The **Ford Champs Program** provides students with hands-on, career-specific experience inside Ford of Mexico. **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 to 24 months, while you improve your skills and become a better professional. At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation. As a Benchmarking Ford Champ you'll be supporting cost reduction activities to make Ford more profitable and competitive in the marketplace, playing a key role in helping to meet corporate cost objectives. The main objective is analyze Ford and competitive vehicles/properties to understand component, system and architectural strategies based on vehicle and commodity teardowns. The team generates ideas related to cost, weight, tooling and assembly time savings through part analysis and comparison. **What you'll do:** + Participate and Coordinate teardown activities and schedule + Complete the weekly status report for our upper management and functional teams + Review and follow up teardown process to understand assembly characteristics of each vehicle analyzed + Compare and analyze parts and systems to identify opportunities of cost reduction + Follow up data upload to benchmarking database + Understand manufacturing processes and materials to identify cost reduction opportunities + Follow up with Cost Estimating team on cost saving ideas + Upload ideas to the cost reduction database + Prepare One Pagers with the description of each idea to be presented with the functional team and program Chiefs + Help coordinate part management for special studies + Investigate latest state of the art technologies and trends in the automotive industry that could be implemented in our vehicles + Search for new ways of simplify our designs to be more cost effective + Understand what are the benchmarks of the industry in different commodities and systems (also, in manufacturing processes and execution strategies) + Active student from any of the last 4 semesters of **Engineering** + 90% English skills (Oral, reading, writing, and listening) + Excel and Power Point proficiency + Basic knowledge in automotive industry and manufacturing processes + Organized + Proactive + Clearly and effective communication skills. **DISCLAIMER:** Ford Motor Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, as we are committed with a diverse workforce, and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran and basis of disability. **Requisition ID** : 46293