Durability and Loads Engineer

Dearborn, MI - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 96720 - 162120

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

What Youll Do...
Be part of a Ford team responsible delivering vehicles that are Built Ford Tough. You will champion a team that works cross-functionally with all teams to deliver vehicles that are robust to our customers use.
You will track and report overall program durability health/readiness from concept to launch and beyond. Using the health data you will be responsible for ensuring milestone reporting requirement are met organize cross-functional teams to drive issue resolution and hold teams accountable to deliver against the addition you will complete tasks that support the durability attribute related to design loads cascading and loads analysis.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:
Act as a single point of contact for managing the durability attribute for a vehicle program.

Contribute to road load simulations to provide design loads for different vehicle systems such as chassis parts body structures powertrain mounts and many other systems.
Represent durability in architecture reviews and support the development of the architecture with an eye on durability performance and good loads management.
Support loads analysis studies during the virtual development of the vehicle to best tradeoff tuning ranges with other attributes like Vehicle Dynamics and NVH.
Monitor the CAE results from cascaded design loads and report out results through internal management reviews.
Assist CAE and D&R teams with how to best use loads for CAE studies and/or testing to include items like understanding generic standards strength and endurance concepts PSD analysis and simple block cycle development.
Lead pre-durability planning with support from colleagues lessons-learned from previous testing ensuring spare parts are handled and that the overall durability plan is aligned throughout the organization.
Develop and maintain the vehicle level durability verification plan and program durability health chart.
Durability Milestone assessments (Champion Program Design Reviews and Milestone). Be the voice of the Durability team to report out the state of full vehicle durability testing summaries for milestone status.
Interface with various functional and test teams to ensure test methods align with vehicle level test requirements and issues are captured raised and resolved.
Ensure all team deliver according to product development timing.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Engineeringor equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

5 years Road Loads Durability CAE Durability Attribute or Vehicle Attribute experience

Preferred Qualifications:
Masters degree in mechanical engineering

Strong experience in advanced road load simulations and design load development (ADAMS Matlab)
Experience with material strength and fatigue
Experience in interpreting road load measurements and lab test results
Familiarity with architectural tools (C123 CSE etc)
Programming Skills (e.g. MATLAB Python etc.)
Experience using SimCenter (LMS) TestLab nCode and Reliasoft
Familiarity with NASTRAN ABAQUS or OPTISTRUCT
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

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:

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 Years Day

Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $.

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DescriptionWhat Youll Do...Be part of a Ford team responsible delivering vehicles that are Built Ford Tough. You will champion a team that works cross-functionally with all teams to deliver vehicles that are robust to our customers use.You will track and report overall program durability health/read...