BIW and Exteriors Trim Team Leader

Italdesign is an Italian design and engineering company specializing in automotive, transportation, and product development sectors.

Based in Moncalieri (Turin) with over 1,300 employees worldwide, it has been innovating and working with top car makers and emerging players for more than 57 years.

Renowned for its important role in car design, Italdesign has developed iconic vehicles and offers comprehensive services spanning exterior and interior design, prototyping, engineering, and turnkey project management. Its vertical integrated approach ensures seamless support to clients, from the first idea to homologation and series production, delivering solutions tailored to client needs.

Italdesign also develops new technologies and fosters advancements in mobility and prototyping. In recent years, it has expanded into electronic systems development, including infotainment, ADAS, high-voltage batteries, and Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). This blend of technical expertise and creative design makes it a leader in the industry.

Since joining the Audi Group in 2010, Italdesign has grown and created innovative solutions, combining aesthetics and functionality to pioneer cutting-edge solutions that meet the market demands. In 2025 Italdesign obtained the Top Employers Certification for the tenth year in a row.

Italdesign is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Team Leader to become part of the Ultra Limited Series body development team, with particular focus on BIW and Exteriors trim. You will be responsible for coordinating, managing and ensuring target achievement in the assigned competence field.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the integration and the required performances of the different vehicle systems, within the competence field;
• Ensuring and monitoring the robustness of the Typical sections, base for the Design convergence phase;
• Ensuring and monitoring the robustness of the Data released for tooling kick off and production (3D / 2D);
• Managing and coordinating the work team, including cooperation with other departments, customers, engineering partners and product suppliers;
• Ensuring alignment on technical specifications between teamwork, departments and customer;
• Defining and monitoring a time / budget planning and managing project workload;
• Ensuring the achievement of the project's technical objectives relevant for the competence field;
• Managing the "escalation" process on issues related to the competence field.

Key requirements

• At least up to 5 years of experience in engineering development on the automotive field;
• Knowledge of body and trim development for production;
• Knowledge of materials and production technology with particular attention to Composites and Aluminium;
• Knowledge of tooling lead time;
• Knowledge of main characteristics affecting target / performances;
• Knowledge on how to deal with and interpret Design model;
• Ability to transform technical contents / targets into economic / geometric constraints into feasible process solutions;
• Ability to organize and motivate a teamwork depending on needs and contingent situations;
• Problem solving and ability to synthesize information;
• Priority management, proactivity, flexibility, resilience;
• Ability to manage component and system suppliers;
• Decision making skills combined with an assertive and persuasive leadership style;
• Ability to anticipate, manage critical situations and provide effective solutions.

Preferential requirements

• Technical drawing and modeling (CAD processes, basic knowledge of Catia 5 and data release systems);
• Quality standards, processes, dynamics according to customer (OEM) process and requirements;
• Legislative, homologation, rating constraints;
• Knowledge of component validation methods and procedures (eg. testing specifications);
• Ability to transfer methodology and know how in your own project team and to the rest of the department team.

Additional Information

Education : Technical High School degree and / or Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive, Materials engineering or equivalent;

Language skills : Fluent knowledge of written and spoken Italian and English are required. Knowledge of German would be appreciated;

Business trips : availability to travel frequently;

Benefit : continuous training (technical, soft and languages skills), company canteen, health insurance, car leasing program, smart working, flexible benefits, good work-life balance.

Italdesign is committed to create an inclusive, diverse and safe workplace, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer (L.903 / 77).

We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of the gender, ethnic, religion, sexual orientation, disability, parental status, or social origin.