VHE System Engineering Team Architecture Manager

Dearborn, MI, United States (Hybrid)

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

At Ford, the Vehicle Hardware Engineering teams are using 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 teams around the world are working together with excitement to make smart vehicles for a smart world.

In this position...

You will lead Systems Engineering Team (SET) Leaders, through Systems Design methodology. You will identify and deliver cost / weight efficiencies, component part reductions, quality improvement, labor savings, and service efficiency.

You Will...

• Engage Systems Engineering for integration of MBSE modeling of critical systems of interest.
• Own system level decision making for Vehicle Hardware Engineering (VHE) functions and represent VHE with Program, Attribute, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and other interfaces.
• Optimize vehicle environment within SETs to reduce overall part counts, drive toward direct mounting and minimize brackets and fasteners where possible.
• Collaborate with Planning, CNE, Marketing, VEM, Supply Chain, and VOME to align vehicle content to ensure competitive, compatible, and efficient lifecycle cost.
• Lead SET target setting, through extensive benchmarking and leverage Core team opportunities / technology, using Global Lifecycle Cost Process.
• Leverage 3DX PLM platform to manage engineering data centrally, enabling SET to focus on engineering vs data management and reporting.
• Advocate for VHE to ensure factory recognition of implications from assumptions change.
• Lead Systems Technical Design and Compatibility Reviews to optimize designs, resolve issues, and deliver all Program Milestones on-time / on-target.
• Interface with VHE functional leadership to escalating critical technical issues as needed
• Champion trade-off decisions to manage design and cost status to balance SET target delivery and co-lead content and attribute proposals with CNE and VEM.
• Co-Lead with DTO to manage Studio feasibility and theme progression through D-loop process, enabling Applications engineering delivery in K-Loop process
• Collaborate with SET members and external partners for System Level Engineering Sign-Off

You'll Have...

Bachelors Degree in Engineering required.

5+ years experience in Functional Engineering or Vehicle Engineering

Experience with CAD and CAE tools, ability to interface and manage virtual design data.

Experience in Systems Engineering, Design Thinking and user experience.

Experience with Studio process for early theme development and feasibility assessment.

Demonstrated courage, humility, decisiveness, flexibility, knowledge, and vision.

Proven technical depth and ability to make decisions and balanced trade-offs.

Ability to build strong effective relationships with cross-functional teams (Program, Studio, Purchasing, Finance, Engineering, Manufacturing and Suppliers).

Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple issues effectively and efficiently.

Demonstrated ability to prioritize workload managing immediate and future needs.

Outstanding communication skills (open, clear and inclusive) up to senior management.

Outstanding leadership skills with demonstrated ability to deliver results.

High integrity with effective coaching and…