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The Product Line Owner (PLO) for Provider Integrations leads the strategy, delivery, and ongoing management of Ford and Lincoln's digital service scheduling platforms, FSR+ and LSR+. The role drives cross-functional execution across engineering, design, operations, and provider partners to deliver seamless customer and dealer service experiences.
As a Product Line Owner, you're responsible for working with various teams in the identification, development, execution, and ongoing management of Digital Customer & Dealer Experiences, as well as external provider integrations. You will have a laser focus on customer, dealer and partner integration requirements, ensuring the delivery of a best-in-class scheduling and service experience for retail and commercial fleet customers. This role is central to managing a diverse landscape of provider capabilities-including Dealer Management Systems (DMS) and scheduling tools-to provide exceptional experiences across all channels, such as Mobile App, Web, and Fleet Telematics. Working alongside Engineering, Design, and Operations teams, you will utilize your full playbook to drive delivery and ongoing support.
Responsibilities
What you'll be able to do:
Sr. Chassis Design Engineer - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Long Beach, California). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the anticipated worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the anticipated worksite. Design and develop novel brakes, steering, wheel, tire, and suspension concepts that improve product cost, mass, efficiency, manufacturability, serviceability, and driving dynamics. Author and maintain 3D CAD, PLM, release, and validation documentation for a full chassis subsystem. Assess and validate manufacturing, assembly, and service feasibility of design proposals. Challenge existing design requirements and define new design requirements for system sizing, functions, and features based on regulations, first principles, and product attributes. Design, analyze, build, and test prototypes at component, subsystem, and full vehicle level. Subjectively and objectively evaluate braking, steering, ride and handling attributes in production vehicles, prototype vehicles, and simulator.
Qualifications
You'll have...
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Design Engineering, Automotive Engineering Technology, Materials Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation. 5 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. 3D CAD design of automotive components and assemblies using Catia, 3DExperience, Solidworks, Creo, or NX. 2. Change Management and release of automotive components and assemblies using the following Product Lifecycle Management Software: Enovia, 3DExperience, or Arena. 3. Documenting engineering work in Atlassian, Jira, and Confluence. 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Developing and delivering prototype parts for new automotive products. 2. Tracking, documenting and resolving issues with Atlassian tools including Confluence and Jira. 3. Solving cross functional vehicle integration problems for automotive products. 2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Applying and interpreting Geometric Design and Tolerancing (GD&T) methods on drawings.
We are offering a salary of $142,355.00 - $194,560.08/yr.
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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, 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://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD
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