Engineering Design Supervisor

Job Overview

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 investigate potential process developments to keep our systems at the forefront. You will lead a dynamic team of visionary developers dedicated to enhancing the 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.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3 years in a leadership role with experience in project management.
• Demonstrated experience leading efficiency projects, investigating diverse technologies, and strong technical writing skills for methodology documentation.
• Exceptional teamwork and collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering with stakeholders.
• Experience with developing and conducting training, as well as user support.
• Strong participation in continuous development.

• Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience with software development using C#, Windows Presentation Foundation, Python, C++/CAA RADE, web development, or 3DExperience widget development.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience designing in CATIA V5 / Teamcenter / 3DExperience.
• Experience in creating efficiency tools in CATIA V5 / Teamcenter and/or 3DExperience and comprehensive understanding of Ford CAD / GPDS processes, deliverables, and standards.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and tools like Jira in a leadership capacity.

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp‑up programs, subsidised 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.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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.