MANUFACTURING PROJECT LEADER

Competences requirements

• Knowledge / Qualification

• Previous Experience (If relevant)
• Key technical competencies

• Key behavioural competencies (on top of PO Group competencies)
• Other requirements

Bachelor’s with experience or Master’s degree

Manufacturing development and/or activities for automotive industry.

Senior assembly engineer or plant engineer.

Leadership, able to make clear synthesis, organized, rigorous, good communication, English, project management skills

Missions

• Missions

• KPI and/or main deliverables

• Manages the manufacturing engineering scope in a project
• Provides smart, simples, creative and robust solutions in order to make the project profitable
• Ensures cross functional management of the extended team
• Ensures lessons learned.

• OPTIMAP manufacturing work packages (EPROJ in lighting)
• Manufacturing metrics (labor, cycle time, indus. performances, ...)
• Manufacturing convergence tools/indicators ( MCI )

Activities

Areas to manage/follow up:

• Assembly readiness
• Decorating readiness
• Packaging readiness

Project Management:

• Defines initial Statement of Work of manufacturing perimeter including extended team, regarding project perimeter, development budget (hours, hourly rate, travel cost) and Optimap EPROJ Work Packages,
• Defines and sets up the project planning,
• Manages the manufacturing project reviews, consolidates actions and provides reporting and action plans,
• Participates to design reviews(TDR) reviews.
• Participates and lead Industrial concept sheet (ICS)
• Assures that the Launch Readiness (led by the Launch Manager) are well organized

Manufacturing:

• Works regarding to HSE requirements
• Can be involved in upstream phases of the project (expertise phase, acquisition phase),
• Depending on project size, will either take in account activities of the extended team,
• According to the project deliverable steps, defines global industrial scenario. This takes in account production process (paint, assembly) and supply chain (packaging, physical & information flows),
• Is accountable for the use of Plastic Omnium Manufacturing standards in a lean manufacturing way,
• Gives design for manufacturing requirements to product design and ensures the integration,
• Makes sure with the plant that its capacity is in line with project volumes,
• Is responsible for industrialization phase in production plant and SILs. For that purpose he/she takes the lead on the different manufacturing means after the transfer in plant done by the different metier technicians (PPx),
• Manages project Manufacturing economical perimeter (cycle time, number of operators, investments, and supply chain costs (transport, SILS)…). Tracks perimeter changes due to customer and reports to the PM,
• Makes sure the ind. Perf. are the best in class (non-added value activities are eliminated).

Budget management:

• Determines the project provisional budget (hours and cost)
• Allocates the budget to his extended team & guarantees resource availability with the manager
• Determines internal and external perimeter regarding SOW,
• Tracks perimeter changes due to customer or internal ones and reports to the PM. Proposes adjustments and modifications linked to perimeter evolution during project life time,
• Insures the follow up of project budget and releases warnings to PM and métiers managers in case of gaps.
• Contributes to investment optimization

Continuous Improvements:

• Participates to continuous improvements for job, organizations and methodology,
• Participates to capitalization and to productivity actions,
• Participates to definition and realization of progress plan,
• At the end of the project, participates to the closure of project and gives feedback regarding best practices and difficulties,
• Depending on the project size, he can also handle himself some activities of the extended team