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Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2021, Continental generated sales of €33.8 billion and currently employs more than 190,000 people in 58 countries and markets. On October 8, 2021, the company celebrated its 150th anniversary.

The ContiTech group sector develops and manufactures, for example, cross-material, environmentally friendly and intelligent products and systems for the automotive industry, railway engineering, mining, agriculture and other key industries. Guided by the vision of “smart and sustainable solutions beyond rubber,” the group sector draws on its long-standing knowledge of the industry and materials to open up new business opportunities by combining various materials with electronic components and individual services.

Position responsible to establish & roll out reliable product and process industrialization processes for the BA, including coordination of all related activities to achieve budget and production targets (e.g. support scrap reduction and waste, improvement of cycle times, first pass yield). Furthermore, the PPI Engineer initiates and implements action plans for continuous improvement of all product and process industrialization relevant aspects of production in IAPAC plants.

Product Industrialization & Process Industrialization

▪ Manage product specific ramp-up or change projects (e.g. team setup, interfacing to business / customer organization, project planning and control, etc.) for e.g. new raw materials or new / relocated production processes.

▪ Maintain standarts related to production control plan requirements by BA (in close cooperation with Quality) according to standards provided by PD Material Processing Engineering and Sector.

▪ Maintain template process FMEA and ensure proper implemetnation by the BA Plants as needed according to conditions and standards.

Product and Process Improvement

▪ Drive production processes optimization regarding quality, efficiency and capability based on data and in cooperation with ME.

▪ Drive product optimization (e.g. raw material replacement) of articles in alignment with Product Development.

▪ Support proactive solving of quality issues regarding customer complaints and reject rate (in close cooperation with Q)

Training and Coaching

▪ Ensure the continous development of PPI employees in the Plants by coaching, sharing of knowledge, cross Plant lessons learned.

Monitoring and Reporting

▪ Execute product and process industrialization performance (KPI) monitoring and reporting (e.g. regarding cost, lead time, quality of product and process industrialization activities such as ramp-up projects).

▪ Implement measures to improve product and process industrialization performance.

Standardization

▪ Drive regional implementation of product and process industrialization standards

▪ Provide feedback and input for further development of standards regarding product and process industrialization processes (e.g. definition of production parameters, production flow plans, production control plans and work instructions, etc.), product and process industrialization IT tools (e.g. FMEA software) to Sector.

Time and Motion Studies

▪ define and maintain BA standards for article specific production master data (i.e. standard times, standard operation sheet, work combination table and standard work instruction) and support plants in implementation according to standards. Country specific regulations to be considered.

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