About the job
Job Description
Candidate should lead workstreams to address brake controls quality issues that may include assembly plant constraints, supplier issues or design opportunities.
Should work side to side with design and release engineers from multiple commodities including software to find root cause for each quality issue.
Must understand and track quality metrics t develops a plan to meet targets.
Responsibilities
At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
About The Team
Ford Product Development is utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that will delight our customers. Our employees are laser-focused on bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. From autonomy and electrification, to smart mobility technologies, our Product Development teams around the world are working together with excitement to make smart vehicles for a smart world.
Candidate should lead workstreams to address brake controls quality issues that may include assembly plant constraints, supplier issues or design opportunities.
Should work side to side with design and release engineers from multiple commodities including software to find root cause for each quality issue.
Must understand and track quality metrics t develops a plan to meet targets.
Responsibilities
- Track and keep up to date quality data.
- Team leader to address quality issues.
- Understand how quality data is reported (warranty internal metrics) and manage different quality systems to address issues on time.
- Work on preventive actions to avoid quality issues in the future.
- Identify main quality offenders and develop a strong plan to address them.
- Lead quality issues investigation with application engineers, manufacturing engineers and Suppliers
- Understand brake controls specs and modules interaction - communication.
- Work side to side with Ford service team to implement updates to service manuals and documents to improve customers satisfaction.
- Bachelor’s degree in mechatronics, automotive, mechanical, software or electronic engineering or similar.
- Brake engineering experience desired.
- Advanced English language.
- Quality background including experience using problem solving methods like 8Ds, Six Sigma, 5Why.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to lead group projects, issue resolution, and management reviews.
- Strong leadership skills – inherent self-starter, self-motivated, with strong drive for results.
- Sense of urgency.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Software and communication network knowledge desired.
- Project management skills - capable of managing projects by looking both at the big picture objectives and at detail administration to achieve these objectives.
- Ability to travel and support Ford Motor Company final assembly plants and supplier sites as required.
- Able to work in unfamiliar and unstructured situations and succeed.
At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
About The Team
Ford Product Development is utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that will delight our customers. Our employees are laser-focused on bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. From autonomy and electrification, to smart mobility technologies, our Product Development teams around the world are working together with excitement to make smart vehicles for a smart world.
