Job Description

Purpose of the Role
Tata Motors Design is an Inspired team of over 200 designers, sculptors, and professionals, co-located across 3 studios in Pune (India), Warwick (U.K.) and Turin (Italy). The division is Responsible for the Design of commercial vehicles, passenger cars and Personal electric mobility. We are looking for energetic, talented, and highly skilled Clay Modellers.
Job Responsibility

• The relentless pursuit of perfection and constant improvement of knowledge, techniques, processes efficiencies and collective skills
• Works as creative clay sculptor, able to work and refine the surfaces on the milled clay model as well as convert 2d sketches /Section information to 3D Clay model.
• Develops clay model surfaces from technical drawings, design drawings and rendering.
• Interact with designers and follow their vision and convert ideas to clay surfaces.
• Uses digitizing equipment as required to retrieve data and input points on the models
• Maintains shop and studio equipment and tools in a clean and orderly manner
• Follow and maintain studio safety protocols

Stakeholder Profiles & Nature of Interactions

• Design and Development Team
• Creative Team
• Digital (CAD/CAS) Team

Desired Candidate Profile

• Education: Bachelors / Diploma or Professional Design training for Clay modelling
• Relevant Experience: Over 5-10 years of relevant experience
• Very good understanding of symmetry, surface highlights
• Highly skilled with clay tools, Di-Noc film application, modelling tapes and other tools usually deployed during the clay model development
• Familiar with other proto mediums used including hard foam, paper boards and paint application process.
• Basic knowledge of Milling programming

Skills & Competencies

• Agility - Agility is best demonstrated by tenacity to achieve challenging goals and adapting to a variety of situations, individuals or groups.
• Risk taking - Risk taking is best demonstrated by questioning status quo and taking on challenges despite uncertainties
• Empowerment - Empowerment is best demonstrated by sharing authority as well responsibility for decision making and stretch team capabilities to maximize results
• Owner' Mindset - Owner' Mindset: Developing a sense of being enterprising, understanding the purpose of delivering superior business results and having a stake in it by being accountable for quality and success of the outcomes, delivered through concrete action.
• Accountability - Accountability is best demonstrated by taking full responsibility of the task and holding each other accountable for the outcomes
• Collaboration - Collaboration is best demonstrated by working effectively with internal / external partners and Sharing information, ideas and expertise with others
• Passion for customer - Passion for customer is best demonstrated by sustainably implementing practices that meet customers' needs and building productive alliances with customers / stakeholder
• Embrace Diversity with inclusion