# Primary Design Engineer

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Chennai, TN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

As a Primary Design Engineer at Ford, you will be a key contributor to the Global Engineering Design/CAD team in Chennai, reporting to the CAD Manager LL6.

The role involves systems-level design ownership across diverse automotive domains such as Interior commodity, IP/CNSL, Door Trim, Hard Trims, and Functional Trims.

You will lead a small team of designers or own a system or subsystems, guiding them in creating designs that adhere to Ford Engineering requirements and Design Standards using Catia V5 / V6 environment.

Your core responsibility will be to ensure timely and quality CAD design deliverables in line with Ford GPDS timelines.

This position requires strong technical acumen in digital pre-assembly, BOM management, clearance checks, and the ability to implement design actions based on CAE/CFD analysis and testing.

You will also manage the CAD design lifecycle within the PML tool (Teamcenter /3DX) and continuously seek opportunities for efficiency and innovation.

### Responsibilities

- Execute projects and establish systems-level design ownership, working either as an individual contributor or as the leader of a small design team.

- Perform Design of Interior Exterior Plastics commodities in Catia V5, in line with Engineering requirements and Ford Design Standards.

- Meet Ford GPDS timelines and quality standards for CAD design deliverables.

- Demonstrate good knowledge in Digital Pre-assembly process and BOM.

- Perform Dynamic and static clearance checks.

- Ensure CAD / BOM alignment.

- Implement Design actions based on analysis using CAE / CFD / outdoor & indoor tests.

- Develop designs according to Plastics design specifications & manufacturing processes.

- Manage CAD design Lifecycle in PML tool (Teamcenter).

- Run Design reviews.

- Actively participate in efficiency and innovation initiatives.

- Perform Engineering Design with minimal supervision.

- Collaborate with D&R Engineers and other cross-functional teams to perform all CAD-related deliverables with respect to Ford standards.

- Ensure every Gateway/Milestone target is achieved with respect to Ford standards and Design rule requirements.

### Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical/Automobile) or related disciplines.

- Min 12 years of experience in the Automotive Industry.

- Minimum 12 years of design experience (CATIA V5) in any of the automotive systems.

- Candidates should ideally have 12+ years in Automotive Product Development.

### Functional/Technical Skills

- In-depth CAD tool skills (Catia V5 / V6).

- Expertise in vehicle systems and sub-systems (Door Trims/ IP/CNSL, Exterior Plastics, Interior Trims, etc).

- Work experience with PLM tools (Teamcenter /3DX).

- Knowledge of engineering quality tools: FMEAs, Six Sigma, etc.

- Knowledge of applied systems engineering, Six Sigma methodologies.

- Technical expert in New Product Introduction process, its milestones, and its delivery success criteria for engineering.

- Knowledge of material cost, business equations, and basic finance.

- Excellent Written and Verbal communication.

- Working knowledge with Office Tools

## Skills

### Required
- Catia V5
- Catia V6
- CAD design
- Digital Pre-assembly
- BOM management
- Clearance checks
- CAE/CFD analysis
- Teamcenter
- PLM tools
- FMEAs
- Six Sigma
- Systems engineering

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