R&D Engineer - Process Development and Modularity

R&D Engineer - Process Development and Modularity

Bridgestone

Rome, Italy

Responsibilities

You, as Engineer of System Engineering - Consumer Process Development team, will be responsible for:

• Green process design for the assigned REP lines, leveraging on BCMA standards and tools;
• Solution of quality issues through PDCA analysis and countermeasures before release assigned products in production, leveraging on well-born tires approach;
• REP operations, plant support and business trip: scale-up operations execution to grant new products release as per NPI workflow, including the attendance of on-site visit for plant trials (pre-industrialization activities, critical cases follow-up, widespread issue experiments);
• Tracing of differences between Green Tire master model and specific instances of the assigned plants;
• Analysis of industrialization outcome to confirm gaps and enhancement areas of the adopted models and tools;
• Contribute to the development and updating of new models and methods, leveraging on the data generated during industrialization in assigned plants.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Education, Master, other certification:

• Master’s Degree in Engineering (or equivalent).

Experience (years):

• Experience in tire manufacturing (or automotive) is a plus.

Technical Skills:

• Problem solving attitude and PDCA mindset;
• Basics of material characterization, former know-how of tire manufacturing process and tools is a plus;
• IT applications and programming: very good proficiency on MS Excel, knowledge of relational databases, Power BI and Python are a plus;
• Digital mindset: ability to develop and/or apply new digital tools to support decisions is a plus.
• Presentation skill

Languages Skills:

• Fluent in English (both written & spoken).

Soft/Behavioral Skills:

• Results oriented, self-motivated, creative and collaborative;
• Agility in learning, in adapting to change and in translating strategies into actionable plans;
• Ability to work within multicultural environment.