Design Fabricator

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Join us in shaping the future of Ford Motor Company, as part of a global organization with exceptional colleagues in world-class facilities. As part of Ford Design, you’ll be at the cutting edge of Ford’s most strategically critical work, designing people and society’s needs into the heart of our next generation of products, services, and experiences.

As a Design Fabricator, you'll bring Ford's most ambitious design concepts to life—transforming clay models, sketches, and digital data into precision physical forms that shape the vehicles of tomorrow. Working hands-on with cutting-edge tools, materials, and fabrication techniques, you'll be the critical link between imagination and reality, turning a designer's vision into tangible models that influence real product decisions. You'll collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and modelers in a fast-paced studio environment, applying craftsmanship across mold making, metal and wood working, composite lay-up, surfacing, and finishing to deliver exterior and interior design proposals with precision and quality.

If you take pride in your craft, thrive on solving hands-on technical challenges, and want to see your work reflected in vehicles on the road, this is where skilled fabrication meets the future of mobility.

• Fabricate automotive design models—including molds, metal and wood components, composite lay-ups, surfacing, painting, trim, and assembly—for complete exterior and interior design proposals.
• Create experimental parts and ornamentation from clay models, sketches, engineering drawings, verbal direction, and math data to support the design organization.
• Safely operate a variety of hand tools, machinery, and fabrication equipment, with safety as a top priority on every project.
• Translate drawings, prints, and verbal concepts into precision fabricated forms, parts, and shapes.
• Confer with designers, engineers, and facility personnel to determine specifications and achieve project results.
• Collaborate with team members to make corrections and adjustments, ensuring projects are completed accurately and on time.
• Ensure all design projects conform to established design and quality standards.
• Develop new and innovative fabrication techniques to continuously improve the fabrication process.
• Manage multiple project timelines using strong personal organization skills to meet deadlines.
• Utilize computer systems as needed to support fabrication work.
• Participate in supplier site visits for offsite projects, when appropriate.
• Apply complex fabrication strategies to complete projects within allotted time frames.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 2 years of experience with machining and laser fabrication
• High level of understanding the requirements for physical model development and clay modeling techniques.
• Ability to work in a dynamic work environment with continuous change and willingness to learn new skills.
• Proficient at creative problem solving.
• Ability to understand engineering requirements and incorporate into physical models.

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 change maker, 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…