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Product Developmentuses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life.?We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!
This team prefers candidates able to work ONSITE from our Dearborn, MI office.
What you'll do...
• Lead Vehicle NVH airborne sensitivity sound package development, design verification, and issue resolution across multiple vehicle programs, through all phases of a program.
• Develop full vehicle sound package systems that meet vehicle airborne sensitivity targets, and are optimized for NVH performance, cost, and weight.
• Work closely with Design & Release team, Suppliers, Cross-Attribute NVH engineers (powertrain, road noise, wind noise, etc), CAE analytical team, and Program teams to design and implement sound package into vehicles.
• Create test plans and work with component-level and vehicle-level airborne sensitivity labs to prepare and execute tests.
• Analyze and summarize data to report out results and recommended next steps in technical reviews.
• Support vehicle-level drive evaluations to assess sound package proposals.
• Work will primarily be done on-site (i.e. not remote), collaborating with team members, working on parts and vehicles in the test garage and labs.
You'll have...
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering, or related field of study
3+ years of automotive industry experience with NVH and vehicle sound package development
2+ years experience with SEA modeling of sound package content
Proficiency in MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
Experience with 3D CAD systems (3DExperience or Teamcenter Visualization preferred)
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Highly motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to manage multiple workstreams concurrently.
Even better, you may have…
Master's Degree in Mechanical or Automotive Engineering, or related field of study
Familiarity with acoustic NVH materials (absorbers, blockers, mastic, etc)
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder…or 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
• 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.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:
https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-1.pdf
This position is a range of salary grades 6-8.
Relocation is available for this position.
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