Senior Mechanical Designer – CATIA / Weld Tooling

TEC Group, Inc.; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TEC Group, Inc. in Warren, MI is seeking five Senior Mechanical Designers with CATIA weld-tooling experience to support automotive weld tooling projects at our engineering facility.

This is a tooling-design position, not automotive product design, with emphasis on weld fixtures and automated assembly tooling. Candidates must have significant CATIA experience designing weld tooling, fixtures, and automated equipment, and be able to develop detailed drawings and layouts for fabrication and

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of automotive weld-tooling design experience.
• Ability to interpret layouts, customer standards, specifications, and engineering drawings.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design automotive weld tooling and fixtures using CATIA.
• Develop 3D models, layouts, assemblies, details, and manufacturing drawings.
• Design tooling for automated automotive body-shop and welding applications.
• Incorporate clamps, pins, locating units, grippers, weld-gun access, sensors, and related tooling components.
• Review customer specifications and apply applicable tooling standards.
• Collaborate with project engineers, manufacturing-support teams, tool builders, and other designers.
• Support design reviews, engineering changes, build questions, and tooling corrections.
• Ensure designs are functional, manufacturable, and suitable for assembly and installation.
• Complete assigned projects in accordance with customer quality and timing requirements.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

CATIA

Job description

Senior Mechanical Designer – CATIA / Weld Tooling

We are seeking five experienced Senior Mechanical Designers to support automotive weld-tooling projects at the engineering facility in Warren.

This is a tooling-design position, not an automotive product design role. Candidates must have significant experience using CATIA to design weld tooling, fixtures, and automated assembly equipment.

Responsibilities

• Design automotive weld tooling and fixtures using CATIA.
• Develop 3D models, layouts, assemblies, details, and manufacturing drawings.
• Design tooling for automated automotive body-shop and welding applications.
• Incorporate clamps, pins, locating units, grippers, weld-gun access, sensors, and related tooling components.
• Review customer specifications and apply applicable tooling standards.
• Collaborate with project engineers, manufacturing-support teams, tool builders, and other designers.
• Support design reviews, engineering changes, build questions, and tooling corrections.
• Ensure designs are functional, manufacturable, and suitable for assembly and installation.
• Complete assigned projects in accordance with customer quality and timing requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of automotive weld-tooling design experience.
• Professional experience using CATIA for mechanical tooling design.
• Experience designing weld fixtures, BIW tooling, body-shop equipment, or automated assembly tooling.
• Ability to develop and detail tooling—not simply modify automotive product components.
• Understanding of tooling construction, manufacturing, assembly, and design-for-build principles.
• Ability to interpret layouts, customer standards, specifications, and engineering drawings.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with body-side, underbody, framing, geo, or respot tooling.
• Experience supporting designs through build, tryout, debug, or installation.
• Previous experience with an automotive automation or tooling integrator.