Durability Engineer

Durability Engineer

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In this position...

Be part of a Ford team responsible delivering vehicles that are "Built Ford Tough." You will champion a team that works cross-functionally with all teams to deliver vehicles that are robust to our customers' use.

You will track and report overall program durability health/readiness from concept to launch and beyond. Using the health data, you will be responsible for ensuring milestone reporting requirement are met, organize cross-functional teams to drive issue resolution and hold teams accountable to deliver against the requirements. In addition, you will complete tasks that support the durability attribute related to design loads cascading and loads analysis.

You'll have...

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

• 5+ years Road Loads, Durability CAE, Durability Attribute, or Vehicle Attribute experience

Even better, you may have...

• Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

• Experience with material strength and fatigue

• Experience in interpreting tested data

• Familiarity with architectural tools (C123, CSE, etc)

• Programming Skills (e.g. MATLAB, Python, etc.)

• Experience using SimCenter (LMS) TestLab, nCode and Reliasoft

• Familiarity with capabilities of MSC ADAMS, NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or OPTISTRUCT

• Possess a growth mindset and desire to work in fast-paced and highly technical environment

• Highly motivated and proactive, with exceptional attention to detail

• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with strong communication and teamwork skills

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.

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This position is a range of salary grades Grade 7-8 .

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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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 #LI-MD2

What you'll do...

• Act as single point of contact for program Durability

• Pre-Durability Planning - Lessons learned, spare parts, competitive benchmarking

• Drive the development and cascade durability targets. Develop design loads as part of a team to cascade in early phases of the program and support load analysis studies during CAE design phases and verification phase.

• Develop/ maintain Vehicle Level Durability Verification Plan

• Interface w/ proving grounds and labs for tracking, raising and resolving issues.

• Champion Durability Milestone assessments (Program Design Reviews, and Milestone)

• Develop and maintain a program durability health chart.

• Provide durability program readiness for OK to buy Matrix.

• Champion Program durability issue resolution/closure

• Interface with various functional and test teams to ensure test (method) aligns with vehicle level requirements, and issues are captured, raised and resolved.

• Lead regular Director level Durability risk assessments.

• Ensure all teams deliver according to product development timing.