Hybrid Product Development Engineer, Structural Castings

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Product Development Engineer, Structural Castings
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $84,480 - $162,120 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• Product Development Engineer creating design solutions for structural castings at Ford. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize casting processes for quality and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Create casting designs to integrate multiple parts into one casting.
• Develop business cases for proposed casting solutions for management’s consideration
• Provide direction on design or process changes needed to optimize the casting process for maximum quality and cost efficiency.
• Support technical documentation including lessons learned, best practices, design rules, design requirements and keep them updated in the Ford internal system.
• Work with cross functional teams for vehicle packaging compliance and issue resolution
• Support less experienced engineers in CAD, tooling design and on-site casting quality assessment for prototype part buy-off, including suggestions on how to improve the casting at a process or tooling level.
• Support external suppliers and tool shops with process and tooling verification prior to production startup.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Mechanical, Materials or Manufacturing Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of casting design experience
• Ability to design solids in CAD (Catia, NX or 3DX)
• Ability to interpret simulation results (Magmasoft, Flow 3D, Procast, etc) and improve the casting design based on those.
• Proficiency in CAD
• Experience working in a foundry or tool shop launching castings or HPDC tools in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in large structural castings including Giga / Mega casting sizes
• Strong analytical and organizational skills and ability to manage several projects at the same time in a highly variable and uncertain environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
• Microsoft Office experience.

Benefits

• 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.