
Industrialization Design and Release Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $107,661 - $164,372 per year
About the role
- Lead 3D wire harness routing using Catia and Siemens NX for space, serviceability, and design.
- Translate system requirements into logical and physical schematics, ensuring representing circuits, signal flow, and component interconnections.
- Optimize design and partner with CAE to run circuit analysis simulations, identifying performance, thermal, and EMC issues.
- Develop design strategies to optimize manufacturability, assembly efficiency, and serviceability to reduce costs.
- Develop critical program-specific documentation including boundary diagrams and DFMEA for traceability, risk, and compliance.
- Lead development of manufacturing prints with Full-Service Supplier Partner.
- Define and manage wire harness family complexity, optimizing part numbers to streamline efficiency.
- Utilize common design principles and component standardization across vehicle programs.
- Create clear installation illustrations to facilitate efficient installation and maintenance.
- Establish and maintain a robust design version control system, maintaining a clear audit trail.
- Conduct thorough design reviews with Systems Engineering, Manufacturing or Quality, providing feedback to ensure designs meet requirements.
- Manage APQP for electrical components and wire harnesses to ensure suppliers meet requirements.
- Review pre-production and prototype vehicles to resolve electrical design issues and prevent recalls or warranty costs.
- Represent electrical design and industrialization team at vehicle prototype build events, provide on-site support, resolve design issues, and track in JIRA.
- Lead investigation and resolution of warranty issues, using AWS data to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
- Lead cost analysis of EDS components to reduce costs and optimize manufacturing.
- Define pinouts/terminal sizing for in-line connectors.
- Provide technical support in selecting fuse sizes, wire gauges and types, ensuring overcurrent protection and minimizing voltage drop.
- Configure power distribution and grounding.
- Assign and define electrical circuit options for vehicle configurations.
- Lead electrical compatibility reviews of EDS designs and sign off wire harness prints.
- Manage logical design data in Catia and Teamcenter to ensure data integrity, traceability, and security.
- Domestic and International Travel Required up to 20%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
- 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Review 3D CAD for design validation of electrical wiring and components.
- 2. Review CAE reports to ensure proper system functions Design for Manufacturing (DFM) & Design for Assembly (DFA).
- 3. Identify and solve root cause of complex electrical system vehicle level concerns during prototype build phases.
- 4. Review vehicle wiring schematics for accuracy.
- 5. Verify wiring harness reliability with exposure to heat, cold, corrosion, moisture and other environmental factors.
- 6. Perform wire harness complexity analysis to ensure all buildable combinations are covered.
- 7. Implement wire harness updates based on campaign prevent reviews.
- 8. Develop and implement cost reduction ideas.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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
3D wire harness routingCatiaSiemens NXcircuit analysisDFMEAmanufacturing printsdesign version controlelectrical circuit optionspower distributionwire harness complexity analysis
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationattention to detailanalytical thinkingproject managementtechnical supportfeedback provisioncost analysis
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Electronics EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering