Group Leader PI Construction - Tires

Group Leader PI Construction - Tires

Continental

Timisoara, Romania

Your tasks

• Oversee and manage a group of engineers responsible for the industrialisation of new products and processes;
• Ensures the onboarding of new team members as coach;
• Actively monitor the performance of team members and identify improvement measures;
• Optimize the performance of each team member;
• Optimize the team performance;
• Assure planning and execution prototype tires building in according with central requirements and plant capacity;
• Set methods/procedure to support prototype quality and efficiency according to corporate and plant standards;
• Assure in time introduction of new technologies to support new product introduction;
• Prioritize and plan the start of production in accordance with corporate requirements and plant capacity;
• Looks for new ways to improve efficiency, product quality, reduce complexity and costs;
• Coordinates and monitors the progress of the start of production phase and ensure implementation of improvement measures;
• Monitors initial production and identify quality improvement measures to ensure successful and in time completion of product introduction phase;
• Initiate risk assessment of new technologies;
• Keep a balance between new technologies and complexity in the plant;
• Offers support in case of problems with certain products or processes;
• Develop new guidelines to improve product quality;
• Collaborates with Design, Process, Manufacturing departments to solve product and production problems;
• Manages the introduction of new products and the technical assistance of production, for a specific product or group of products, after the transfer from the design to the internal production.

Your profile

• Technical University Degree - preferred Mechanical/Mechatronics;
• Previous professional experience as Product Industrialization Construction Engineer, minimum 5 years;
• Advanced systems for tires specifications and evaluation tools;
• Specific product knowledge (component specification, components Bill of Materials, component calculation);
• Design guideline knowledge (central and plant guideline);
• SPS methodology and tools;
• Previous experience in external projects, in an international setting;
• Previous experience in leading teams/strategic projects;
• English - minimum B2.