Engineering Design Supervisor

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

3d

About The Position

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more! As a CAD Efficiencies Supervisor, your passion is to be part of movements much bigger than yourself. You will be the liaison between the Engineering Design Global CAD organization and Digital Transformation, Program Production, IT and software vendors working together to drive culture change, manage software testing initiatives, and investigating potential process developments to keep our systems at the forefront. You will lead a dynamic team of visionary developers dedicated to enhancing efficiency of the Engineering Design Global CAD Team. Your leadership will empower our engineering designers to deliver the innovative hardware systems and components that our customers love. You will champion an agile approach to conceptualize, develop, and implement advanced CAD tools and methodologies for CATIA V5 and 3DExperience. Your strategic oversight will directly impact the speed and quality of our world-class vehicle designs by reducing design and release cycles, eliminating redundancies, and enforcing critical standards compliance. This role demands a flexible, adaptable, and inspiring leader, capable of balancing multiple development activities and guiding a team within a rapidly evolving, technologically-driven environment. This is a pivotal leadership position in CAD standards, processes, and tool development, where your expertise in project management, CAD systems (CATIA V5, 3DExperience), and a deep understanding of engineering design processes will be paramount. You will foster a highly collaborative environment, partnering closely with our Program Production, Digital Transformation, IT teams and software vendors. You will work with customers of CAD Deliverables to ensure our organization provides robust, consumable data that meets their needs. You will be instrumental in guiding Ford Motor Company’s digital transformation from our legacy, file-based toolset to a modern, object-based modeling environment. Your priority is to ensure CAD tools, methodologies, and processes are optimized for our modern toolset.

Requirements

• Expertise in project management.
• Expertise in CAD systems (CATIA V5, 3DExperience).
• Deep understanding of engineering design processes.

Responsibilities

• Drive culture change, manage software testing initiatives, and investigate potential process developments.
• Lead a dynamic team of visionary developers dedicated to enhancing efficiency of the Engineering Design Global CAD Team.
• Empower engineering designers to deliver innovative hardware systems and components.
• Champion an agile approach to conceptualize, develop, and implement advanced CAD tools and methodologies for CATIA V5 and 3DExperience.
• Reduce design and release cycles, eliminate redundancies, and enforce critical standards compliance.
• Foster a highly collaborative environment, partnering closely with Program Production, Digital Transformation, IT teams and software vendors.
• Work with customers of CAD Deliverables to ensure the organization provides robust, consumable data that meets their needs.
• Guide Ford Motor Company’s digital transformation from a legacy, file-based toolset to a modern, object-based modeling environment.
• Ensure CAD tools, methodologies, and processes are optimized for the modern toolset.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees