R&D System (Product) - Engineer

R&D System (Product) - Engineer

Bridgestone

Rome, Italy

Job Purpose

We are on a transformation journey to shape a sustainable future of mobility, with the aim to contribute to transform towards being a Sustainable Solutions Company. BS reply to such evolving market is based on Dan-Totsu products and talents of our people. The articulated product portfolio developed to match these ambitions needs to be timely implemented in our plants, securing proper performance & quality level for our production.

Mission of R&D System Engineering Consumer Replacement Industrialization & Modularity team is to: secure portfolio availability on time on schedule, deliver modular products and contribute effectively to Zero-Trial and Industrialization Excellence visions by actionable steps that define the portfolio of initiatives, methods and tools for lean scale-up and product capability expansion.

Responsibilities

You, as Engineer of System Engineering - Consumer Replacement Industrialization & Modularity team, will be responsible for:

• NPI milestones completion, from design to scale & qualify, by supporting CFT discussions and taking necessary actions to provide expected deliverables (i.e. scale-up risk assessment, industrialization models, scale-up risk management);
• Industrialization operations: technical documentation preparation, industrialization trials follow-up (data analysis, countermeasures feedback), interacting with stakeholders within & outside R&D, issue mass production specifications to secure execution as per plan;
• Critical cases design review, to tackle specific or chronical issue during industrialization interacting with plant TS and System Engineering process development team;
• Perform gap analysis, leveraging on data gathered during industrializations, through PDCA & 5why approach, to develop and feed kaizen visions of working processes and/or properly feedback stakeholders upstream & downstream;
• Products portfolio dashboard maintenance and management.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Education, Master, other certification:

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

Experience (years):

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

Technical Skills:

• Problem solving attitude and PDCA mindset;
• IT applications and programming: very good proficiency on MS Excel, knowledge of relational databases, Power BI and Python, CAD software previous experience is 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.