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Ford Pro · 3 days ago

PVT Engineer - OHAP

650 Miller Rd, Avon Lake, OH, 44012, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Ford Pro is part of Ford Motor Company, focused on redefining transportation. They are seeking a Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) Engineer to analyze and resolve quality issues in vehicle production at the Ohio Assembly Plant.

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Responsibilities

Own cascaded functional quality objectives (R/1000 and CPU). Cut-off and contain issues before they leave assembly plants. Solve chronic and acute quality issues to establish real corrective actions

Lead Issue Resolution and Insights System (IRIS) warranty binning and analysis. Contact dealers to gather repair understanding. Use sound engineering judgement to help review part returns and determine next steps

Support the Variability Reduction Team (VRT) meetings with manufacturing co-leads

Support and present issue findings in quality forums, including Functional Quality Reviews (FQR), Director Quality Reviews (DQR), plant quality meetings, and Vehicle Quality Reviews (VQR) as required

Prepare functional problem-solving documents to support issue resolution with cross-functional team members (CCC 6-Panel, 8-D, 5 Why, Fishbone, etc.)

Supplier support - timing plans, PPAP review, robustness actions both for Ford and to help reduce quality rejects (QRs). Lead is Ford’s Supplier Technical Assistant (STA) Resident or STA Central Quality

Supplier QOS support - includes regular supplier site visits for key/ problem suppliers. Lead is STA Central Quality, along with Site STA

Stop Ship support and prevention: Identify issues, coordinate subject matter experts, advise severity and next steps/containment, interface with Ford’s critical concern review group (CCRG). Prepare repair procedures for units contained at the assembly plant

SIMPSN (6-Sigma / 8D) project lead and Problem Resolution for low time in service warranty (except Supplier Quality)- communication and coordination with VFG/Plant/Others, author projects, manage implementation, calculate impact, manage function warranty forecast

STA support - help review 8Ds on select high-impact issues, help author BSAQ projects and close them out, advise and monitor supplier robustness changes. Lead is STA Central Quality

Plant issues - support/provide IQ direction (what/where to measure, etc), process walk support and advise QOSC/QPIP, ICA implementation until permanent corrective action (PCA) is available. PCA lead will be the design & release (D&R) engineer for Design, STA for Supplier Quality, and the VRT for plant-related issues

Support Plant FTT improvements

Lead in-plant trials for design driven Engineering Change Notice (ECN) changes and assess impact to quality and production. Provide input as part of PPAP completion

Lead in-plant trials for supplier driven changes and assess impact to quality and production. Provide input back to component suppliers as part of PPAP completion

Review and sign-off on supplier requests for component changes (SREA), run trials as required

TVM support (ECN, trials, issue clean up, PPAP completion) PPAP

Major launch - Support launch team prior to OKTB + 30 days and transition to lead on issue resolution post OKTB + 30 days

Minor launch - May lead some selected small-scale programs/added starters upon agreement with OPD/PVT Leadership

AIMS/DEMS - Lead for minor launches, support for major launches and take the lead after OKTB