About the role

  • Durability Engineer working with Ford on vehicle durability attributes from concept to production. Championing cross-functional teams to ensure vehicle robustness and reliability during testing.

Responsibilities

  • Act as single point of contact for Program Durability
  • Pre-Durability Planning - Lessons learned, spare parts, competitive benchmarking
  • Cascade durability targets, develop road load support plans, and help develop road load cascades for vehicle systems through use of simulation tools.
  • 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. As needed, directly support durability issue resolution or verification with detailed loads analysis, simulations, or road load measurement support to be an active part of the root cause and/or verification team.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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 with MSC ADAMS in loads simulation, Familiarity with NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or OPTISTRUCT
  • Experience in road load data collection, use of road load data, and/or 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
  • 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

Benefits

  • 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.

Job title

Durability Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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