Contechs
Expert Designer - Exterior
Coventry
Posted about 18 hours ago
How your CV stacks up
1Upload CV
2Analyse CV
3Improve CV
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Position Title: Expert Designer - Exterior
Duration: Permanent
Location: Coventry
We are recruiting for our Coventry based Automotive customer who are looking to add an Expert Designer - Exterior to their permanent team.
Primary Purpose of the Job:
To support the Creative Exterior Design teams.
Main Responsibilities:
- Participate in all elements of exterior design yet fundamentally to lead all development of concept ideas, renderings, tracking the digital models and clay models.
- Good at cross-cultural communication and interpretation and complete the design plan according to the requirements.
- Cooperate and guide the digital and physical model design.
- Use display software’s to complete the analysis of product modelling reports, concept ideas, rendering expressions, etc.
- Have experience in automotive design, with matured hand-drawing foundation and rendering ability, able to quickly capture creative ideas.
- Photo realistic images of your design work.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Principle Contacts/Working Relationships:
- Role will report to Design Chief
- Working with the exterior team, especially with the Principal Exterior Designer
- Role will have deep cooperation with China team
Decision Making Scope:
- Define structure design concept;
- Verification strategy of architecture.
Key Challenges:
- Communicating with Management and Key Stakeholders to get projects progressed through key gateways and senior reviews.
- Interacting with multiple members of the design and engineering teams to produce the best possible designs.
Education, Training and Experience:
- 8 years of experience in automotive styling with key specific input to conceptual design (experience in OEM is preferred, depending on the ability to ease the number of years required);
- Participate in 5 or more exterior styling design mass production projects; experience in creative design of luxury brand exterior/interior is preferred;
- Familiar with exterior surface design and engineering constraints, with a good balance of design and constraints;
- Industrial design and transportation design background from art colleges preferred;
- Programs: Photoshop Illustrator Showcase Adobe Alias Adobe V Red and AI software.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Skills & Personal Characteristics Required:
- 8 years+ of senior level Exterior Design with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive industry. Skilled in Design Management, Alias Studio Tools, Lateral Thinking, and Sketching.
- Strong arts and design professional with a master’s degree focused on Automotive Design.
- Excellent sketch and rendering presentation skills;
- Excellent communication skills, learning ability and teamwork spirit;
- Proficiency in Photoshop, AI, Alias, Vred and other drawing software’s.
- Visionary and forward thinking
- Stay up with date with design trends
- Diplomatic and collaborative
- Resilience
Trusted by 25,000+ job seekers
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Automotive Design
Design Management
Sketching
Rendering
Communication
Teamwork
Photoshop
Illustrator
Alias
Vred
Creative Design
Conceptual Design
Cross-Cultural Communication
Digital Modeling
Clay Modeling
Lateral Thinking