Prototype Vehicle Instrumentation Analyst

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In this position...

Ford Motor Company is backfilling the Prototype Vehicle Instrumentation Analyst position specializing in prototype vehicle instrumentation to support the Instrumentation and Garage Serivces team embedded onsite at the Roush 9 facility. The analyst would work to deliver on-time and high-quality instrumented vehicles to support program milestones for prototype testing.

This is an onsite position in Allen Park, MI.

You'll have...

Associates Degree in Science, Automotive, or relevant field, or equivalent experience.

3+ years of instrumentation experience in an automotive domain.

Even better, you may have...

Proficiency in using Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Powerpoint.

Strong written and oral communication skills.

Collaboration and teamwork skills.

Strongly preferred mechanical and electrical technical skillsets.

Innovation mindset and driver of change.

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 childcare 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.

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This position is a range of salary grades SG6-SG8.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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What you'll do...

• Manage vehicle instrumentation installation at Roush 9 and New Model Programs Development Center (NMPDC) to support build and post-build instrumentation needs.
• Work seamlessly with onsite Ford team and Roush coordination and planning to ensure units are properly prepared and prepped correctly to satisfy customer instrumentation and mechanical needs.
• Drive quality through process improvements and requestor feedback loop.
• Support instrumentation interview process for requestors to ensure all requirements are accurately captured in the Instrumentation Requirements List (IRL).
• Support Rest of World (FOA, China, FOE, FOM, Brazil) instrumentation needs and develop work plan to contain at R9. Work to improve onsite instrumentation processes globally.
• Investigate and make recommendations for new technologies and processes for instrumentation and garage services.
• Manage the IMaster instrumentation planning and web-based tool and process and support the IRL database.
• Review and approve incoming work orders in VDO to ensure timely delivery of requests.
• Support DV efficiency and VEV Lean workstreams.