PD Engineer Ford Champ (Trainee)

Ford Champs looks forward to providing you with key knowledge and significant experiences for your professional career. This is a great platform to connect with leadership, collaborate with professionals in many areas of the business and learn more about our Ford full time opportunities. Throughout this program, there are many opportunities to gain insight and exposure to our business that will last a lifetime.

Ford Champs will allow to get to now different business areas through 12 months, while you improve your skills and become a better professional.

We are looking for a motivated Engineering Ford Champ to join the C2 Platform team, supporting cost reduction initiatives and digital tooling efforts across platform component areas such as engines, transmissions, cooling systems, exhaust systems, and related hardware. This role is ideal for someone eager to apply modern digital tools (AI, Power Apps, Jira) to real engineering problems while gaining exposure to cross-functional collaboration and executive-level reporting.

• AI-Driven Automation: Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools to automate manual, repetitive cost-reduction and engineering tasks, improving team efficiency and turnaround time.
• Power Apps Development: Build and maintain Power Apps solutions to digitize workflows, centralize data collection, and simplify data entry/updates for engineers across the platform team.
• Jira Management & Tracking: Support the creation, organization, and tracking of Jira tickets/boards to manage cost reduction initiatives, tooling projects, and action items across multiple stakeholders.
• Real-Time Data Sharing & Reporting: Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting tools that provide real-time visibility into cost status, project progress, and key metrics — accessible and easily updatable by any engineer on the team, without requiring specialized technical skills.
• High-Level Reporting: Prepare and maintain concise, high-level summaries and dashboards for review with Chief Engineers, translating detailed technical/cost data into clear executive-level insights.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, cost analysts, and platform leads to ensure tools and reports meet the needs of multiple stakeholders and remain aligned with evolving priorities.

• Active student from any of the last 2 semesters of engineering (Prefered Mechanical)
• Advanced English proficiency (written and verbal) is required to effectively communicate with global teams, suppliers, and stakeholders

Ford of Mexico is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or disability status.

Our focus is to build the best team. If you think you can bring value to Ford, love to collaborate, prioritize and aim to deliver excellence in everything you do, we encourage you to apply!

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

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