Design Fabricator
About The Position
As a Design Fabricator, you'll bring Ford's most ambitious design concepts to life—transforming clay models, sketches, and digital data into precision physical forms that shape the vehicles of tomorrow. Working hands-on with cutting-edge tools, materials, and fabrication techniques, you'll be the critical link between imagination and reality, turning a designer's vision into tangible models that influence real product decisions. You'll collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and modelers in a fast-paced studio environment, applying craftsmanship across mold making, metal and wood working, composite lay-up, surfacing, and finishing to deliver exterior and interior design proposals with precision and quality. If you take pride in your craft, thrive on solving hands-on technical challenges, and want to see your work reflected in vehicles on the road, this is where skilled fabrication meets the future of mobility.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- 2 years of experience with machining and laser fabrication
- High level of understanding the requirements for physical model development and clay modeling techniques.
- Ability to work in a dynamic work environment with continuous change and willingness to learn new skills.
- Proficient at creative problem solving.
- Ability to understand engineering requirements and incorporate into physical models.
Responsibilities
- Fabricate automotive design models—including molds, metal and wood components, composite lay-ups, surfacing, painting, trim, and assembly—for complete exterior and interior design proposals.
- Create experimental parts and ornamentation from clay models, sketches, engineering drawings, verbal direction, and math data to support the design organization.
- Safely operate a variety of hand tools, machinery, and fabrication equipment, with safety as a top priority on every project.
- Translate drawings, prints, and verbal concepts into precision fabricated forms, parts, and shapes.
- Confer with designers, engineers, and facility personnel to determine specifications and achieve project results.
- Collaborate with team members to make corrections and adjustments, ensuring projects are completed accurately and on time.
- Ensure all design projects conform to established design and quality standards.
- Develop new and innovative fabrication techniques to continuously improve the fabrication process.
- Manage multiple project timelines using strong personal organization skills to meet deadlines.
- Utilize computer systems as needed to support fabrication work.
- Participate in supplier site visits for offsite projects, when appropriate.
- Apply complex fabrication strategies to complete projects within allotted timeframes.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
