Role & Responsibilities
1. Managing and guiding the Launch and Change Management team within the plant (e.g. Project Manager Operations, C Sample Coordinator, ECM Specialist, Project Manager Series) to ensure an excellent launch of new products as well as a successful implementation of engineering changes and further cost improvements during the complete product life cycle till the end of production.
2. Ensuring full transparency within assigned projects, proactively reporting to different management levels (e.g., Plant Manager, Regional Head of Launch and Change Management), and escalating following company instructions if necessary.
3. Assuring that boundary conditions for successful cross-functional cooperation with relevant stakeholders (e.g., Program Management, Internal Factory, Manufacturing Engineering, Logistics, Technical Services, Quality, and other related departments) are established.
4. Accountable for the correct application and execution of the PEP and of company standards regarding processes, methods, and tools.
5. Conditionally taking over tasks of Project Manager Operations (PJO) for one or more complex projects.

Qualifications
A. Project Management
1. Proposing, agreeing, and following up on targets in terms of quality, costs, and timing with Project Management, on behalf of the Internal Factory Manager / Plant Manager.
2. Ensuring that project targets are being achieved or overachieved simultaneously or with priority to selected dimension(s). Monitoring launch and change performance, identifying gaps, and defining actions and countermeasures to correct/prevent deviations from target KPIs.
3. Ensuring the definition of members for Operations Project Teams (core and extended team), with the help of the functional departments. Assuring effective integration and communication within Operations Project Teams, including resolution of conflicts with functional departments.
4. Knowing and proactively advancing COMPANY standards for processes, methods, and tools in the field of Launch and Change Management, incl. relevant cross-functional Operations and Project Management standards.
5. Ensuring that project tasks and work packages within the Operations Project Teams are defined, planned, coordinated, and monitored by using predefined COMPANY standards.
6. Assuring that claim potentials resulting from engineering changes are identified and a valid status on engineering changes (e.g., change requests) with regards to their effects on project targets is maintained.
7. Understanding and knowing the product specifications and manufacturing process to the extent that they build a basis for profound decisions. Reflecting the effects of decisions on other departments (e.g., within Operations, Purchasing, Program Management, Quality Development, and Design).
8. Assuring that Design for Manufacturing with respect to state-of-the-art manufacturing technology is achieved (by collaboration between design, manufacturing/process engineering, equipment suppliers, etc.), yielding optimum cost, while complying with quality and productivity requirements.
9. Ensuring that all tasks and steps of the PEP are executed correctly with respect to quality, cost, and timing (e.g., production flow planning, selection of appropriate manufacturing processes and layouts, selection and procurement of production equipment, pre-acceptance, set-up and final acceptance of production equipment, Full Run, Run Rate).
10. Ensuring that creation, updating, and management of production-related documentation and master data is executed during the complete product life cycle according to standards and guidelines.
11. Involvement in internal and external project related audits.
12. Assure that projects within the plant follow corporate COMPANY processes and standards (e.g., C Sample Process, Engineering Change Management Process, Master Data Processes, Relocation Process).

B. Leadership
1. Deploying employees corresponding to their qualifications within the relevant structure. Instructing and supporting employees in a target-oriented and motivating manner to fulfill the tasks.
2. Guiding, instructing, and supporting employees in function-related tasks.
3. Participating in the hiring process and being responsible for sustaining the team performance and evaluation as well as qualification demands.

C. Job Profile / Requirements
1. Bachelor’s degree or above.
2. Over 5 years of Project management experience in automotive industry.
3. Good communication and problem-solving ability.
4. Very good English ability.

Company Profile
We divide our business into the Automotive Original Equipment and Aftermarket segments. The Automotive Original Equipment segment comprises the Lighting and Electronics Business Divisions. The customer base for this segment is made up of automakers and other automotive suppliers. This segment is strongly driven by technology and innovation; in particular, the megatrends of LED use in Lighting and energy management and CO2 reduction in Electronics offer attractive growth opportunities for both business divisions.

The Aftermarket segment includes the Independent Aftermarket (IAM) and the business with Special OE suppliers (SOE) such as manufacturers of buses, caravans, and agricultural and construction machinery. The Aftermarket segment is characterized by ongoing dynamic growth. Managing the different links in the value chain in the Aftermarket segment, consolidation among wholesalers, and the increasing technical sophistication required to accommodate increasingly complex electrical systems in vehicles all yield promising growth opportunities for the company.