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Lighting Engineer

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In this position...

The Ford Exterior Lighting Engineer role spans a variety of engineering fields including mechanical, electrical, software, and optics. This position involves responsibilities including definition of requirements, product design, tooling, validation testing, and launching in an assembly plant during the development of Exterior Lighting products throughout a vehicle’s lifecycle. This role requires an engineer to lead and drive a cross functional team that includes lighting suppliers, optics, software, studio, purchasing, manufacturing, and quality functions.

Our ideal candidate desires to build their career as an engineer within exterior lighting. This candidate must demonstrate clear communication and project management skills and is a passionate, hard-working person who enjoys taking on challenges and following through with robust solutions.

What you'll do...

•Systems Engineering for Exterior Lighting

•Generate and execute technical solutions for Exterior Lighting components to support new vehicle programs

•Perform complex engineering evaluation analysis

•Work cross-functionally to implement cost savings, product improvements, and to support prototype and production build activities

•Balance attributes such as cost, weight, complexity, and timing

•Production release of Exterior Lighting systems, subsystems, components, and features

•Core requirement and technology development

•Communicate information to and from internal and external organizations

•Lead team meetings (suppliers, designers, engineers, manufacturing, supplier quality, etc.)

•Travel as required (including international)

You'll have...

•Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering discipline

•2+ years of related automotive and/or lighting applications experience (inclusive of professional, co-op, and internship positions).

Even better, you may have...

•Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Optical, or Software Engineering

•Master’s Degree or other Advanced Degree

•Familiarity with the engineering design of exterior lighting components

•Familiarity with Design For Six Sigma process

•Experience with DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis), GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing), and ISO standards

•Knowledge of plastic materials, plastic injection molding, optics, basic electrical/electronic circuitry, software, lamp manufacturing processes, tooling, fixture design and product validation

•Knowledge of global lighting regulations

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:

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This position is a salary grade 5.

This position is a range of salary grades 5-8 .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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Requisition ID : 35082