# Prototype Engineering Design Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,500-$218,100
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We're looking for a skilled Prototype Engineering Design Manager to join our team at Ford Motor Company. As a key member of our design team, you will lead a team of product engineering designers to bring concepts to life in the form of functional high-fidelity prototypes. With a deep understanding of automotive systems and subsystems, you will leverage your expertise to see the future of Ford firsthand and play a pivotal role in the early-stage development of the next generation of Ford vehicle content and experiences.

Responsibilities:

- Lead a team to engineer/design prototypes which include show/concept/pre-production vehicles, interior and exterior systems, interior and exterior components, and interior and exterior clay model armatures

- Support the development of prototype build plans, lead the team through delivering data on time and with quality

- Work collaboratively with design, engineering, marketing, and program teams to align on scope of work, build timing, and budget

- Leverage background in automotive systems and subsystems to identify and document design and engineering feasibility concerns and support the identification of robust solutions

- Identify areas of opportunity and process efficiencies and action those as appropriate

- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve prototypes

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, design, or equivalent

- 5+ years of experience working in automotive engineering and/or design with a strong understanding of vehicle-level systems and subsystems

- 5+ years of experience leading complex projects and project teams

- 5+ years of experience leveraging prototype manufacturing techniques to build high-fidelity prototypes

- Proficiency in design/PLM software such as Catia, 3DX, Teamcenter, Alias, etc.

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively

- Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Preferred qualifications include a master's degree in design, engineering, or equivalent, 5+ years of experience in prototype software design and development, and fluency in various CAD software such as Catia, Rhino, Alias, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- Catia
- 3DX
- Teamcenter
- Alias
- Automotive systems and subsystems
- Prototype manufacturing techniques
- Design/PLM software
- Project management
- Communication and teamwork skills

### Nice to have
- Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
- CAD software
- Rhino
- Fluent in various CAD software

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