Manager – Wheels, Tires, Jacks
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Lead a department of people responsible for delivering Wheels, Tires, and Jacks globally.
- Lead Design and Release Engineering, Program Control, Development, & Verification activities.
- Lead execution and industrialization of internally designed and externally manufactured wheels and jacks and externally designed and manufactured tires.
- Evaluate vehicle inputs and attribute assumptions, against wheel and tire designs and tradeoffs to achieve best in industry execution, manage system interactions with vehicle.
Requirements
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or related degree.
- 5 years of wheel, tire and jack design and release execution through the GPDS process.
- MS in Mechanical Engineering or related degree (even better).
- Knows the ideal function, noise factors, error states, and control factors specific to wheels and tires.
- Has proven delivery of balanced Quality/Cost/Weight/Function/Timing attributes.
- Understands and can lead a team through GPDS program gateways and deliverables, and flex / adjust appropriately to balance risks to delivery in non-standard program timing.
- Experience in Systems Design, Program Control, Testing, and Component design and delivery preferred.
- A clear communicator and highly motivated to exceed expectations in a constantly changing product landscape.
- Understand upfront design, verification plan and methods, and industrialization process.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Mechanical EngineeringDesign EngineeringRelease EngineeringProgram ControlDevelopmentVerificationSystems DesignComponent DesignGPDS processIndustrialization
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationMotivationAdaptabilityTeam ManagementProblem SolvingQuality ManagementRisk ManagementTime ManagementCollaboration
Certifications
BS in Mechanical EngineeringMS in Mechanical Engineering