Job Description
Experience Range 3 to 5 Years
The main responsibilities of the Industrial Program Leader are:
- As a Program Core Team member, acting as the interface between the Program and the Plant, representing the Plant by participating to core team meetings and Program Reviews.
- Coordinating industrial work packages and ensuring their accomplishment through a strong functional leadership of an extended team (Capacity planner, industrial footprint analysis, Capex, and plant main functions: PC&L, Engineering Change Coordinator (ECC), Production, Process specialists, Maintenance, Purchasing, Controlling, Quality/HSE, IT, HR)
The main missions of the role are:
- INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Full ownership of all Industrial Development activities of the Program:
- Responsible for the work packages execution for the Industrial Development of the Program at the Plant: industrial footprint, CAPEX definition, Plant equipment selection (new / reuse / share), Plant layout, internal flows, industrial trials …
- Responsible for the launch planning and budget from definition till execution
- Participate in the development of Make or Buy strategy in accordance with Purchasing, Program and Plant(s)
- Be responsible for HSE and ergonomic convergence in the Plant
- PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
- On behalf of the plant, approval of all upstream Process Development activities (M-BOM, Production Line Definition, Equipment List, Tooling & Equipment Definition & Sourcing from supplier kick off until final acceptance, HSE & Ergonomics)
- PRODUCTION LAUNCH
- Management of launch activities (Run at Rate) at the Plant and staffing of the extended support team until the full validation.
- Support the production during the ramp-up after the handover to the Plant
- Support Engineering Change Management as necessary
- TARGETS AND REPORTING
- Leadership for all Industrial Development objectives for his/her program(s) at the plant
- Launch status, Launch Cost, respect of CAPEX
- Launch Cost performance, Program Launch Report (PLR), Process and Machine Capabilities, line capacity, Direct Labor, PPM, Scrap-rework rate, change over time and on-time delivery
- Optimize the CAPEX through the footprint, capacity analysis and the equipment selection
- Ensure the Industrial Development milestones are passed successfully and on time
- Report all Industrial Development risk analyses and associated action plans
- Report on Plant launch activities to the Plant
Qualifications
- Minimum Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- 3 to 5 years of professional experience in Product/Process Engineering, Manufacturing, tooling design preferably in the automotive industry
- Project Management, Problem solving & Conflict Management skills, Customer focus
- Mastering Equipment/Tooling specifications, GD&T, P-FMEA and Control Plan
- Lean Manufacturing (One piece flow, SMED, KANBAN, HOSHIN workshop, etc.)
- Understanding Finance Basics (Costing, Investments, plant P&L)
- Minimum bi-lingual (English required)