Racing Engineering Supervisor, Additive Manufacturing

Ford Motor Company

Ford Racing Engineering Supervisor leading Additive Manufacturing initiatives for motorsport and road car applications. Drive innovation and optimize designs while collaborating with engineering teams.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeAllen Park • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $115,500 - $218,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identifying areas within the existing business to utilize Additive Manufacturing to improve timing for development cycles or investment avoidance
Identifying areas within our future business to utilize Additive Manufacturing to optimize designs for mass or other attributes
Using specific targeted applications, influence which technologies Ford should invest in or partner on.
You Will Lead The Overall Proliferation Of Additive Manufacturing within Ford Racing on both Motorsports and Road Car applications in the following ways:
Strategic Approach To The Business
By identifying specific uses for Additive technologies in the organization, grow internal capability by influencing which new Additive Technologies to pursue as a company including purchase of new capital equipment
Design the principles to determine which projects and technologies should be pursued by Ford Racing through internal and external capabilities
Identify strategic partnerships for equipment and outsourced capability.
Develop and deliver on key performance indicators (KPIs) for Ford Racing Additive Manufacturing efforts to appropriately measure growth
Drive and Facilitate Ford Racing Internally-Led Projects
Develop and lead a small team that will become the center-of-excellence for Additive Manufacturing technologies to guide D&R engineers through the design for manufacturing process and product launch.
Near term, work with Design and Release (D&R) engineers and development engineers to identify areas where Additive Manufacturing can help our in-flight programs by speeding up evaluation of design iterations or avoidance of capital spend for production tools.
Near term, work with D&R engineers and Architecture team to target specific systems, sub-systems, or components for Additive technologies in the up-front stage of future programs.
Longer term, take over coordination efforts of all existing Additive Manufacturing efforts for F1 Powertrain applications.
Represent Ford Racing In Externally (Non Ford Racing) Led Projects
Be single-point-of-contact for external partners to determine the appropriate involvement for Ford Racing on various corporate initiatives.
Coordinate efforts with appropriate program and functional teams as required.
Communicate program requirements (functional, timing, financials) to the external partners to ensure a path to success.
Travel - Limited in beginning to site visits for benchmarking. Opportunities for more optional travel may exist if desired (supplier or partner visits, etc). All Ford facilities are currently in Southeast Michigan.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors in Engineering
Deep Practical Additive Manufacturing experience including:
Design for Additive Manufacturing
Build set-up including orientation, support development, and slicing decisions
Build execution including machine set-up and part production,
Quality confirmation through various post-build scans or measurements
Practical Design and Release experience for automotive components. Must have basic understanding of the product development process and able to work intelligently with engineers
Self starter, highly motivated for success
Passion for winning that will not accept excuses for failure
Entrepreneurial mindset, able to make decisions based on overall value analysis
Masters of Engineering and/or Masters of Engineering Management and/or Masters of Manufacturing Engineering (even better)
Previous or current experience leading salary technical personnel (even better)
Extensive knowledge of other (non-Additive) manufacturing technologies for reference when determining whether Additive Manufacturing is appropriate for a particular application (even better)
Enthusiast background, with passion for enthusiast products or motorsports (even better).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Additive ManufacturingDesign for Additive ManufacturingBuild set-upMachine set-upPart productionQuality confirmationDesign and Release experienceProduct development processEvaluation of design iterationsCapital equipment purchase

Soft Skills

Self-starterHighly motivatedPassion for winningEntrepreneurial mindsetDecision makingLeadershipCommunicationInfluencingTeam developmentStrategic thinking

Certifications

Bachelors in EngineeringMasters of EngineeringMasters of Engineering ManagementMasters of Manufacturing Engineering