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Ford Motor Company High Voltage Systems Unit Workbook, Attributes, and Requirements Engineer in Dearborn, Michigan
Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD 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.
The engineer in this role is responsible for owning and delivering a complete engineering assessment and documentation (Unit Workbook) for all xEVs (EV, PHEV, FHEV) globally, up to uPS.
What you'll do...
Lead the Pre-uPS Battery Systems Program Attribute Team (PAT) to facilitate the cross-functional Unit Workbook (uWB) process.
Ensure the development, implementation, and maintenance of Battery VPRs and analytical models to support uWB updates and battery studies for pre-uPS design direction.
Develop and maintain links (via Requirements, or otherwise) between EV attributes, requirements, the Workbook process, Gives and Gets, and HV battery configuration and HV architecture decisions.
Author and regularly update the HV Battery uWB as a living document from pre-uPS through uPSC ensuring it includes all necessary requirement/design rule linkages, and supporting data to meet safety, performance, durability, and other critical targets for HV battery function.
Lead cross functional interfaces within EPE to map the EPE Core process for HV Battery design, attribute implementation, and information exchange between and across HV systems, component teams, and the EVEMS organization.
Understand and map the attribute requirements necessary to meet safety, performance, durability, and cost targets. Align new attribute targets to functional requirements of HV battery via uWB.
Execute and continually improve the uMR through uPS Core HV uWB and gives-gets process to ensure the delivery of the battery unit meets Unit Team expectations for function and attribute delivery, with documented risks and open items (own HV Battery uWB scorecard, support Planning’s Unit Scorecard).
Lead the Battery Unit Workbook sign-off process to support Program Milestones.
Conduct component voltage/current/power compatibility studies across battery, eDrive, HV EDS, Power Conversion (DC-DC, OBC, OBG), and Climate (CVTMS, eAC, eHeater).
Author HV Battery Unit Requirements (RQT), Design Rules (DR), and Test Methods (TM), and progress them through internal review and approval processes (Tech Clubs and EDC) to release to FEDE.
You'll have...
Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or equivalent Engineering discipline
2+ years of high-voltage battery or equivalent EV powertrain integration / program experience
2+ years of system or vehicle attribute advocacy experience, knowledgeable of Systems V Process: target setting, cascade process, assessment and reporting
Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills
Ability to facilitate team meetings, effectiveness interfacing with cross-functional teams
Candidates must be able to work under operational pressures, set priorities and self-manage
Even better, you may have...
M.S. in Electrical, Mechanical or equivalent Engineering discipline
2+ years vehicle program experience – PAT, PMT or D&R
Experience writing and issuing of functional requirements, design rules and foundation documentation
Vehicle level or powertrain subsystem modeling
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/GSRnon-HTHD
This position is a salary grade 7-8.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Requisition ID : 30423