Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of CAD designers and engineering design personnel.
• Oversee creation, quality, release, and maintenance of 3D CAD models, assemblies, and 2D engineering drawings.
• Support vehicle and subsystem development from concept, feasibility, packaging, and prototype through validation and production release.
• Ensure CAD deliverables meet engineering standards, release requirements, timing milestones, and program objectives.
• Partner closely with design release engineers, manufacturing, studio, quality, purchasing, suppliers, prototype, and program teams.
• Review model integrity, interface control, package feasibility, tolerance conditions, and manufacturability.
• Drive consistent use of CAD best practices, modeling standards, drawing standards, naming conventions, and data management processes.
• Support digital mockup reviews, issue resolution, packaging studies, and design change implementation.
• Manage team workload, priorities, staffing support, and escalation of technical or timing risks.
• Lead problem-solving activities related to design quality, package conflicts, release issues, and engineering change execution.
• Promote continuous improvement in CAD productivity, digital quality, and development efficiency.
• Mentor team members in technical design methods, GD&T, release discipline, and product development processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 7 or more years of experience in CAD design, engineering design, or product development.
• 2 or more years of leadership experience in a supervisory, lead, or team-coordination capacity.
• Strong experience in automotive or complex mechanical product development.
• Advanced proficiency in 3D CAD modeling, assembly design, engineering drawing development, and release processes.
• Strong working knowledge of GD&T and engineering drawing interpretation.
• Experience supporting cross-functional design reviews, packaging studies, and manufacturability assessments.
• Strong understanding of mechanical systems, component interfaces, materials, and production processes.
• Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Experience with many of the following technical tools and systems is also beneficial:

• CATIA V5
• CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE
• 3D solid modeling
• surface modeling
• large assembly management
• parametric design
• 2D detailing and drawing release
• Teamcenter
• product lifecycle management systems
• engineering release systems
• revision control
• configuration management
• Teamcenter Visualization
• VisMockup
• digital mockup tools
• interference detection
• package analysis
• interface management
• tolerance stack-up tools
• DFMEA support tools
• CAE coordination processes
• design-for-manufacturing reviews
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word
• issue tracking systems
• project timing tools
• collaboration platforms

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