Engineering Specialist - Quality/Dimensional

Job Description

Imagine seeing your work on highways and job sites everywhere you go in the finest vehicles ever made. 
Imagine leading the formation of a new stamping facility, operating as if it were a start-up, leveraging the strength of a global heritage brand. 
Imagine the opportunity to use your leadership and technical skills to develop and build a winning team from the ground up.
Imagine deploying state-of-the-art technology within a centre of excellence that's not just best-in-class for Ford, but best in the world. 
Imagine the career journey of a lifetime.

Responsibilities

At Ford's Oakville Assembly Complex, you can do all that and more. We are expanding and retooling to relaunch vehicle operations like never before. This is more than just a launch-it's an opportunity to shape the future of vehicle manufacturing in Canada. Here, is where cutting-edge manufacturing processes will bring to life vehicles that embody unparalleled performance and unwavering dependability. At Ford Motor Company, we don't just build vehicles; we craft the essential tools that empower businesses and individuals across the globe. Join us in creating the vehicles that keep the world moving and forge a career defined by meaningful impact and innovation.
 

• Responsible for the implementation, execution, monitoring, and adjustment of stamping quality processes, procedures, and documentation.
• Drive quality concern resolution with cross-functional teams, including production, and engineering
• Drive incoming quality improvements with suppliers
• Document the appropriate responses and establish permanent corrective actions
• Liaise with Body Shop on a continual basis, fostering collaborative, solution-oriented relationships
• Support reaction plans and containment initiatives
• Support Continuous Improvement and coach problem resolution
• Apply engineering principles & analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products
• Knowledge of and ability to execute dimensional measurement systems analysis & variable data analysis
• Interpret data from inspection equipment and recommend responses
• Develop dimensional, product and process control plans
• Perform daily audits ensuring adherence to the Quality Operating System
• Ensure gauge calibration; certification; and repeatability and duplicability
• Identify and eliminate sources of variation within the production environment

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:
 

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience:
  • 5 years manufacturing experience in a quality role.
  • 3 years read prints, AutoCAD, 3D Modelling, Additive Manufacturing.
  • 3 years of Lean Tools - 5S, Kanban, Poka-Yoke, and Value Stream Mapping.
  • Must be able to work all shifts which may include days, afternoons, midnights (straight) and/or weekends.

Preferred Requirements:
 

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. Note: Successful candidates will be required to provide proof of degree completion for the highest level of education attained. If the degree was obtained from a school outside of Canada, an Education Credential Assessment report showing Canadian equivalency is also required.
  Experience:
  • Understanding of aluminum sheet metal stamping, GD&T.
  • Automotive manufacturing experience in Stamping.
  • Experience working with exterior sheet metal.
  • Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Outlook).
  • Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience.
  • Statistical Process Control experience.
  • Total Quality Management (TQM) and Kaizen Methods.
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), DMAIC Project Methodologies and DOEs experience.
  • Visual Factory Management experience.
  • Knowledge of constraint management principles.
  • Experience working in a leadership role.
  • Experience working in a unionized environment.

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Ford of Canada is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a culturally diverse workforce. Accommodations for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment, selection and / or assessment processes, where needed, are available upon request. Please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require. 

Candidates for this position must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited does not sponsor work permit applications.