About the role

  • Design Assurance DFMEA Engineer at Ford Motor Company enabling product robustness through DFMEA development and cross-functional coaching.

Responsibilities

  • Enable stronger product robustness and help prevent issue recurrence by coaching cross-functional program teams on DFMEA development, feature/system concern closure, and evidence-based control strategies.
  • Help teams translate lessons learned and chronic concerns into actionable DFMEA content, verify that requirements and test plans appropriately control risk, and accelerate closure of Feature Safety/Concern (S/C) and PAC-related work.
  • Drive DFMEA development using MagicDraw.
  • Partner with program teams to establish and execute an FMA plan covering: new technology introductions, chronic concerns / lessons learned, concerns/parts in the top quartile of 3MIS (as applicable).
  • Support application/Core DFMEA development across assigned programs.
  • Review DFMEAs and provide clear guidance on updates needed to improve risk identification, cause-to-control alignment, and completeness.

Requirements

  • Experience leading cross-functional teams.
  • Working knowledge of DFMEA best practices, including cause-effect relationships, severity/occurrence/detection thinking, and linkage to controls and verification
  • Ability to review and challenge requirements and test plans to ensure they control the risk described in the DFMEA
  • Familiarity with issue-prevention / recurrence-prevention methods (e.g., corrective action systems, lessons learned, concern tracking and closure discipline)
  • Comfort using (or willingness to learn) AI-assisted tools for engineering documentation review and quality workflows (DFMEA and SCCAF/SCCP reviews)
  • Strong collaboration, facilitation, and coaching skills—able to influence without relying solely on formal authority
  • Ability to manage multiple deliverables across programs and meet milestone-driven timing

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Design Assurance Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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