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High Voltage Systems Engineer-Battery

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Ford’s Model E team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. Model e is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...

Electrification is a key part of Ford's future automotive growth. This is an opportunity to be a part of the team that carving out the future success of the company's long-term vision.

What you'll do...

High Voltage Battery design is a relatively new area of design, so opportunities abound to make big impacts with intelligent engineering design and creativity.

• Lead Systems Engineering Unit deliverables for next generation HV battery design

• Define and maintain pack level requirements for battery controls, internal mechanical, electrical components (HV Contactors/EDS), battery cells, and thermal performance

• Develop battery level DFMEA including implementations to manage severity and/or occurrence

• Define test plans to validate all requirements and functional performance

• Lead design trade-offs between thermal, packaging, NVH, and hardware/software solutions

• Coordinate cross-functional solutions across component Design & Release teams to achieve pack system level requirements and objectives.

• Support all quality documents required for manufacturing builds, PPAP, shipping, labeling, test requirements, etc.

• Interface with HV Battery test team to validate all requirements and key functional performance, including post-crash pack teardown

• Troubleshoot battery component and in-vehicle systems

You'll have…

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Minimum B.S.E.E/B.S.M.E., preferred M.S.E.E./M.S.M.E.)

• System engineering experience desired

• D&R experience including manufacturing plant launch preferred

• Experience in Ford WERS/AVBOM/AIMS/FEDE/GPDS/Integrator systems desired

• Working level knowledge of CAD/CAE with an ability to coordinate CAD support

• Proactive, self-motivated, and attention to detail

• Strong teamwork, organizational, oral communication, and written communication skills

• Strong leadership skills, able to effectively interact with multiple internal and external stakeholders

• Proven ability to handle multiple assignments with competing priorities

• Minimal travel expected (supplier sites for PPAP if required, battery assembly build sites if required).

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

• 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD

This position is a salary grade 7.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Requisition ID : 31674