DVA Engineer

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Overview

As part of our Manufacturing team, you’ll help build the world-class, state-of-the-art smart vehicles we’re known for. In our plants around the world, we’re constantly developing new technologies and processes to further increase our efficiency. You  get the satisfaction of making great products people use and love. In this position, you  work with the Body Construction Stamping Engineering Vehicle Manufacturing Engineering team to analyze, iterate, ideate, and plan production systems for vehicle manufacturing.

We continually seek diligent, determined performers who think outside the box to improve manufacturing methods and efficiency. The DVA engineer will lead model development and reporting in support of forward model vehicle manufacturing engineering development and production quality, developing advanced body and vehicle assembly simulation models to predict variation and contributors to variation of the discrete process and tooling elements of the production system and the incoming material (components).

Responsibilities

What you  do:

• Lead dimensional variation analysis modeling and reporting.
• Develop full functional variation models to simulate the impact of incoming material and production system variation and behavior.
• Provide geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) support.
• Support appearance and functional dimensional issue resolution.
• Support related dimensional control elements (locators, checking fixtures, etc.) as needed.
• Provide design and process feedback based on model analysis.
• Lead vehicle program deliverables for the DVA team per the manufacturing QOS.
• Lead program management of DVA deliverables.
• Support the integration of stamping simulation responses into body assembly simulation models.
• Support the implementation of AI techniques in developing solution sets to complex dimensional problems.

Qualifications

You’ll have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 3 or more years of dimensional control experience, preferably with skills including:
• Production experience in the manufacture or assembly of vehicle systems (body, trim, and chassis).
• Experience developing and analyzing GD&T.
• Expertise in developing and analyzing locating strategies for body, trim, and chassis systems.
• Experience performing tolerance analysis simulations using VisVSA (or similar software).
• Background performing finite element analysis (FEA) simulations using Hypermesh, NASTRAN, and LS-DYNA.

Even better, you  have

• Master  degree in engineering, mathematics or similar.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Strong Project Management skills and result-oriented mindset.
• Strong verbal & written communication and presentation skills.
• Energetic personality that is eager to learn and solve problems.
• Expertise in production experience in the manufacture of assembly of vehicle systems (body, trim, chassis).
• Strong experience developing and analyzing GD&T.
• Expertise in developing and analyzing locating strategies for body, trim, and chassis systems.
• Experience performing tolerance analysis simulations using VisVSA (or similar software).
• Background performing finite element analysis (FEA) simulations using Hypermesh, NASTRAN, and LS-DYNA.
• Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we  outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

Based in Dearborn, MI, this is a hybrid position with a required four-day onsite presence each week.

Benefits

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