PT PVT Engineer

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Plant Vehicle Team (PVT) Engineers are part of Ford Motor Company's Product Development organization and are co-located in the Vehicle Assembly Plant with the vehicle manufacturing team.

The PVT Engineer is the 'first line of defense' with regard to Functional system quality for the products produced at the assembly plant. The PVT Engineer has several responsibilities associated with analyzing and fixing quality issues on components shipped into the assembly plant, and processes within the Vehicle Assembly Plant and integrated remote build centers.

This position is responsible for Underbody functions for all products produced at the Kansas City Assembly Plant (KCAP).

In this position...

• Own cascaded Functional Warranty quality objectives for the base organization (R/1000 and CPU) – by responding to plant/supplier issues before they leave assembly plants, evaluating chronic and new warranty issues to push for cut-off and resolution.
• Lead early concern binning (ECB) warranty binning and analysis (contact dealers, interface with Ford Service), use engineering judgement to help review part returns and provide next steps.
• Support the Variability Reduction Team (VRT) meetings at the Plant with the PVT & manufacturing co-leads.
• Support and present issue findings in quality forums, including Technical and Functional Quality Reviews (TQR, FQR), Director Quality Reviews (DQR), plant quality meetings (PIC, VRT, etc.), Vehicle Quality Reviews (VQR) and Quality Days as required.
• Prepare functional problem-solving documents to support issue resolution with cross-functional team members (CCC 6-Panel, 8-D, 5 Why, Fishbone, etc.).
• Supplier support - timing plans, PPAP review, robustness actions both for Ford and to help reduce quality rejects (QRs). Lead is Ford’s Supplier Technical Assistant (STA) Resident or STA Central Quality.
• Supplier QOS support - includes regular supplier site visits for key/ problem suppliers. Lead is STA Central Quality, along with Site STA.
• Stop/Ship support and prevention:
  Identify issues, coordinate subject matter experts, advise severity and next steps/containment, interface with Ford’s critical concern review group (CCRG). Prepare repair procedures for units contained at the assembly plant.
• BSAQ (6-Sigma) project lead and Problem Resolution for ECB Warranty (except Supplier Quality)- communication and coordination with VFG/Plant/Others, author projects, manage implementation, calculate impact, manage function warranty forecast.
• STA support - help review 8
  
  Ds on select high-impact issues, help author BSAQ projects and close them out, advise and monitor supplier robustness changes. Lead is STA Central Quality.
• Plant issues - support/provide IQ direction (what/where to measure, etc), process walk support and advise QOSC/QPIP, ICA implementation until permanent corrective action (PCA) is available. PCA lead will be the design & release (D&R) engineer for Design, STA for Supplier Quality, and the VRT for plant-related issues.

What you'll do...

• Major launch - Support launch team prior to OKTB + 30 days and transition to lead on issue resolution post OKTB + 30 days.
• Minor launch - May lead some selected small-scale programs/added starters upon agreement with OPD/PVT Leadership.
• AIMS/DEMS - Lead for minor launches, support for major launches and take the lead after OKTB.

• Lead in-plant trials for changes and assess the impact to quality/production
• Lead VRT review and sign-off on supplier requests for component changes (SREA), run trials as required.
• TVM support (ECN, trials, issue clean up, PPAP…