAD (Catia/Team Center), and engineering tools
  • Background in functional engineering, particularly chassis or automotive-related work

Responsibilities

  • Design and package foundation brake systems and components
  • Lead component and system design, validating brake performance
  • Manage supplier delivery and performance effectively
  • Act as a leader and representative of brake engineering
  • Ensure overall system performance, cost, and quality meet specified standards

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility support
  • Employee discounts on vehicles and management leases
  • Tuition assistance and employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service and generous holiday schedule
  • Options to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position you will be tasked with...

  • Empowered Engineering Assignment featuring: project management, decision making, problem solving, and leadership development
  • Experience with global platform engineering
  • Design and Release of Brake Hardware


Responsibilities

Position Duties

The Chassis Brakes Engineer is responsible for delivery of foundation brake systems and components. Responsibilities include the design and package of components, overall system performance, cost and quality.

The engineer leads component and system design and development, validating and signing-off all key brake performance and attribute requirements.

The engineer manages supplier delivery and performance.

He or she serves as a leader and representative of brake engineering to interfacing organizations.

Qualifications

Position Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (ME or EE) Required, Graduate Degree in Engineering (ME or EE)

    Desirable
  • Strong leadership skills - inherent self-starter, self-motivated, with strong drive for results.
  • Design & Release of Components
  • Project management skills - Capable of managing projects by looking both at the big picture objectives and at detail administration to achieve these objectives.
  • Strong oral/written communication skills to lead group projects, issue resolution, and management reviews
  • Able to work in unfamiliar and unstructured situations and succeed
  • Computer-literate. Proficiency in MS Office/Outlook: Excel; Word, PowerPoint, CAD (Catia / Team Center) exposure, etc.
  • Experiences in functional engineering desirable, preferably chassis or automotive-related work experience (Ford, OEM or supplier)
  • Recognized in prior work assignments for demonstrated performance
  • Demonstrated proficiency in engineering disciplines preferred: DVP&R, DFMEA, 8D, Process Controls, Reliability, and System Engineering Fundamentals
  • Ability to travel and support Ford Motor Company final assembly plants and supplier sites, when required, during project delivery


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 through 8. Salary can range from $65,100 - $166,200.
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
#VehicleHardwareEngineering #LI-KH2

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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Net Income
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Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
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