As a Tire and Wheel Engineer, you will be responsible for final assembly’s Tire and Wheel build strategies. Must understand the fundamentals of a tire room and all the tooling involved with building a wheel assembly. They will be responsible for providing content to study leads for funding approvals and working with layout engineers to integrate tire rooms and tooling into cycle line layouts.
What you'll do:
- Design and develop tire and wheel strategies for final assembly- both insourcing and outsourcing depending on program
- Work with product development to ensure standard manufacturing process is being followed.
- Facilitate design review sessions and lead PFMEA activities
- Prepare and deliver technical presentations for tire and wheel strategies
- Design autocad layouts for tire rooms
- Provide content to study leads for funding approvals
- Deliver scopes of work to tooling suppliers while meeting date to green targets
- Issue purchase orders for tooling suppliers
- Support quality driven tire and wheel trials
- Support tooling design and build with supplier interface team
- Support launch and installation activities for tire rooms
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline.
- Travel required (25 up to 75%)
- Travel includes suppliers visits and North America final assembly plants
- Proven experience in manufacturing engineering and including autocad and layout design
- Proficiency in autocad
- Experience with tire rooms and tire & wheel build up
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work well with cross functional teams to develop consensus
Preferred Qualifications:
- Tooling knowledge, debug and troubleshooting experience
- Ability to program PLCs (Siemens and Allen-Brandley)
- Experience working with Tier 1 OEM suppliers and partners
- Manufacturing operations experience in general/final assembly
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!
What you'll receive in return:
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, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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:
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
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