BU INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution!

OPmobility is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies. With a €11.4 billion economic revenue in 2023, a global network of 152 plants and 40 R&D centers, OPmobility relies on its 40,300 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.

A world leader in onboard energy storage and emission reduction systems, OPmobility C-Power develops solutions for all types of powertrains including, gasoline, diesel, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles. Electrification is the driver of low-carbon mobility and with the E-Power business, OPmobility is developing battery packs, electronics and power electronics for heavy-duty mobility and light vehicles.

Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.

MISSION 

• Specify and validate the production equipment designs. Follow the construction of production equipment within the project timing and budget.
• Carry out the acceptance of the equipment at the supplier site and at the PO factory.
• Propose and implementing reliable innovations in machine design to improve performance, cost and robustness
• Train and develop new suppliers to PO internal requirements and standards
• Provide support to the factories and share know-how

Responsibilities & Activities 

Activity 1: Development of new resources and processes up to on-site start-up

• Act as the machinery project leader in front of the suppliers, industrial engineers and production sites
• Draft the machine specifications, participate in technical and economic negotiations of supplier offers with the buyer
• Carry out the launch, QCD management of the machine project within the supplier timing. Anticipate risks, control progress, assess the supplier's workload. Reduce drifts, modifications and amendments. Work as a team with the automation engineer, the plant and the project team.
• Validate the proposed solutions, technically supporting the supplier, ensuring compliance with the machine specification, the design guidelines and the PO standards
• Carry out the provisional acceptance at the supplier's (Machine performance, R&R, Run-off, check-list, balance of the action plan), and the final acceptance on site
• Support process development, production of first parts, R@R with the industrial engineer and the plant team members.

Activity 2: continuous improvement, capitalization of know-how, standardization and innovation.

• Capitalize know-how, formalize issues, countermeasures and feedback
• Create and update the standards, generic specifications and design guidelines
• Participated in failure analysis, 8D, quality and safety
• Complete the training modules
• Propose, study and validate innovations on projects under development
• Keeping a technology watch on suppliers and at trade fairs
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Activity 3: Supplier development and training

• Communicate PO standards to suppliers and ensure that OP requirements are understood
• Ensure technology transfer to suppliers in a manner most appropriate to their needs
• Use training materials, design guidelines and specification in their development
• Assess supplier performance in terms of technical execution and project management.  

Activity 4: Plant support

• Provide support to factories in the event of poor performance, after-sales service or inadequate response times from suppliers
• Carry out debugging and process improvement actions on request (improvement of new equipment, modification of machines in serial production, etc.)
• Provide maintenance support in the event of major issue in the factory
• Conduct training for factories on the use of new machines or innovative processes

PROFILE REQUIREMENTS 

Personal Background

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering / Industrial automation
• 5 years of experience in industrial or manufacturing functions. Automotive preferred
• Experience in battery pack assembly industrialization preferred
• English level B1
• Office tools 

Job Technical skills

• Technical knowledge of automation, mechanics, electricity, CE requirements and machine conformity
• Operational management of projects
• Proven experience of special machine development in high volume, highly automated serial production
• Technical mastery of industrial processes and standards (machine design, errorproofing, process control)
• Problem solving tools (8D), Machine FMEA and DFM/A methods
• Knowledge of Ergonomics, lean manufacturing principles. Understanding of process capability
• Monitoring of changes

Job Soft skills

• Ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Good verbal, written communication skills
• Curious, creative, persuasive and combative in order to overcome roadblocks
• Ability to work independently
• Good multicultural communication ability

As a responsible company, OPmobility pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.