- Driving Innovation and Cost Reduction Through Benchmarking.
- We analyze vehicles, systems and parts to find opportunities for innovation and cost reduction.
- We do Teardown of full vehicles, systems and components
- Also Studying and comparing materials, design choices and manufacturing implications
- We work with engineering teams to improve and innovate our designs and reduce costs
- We look at everything – from how parts are made to how they perform – with one goal: make smarter, more efficient vehicles.
At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
Ford Product Development is utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that will delight our customers. Our employees are laser-focused on bringing innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. From autonomy and electrification, to smart mobility technologies, our Product Development teams around the world are working together with excitement to make smart vehicles for a smart world.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Automotive, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Industrial or related)
- Advanced English communication proficiency (verbal and written)
- Excel and Power Point proficiency
- 3+ years of experience in automotive industry and manufacturing processes
- Organized
- Proactive
- Clearly and effective communication skills.
Ford Motor Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, as we are committed with a diverse workforce, and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran and basis of disability.
What you'll do…
- Participate and Coordinate teardown activities and schedule
- Complete the weekly status report of activities
- Review and follow up teardown process to understand assembly characteristics of each vehicle analyzed
- Compare and analyze parts and systems to identify opportunities of cost reduction
- Follow up and verify accuracy in data upload to IBP database (Teardown Database)
- Understand manufacturing processes and materials to identify cost reduction opportunities
- Follow up with Cost Estimating team on cost saving ideas
- Upload ideas to the CRID database and follow up with its progress
- Prepare One Pagers with the description of each idea to be presented with the functional team and program Chiefs
- Help coordinate part management for special studies
- Investigate latest state of the art technologies and trends in the automotive industry that could be implemented in our vehicles
- Search for new ways of simplify our designs to be more cost effective
- Understand what are the benchmarks of the industry in different commodities and systems (also, in manufacturing processes and execution strategies)
- Contribute with the development and implementation of new benchmarking tools using new technologies developed by the team (Dashboards, Qliksense, AI tools)