Ford Motor Company

Studio Engineer Supervisor

Ford Motor Company • $150K — $283K *
Long Beach, CA 90805In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • 5+ years of automotive surfacing authoring or surface feasibility experience
  • 2+ years of experience utilizing CAD (Catia V5/3DX) and Data Management (TCe)
  • Knowledge of Surfacing Software packages such as ISD, ICESURF or Alias
  • Experience working within the automotive industry, specifically in vehicle design, surfacing, or feasibility development

Responsibilities

  • Lead the creation of Class A surface incorporating technical and feasibility requirements
  • Steer the Design Feasibility Process from early concepts to production surfaces
  • Deliver high quality Class A surface on time to meet deliverable requirements
  • Conduct surface development reviews, following through on issues and documenting resolutions
  • Compile and drive closure on surface and feasibility critique sheets
  • Identify innovative solutions aligning Design Vision with engineering requirements
  • Create proposals to align team around Design Vision and stakeholder requirements

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and subsidized child care
  • Family building benefits including adoption reimbursement and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups for community building
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • Generous paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

As the Supervisor of Theme Feasibility & Surface Development, you will guide your team and a cross functional team to deliver A Surfaces that are feasible and maintain the emotive direction of the Design Studio. This role leads program, functional, and internal studio teams through Ford's Design Feasibility (FC) Progression from initial concept feasibility through to final tool-able A Surface approval.

This is a hybrid position requiring 4 days a week in our Long Beach, CA office.

What you'll do...
  • Lead the creation of Class A surface, with the integration of technical, feasibility, manufacturing, and program requirements into the Design theme and surface to support the development of theme models from concept through final production release of Class A surface
  • Lead the Design Feasibility Process from early concepts to production surfaces including leading studio required deliverables, and the balancing of program, functional, manufacturing, and attribute trade-offs for design feasibility progression.
  • Deliver feasible, design intent, high quality Class A surface on time, to deliverable requirements.
  • Lead surface development reviews within Design and follows up on issues while driving closure. Mediates incompatibilities between design and hardpoints and documents agreements and next steps.
  • Compile, publish, and drive closure of surface and feasibility critique sheets
  • Co-create to identify what could be, can be, & find the win/win solutions that drive alignment around the Design Vision, program direction, and engineering requirements.
  • Create surface proposals to drive team alignment around Design Vision, and stakeholder requirements.
  • Lead the development of feasibility surface proposals throughout theme and surface development that enable the Design vision
  • Lead Studio property planning, content, development and set up, and integrity including content, data pedigree, ride height, manikin drop and overall suitability


You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • 5+ yrs. of automotive surfacing authoring or surface feasibility experience
  • 2+ years of experience utilizing CAD (Catia V5/3DX) and Data Management (TCe)
  • Knowledge of Surfacing Software packages such as ISD, ICESURF or Alias
  • Experience working within the automotive industry, specifically in vehicle design, surfacing, or feasibility development


Even better, You'll have...
  • Design articulate with proven experience in Studio procedures, Design progression, and the FC Process
  • Demonstrated experience in leading and presenting to cross-functional forums
  • Strong understanding of the Class A digital and physical surface verification processes
  • Detail oriented, with strong process execution discipline ability
  • High proficiency in CAD (Catia V5/3DX) with operational knowledge of Surfacing Tools (ISD, ICEMSURF, or Alias) and Data Management (TCe) and visualization tools (VREDHigh proficiency in CAD (Catia V5/3DX) with operational knowledge of Surfacing Tools (ISD, ICEMSURF, or Alias) and Data Management (TCe) and visualization tools (VRED, Unreal)


You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • 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.


This position is a leadership level 6 and ranges from $150,200-$283,500.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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