Special Vehicle Engineering Development Team Member

What awaits you in this role?Special Vehicle Engineering Team Member is an energetic/ambitious development team member who works in collaboration with various people and departments to deliver markets special vehicles needs on time, in budget and expected quality and works with agile methodology. Responsible for design, verification and implementation of new parts and features to heavy commercial vehicles for customer satisfaction.As a Special Vehicle Engineering Team Member, you embody energy and ambition, driving innovation and excellence within a dynamic development team. Your role is to collaborate seamlessly with diverse stakeholders and departments, ensuring the timely delivery of specialized vehicles that meet market demands with precision, efficiency, and quality. Working within an agile framework, you take ownership of the design, verification, and implementation of new components and features, elevating heavy commercial vehicles to new heights of customer satisfaction.Principal Responsibilities:• Working as a Product Development Engineer on the design of product (vehicle option / system / part) together with CAD designer, manufacturer, bodybuilder on Ford Trucks Special Vehicle Engineering projects.• Participating in all agile ceremony and complete relevant tasks (such as sprint planning, sprint review, retro).• Collaborating with other team members to estimate the size and complexity of the work in upcoming sprints.• Committing to deliver the planned work in each sprint.• Leading the projects from beginning to end.• Create part list (Bill of Material-BOM) and related technical documentation.• Taking responsibility on design quality process, FMEA, reliability and robustness studies.• Prepare a test / verification plan, organize and follow up the tests.• Ensuring that manufacturers will determine the critical and specific properties for the newly designed parts and prepare their plans.• Publishing engineering changes and following up the implementation of changes.• Following the designs of the adjacent parts that will affect the design of the workpiece and implementing necessary updates, providing information flow with the relevant teams, informing other teams affected by the design change of the parts which are under the responsibility of Ford Trucks Special Vehicle Engineering.• Performing benchmark studies with reference tools and realize cost and quality efficient design, preparing presentations in the format that can be presented in benchmark meetings.• Using quality tools in design quality processes, taking role and responsibility in FMEA, reliability and robustness studies.• Representing “Ford Trucks Special Vehicle Engineering” team at meetings held with other PD departments, plant, suppliers and bodybuilders.• Finding cost reduction solutions by creative thinking.• Visiting suppliers and discussing about supplied parts to improve quality.RequirementsThe person we are looking for is driven, caring and structured. You develop by showing initiative, resolving problems and proactively working towards common goals. You are used to a high paced work environment and have good time management skills. Qualities that we value are flexibility, friendliness, courage and a sense of humor.• B.Sc/M.Sc degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering or related technical field is preferred• Fluent in English both written and spoken• No travel restrictions to Ford Otosan plants, supplier and abroad• Self motivation and discipline• Good presentation skills and conflict management skills• Excellent command of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)• Open to innovations, eager to learn new things and high persuasion skills• Analytical thinking and problem solving skills• Good communication skills, team working skills• Good analytical skills• A good and motivated team player, but also well prepared to work independently• Ability to document (excel, powerpoint), maintain order and structure• Having driving licenceRole Location:• İnönü/EskişehirWhat About Us?Ford Otosan, being one of the top three exporting companies in Turkey since 2004, has achieved 12 consecutive years of automotive industry championship and is Turkiye goods product export champion for 8 years in a row. Ford Otosan operates in 4 main centers with its Gölcük and Yeniköy Plants in Kocaeli, Eskişehir Plant in Eskişehir, Sancaktepe R&D Center and Spare Parts Warehouse in İstanbul and Craiova Plant in Romania employs more than 20,000 people. Kocaeli and Eskişehir Plants are listed among Ford's 'Best Vehicle Production Centers' and Eskişehir is the only factory in Turkiye that can produce vehicles, engines, and powertrains in the same center.Ford Otosan, standing out with its sensitivity regarding social responsibilities, also carries out several social responsibility projects in many fields including education, healthcare, culture, arts, and sports on “Future. Now” vision. Ford Otosan, also carrying out awareness studies on gender equality since 2013 with the understanding of "Equality at Work", became the only automotive and the first and only industrial company from Turkiye to be included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index in 2021.The building blocks of our new corporate culture, which we call “Dynamic Balance”, our values are mutual trust and respect, value each other and affection, openness to change and innovation, open and transparent communication.A common culture brings us to a common sense and purpose, helps us to work in a positive atmosphere of trust, ties us closer and helps us to reach a stronger future all together.