Technical Expert-Body & Climate Electronics/Systems Full-Service Supplier Ecus

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In this position...

The Technical Expert role will be responsible for leading Ford Body & Climate electronics assembly design requirements to ensure best practices are applied on all body and climate electronics designs.

Technical Expert - Body & Climate Electronics / Systems for Full Service Supplier ECUs

What you'll do...

• Lead Ford Body & Climate electronics assembly design requirements to ensure best practices are applied on all body and climate electronics designs

• Own the corporate body & climate electronics design requirements

• Define acceptable material types for proper lifetime exposure

• Define electrical, architectural and mechanical interface for maximum robustness

• Lead technical reviews with suppliers to ensure compliance to design requirements

• Document failure modes and feed back to improved design requirements

• Lead Ford Body & Climate electronics assembly validation requirement process

• Own the body & climate electronics corporate validation documents and requirements

• Specify best practices in module validation for electrical and mechanical stresses

• Lead corporate wide technical document for module validation

• Lead Ford Body & Climate system design and validation

• Guide new body & climate system and architecture development

• Own body & climate system validation and requirements

• Lead Ford Lead Interface with internal Ford teams to ensure proper operation, configuration and validation testing is occurring at the module and system level

• Work with component and system teams to ensure proper module configurations are created

• Troubleshoot features and customer expected behavior

• Lead cross product documentation and communication of design and manufacturing best practices

• Perform confirmation reviews with module supplier manufacturing and at Ford vehicle assembly facilities.

• Develop supplier review checklist documents for program reviews by module design and release engineers.

• Work with supplier technical assistance team to ensure requirement compliance on ongoing production hardware.

• Lead Deep Dive, data-driven audits at key events, not limited to vehicle program milestones

• Audit physical and CAE test data with suppliers

• Ensure testing was performed to expected standards and test requirements

• Audit program level verification evidence to ensure program compliance to necessary data requirements.

• Audit applicability and quality of evidence for Design Rules stored in FEDE for programs

• Review early program assumptions and identify new potential unique noise factors, customer usage, and failure modes risks.

• Ensure Ford and industry lessons learned are documents in the associated quality history.

• Audit alignment of classification of significant and critical characteristics in appropriate documents.

• Confirm all Design Rules & Requirements have been assessed at key milestones

• Lead resolution of module configuration, function and assembly validation issues

• Lead the creation of and conduct training, seminars, mentoring to support Ford design and release community and supplier technical assistance teams.

What you'll do...

• Lead Ford Body & Climate electronics assembly design requirements to ensure best practices are applied on all body and climate electronics designs

• Own the corporate body & climate electronics design requirements

• Define acceptable material types for proper lifetime exposure

• Define electrical, architectural and mechanical interface for maximum robustness

• Lead technical reviews with suppliers to ensure compliance to design requirements

• Document failure modes and feed back to improved design requirements

• Lead Ford Body & Climate electronics assembly validation requirement process

• Own the body & climate electronics corporate validation documents and requirements

• Specify best practices in module validation for electrical and mechanical stresses

• Lead corporate wide technical document for module validation

• Lead Ford Body & Climate system design and validation

• Guide new body & climate system and architecture development

• Own body & climate system validation and requirements

• Lead Ford Lead Interface with internal Ford teams to ensure proper operation, configuration and validation testing is occurring at the module and system level

• Work with component and system teams to ensure proper module configurations are created

• Troubleshoot features and customer expected behavior

• Lead cross product documentation and communication of design and manufacturing best practices

• Perform confirmation reviews with module supplier manufacturing and at Ford vehicle assembly facilities.

• Develop supplier review checklist documents for program reviews by module design and release engineers.

• Work with supplier technical assistance team to ensure requirement compliance on ongoing production hardware.

• Lead Deep Dive, data-driven audits at key events, not limited to vehicle program milestones

• Audit physical and CAE test data with suppliers

• Ensure testing was performed to expected standards and test requirements

• Audit program level verification evidence to ensure program compliance to necessary data requirements.

• Audit applicability and quality of evidence for Design Rules stored in FEDE for programs

• Review early program assumptions and identify new potential unique noise factors, customer usage, and failure modes risks.

• Ensure Ford and industry lessons learned are documents in the associated quality history.

• Audit alignment of classification of significant and critical characteristics in appropriate documents.

• Confirm all Design Rules & Requirements have been assessed at key milestones

• Lead resolution of module configuration, function and assembly validation issues

• Lead the creation of and conduct training, seminars, mentoring to support Ford design and release community and supplier technical assistance teams.