Principal Engineer II Launch

Description

Key Job Roles & Responsibilities :

• Participate in CFT meetings
• Estimate manufacturing costs and investment for industrialization process.
• Lead and support plant operation activities to conduct launch builds.
• Maintain overall program timing plan for manufacturing activities
• Lead design for manufacturing activities and manufacturing feasibility assessments.
• Review, implement and create best practices and lessons learn for new products.
• Ensure proper implementation of manufacturing standards and process design.
• Lead all Manufacturing APQP activities and submit customer documentation as required.
• Develop and maintain process documentation (process flow, PFMEA, Control Plan, QPS)
• Monitor program costs against Gate 2 commitments.
• Prepare funding requests (PAR) and submit for approval.
• Coordinate Plant Build activities with cross-functional teams.
• Lead capability studies, MSA and process statistical data.
• Prepare PPAP documentation and develop Safe Launch Plans.
• Monitor Launch Performance of new products.
• Deploys Visteon Business practices, processes and systems regionally, developing local competence and expertize.
• Ensures optimum flow of information and material between customers, plants and suppliers
• Ensures that new programs under responsibility are planned and implemented in accurate / timely manner at planned costs.
• Develop and review design prototypes, perform test and finalize product design to facilitate mass production (DFM).
• Approve product design and test plans, review design and recommend adequate changes to the approved models before actual role out of new products.
• Participate in workshops to promote continuous product improvement initiatives to the programs to be launched.
• Prepare comprehensive project plans with technical objectives and detailed cost estimates.
• Arrange weekly meeting with OBO team to get final approval for the program industrialization.
• Meet customer’s timeline of launch programs.
• Attend gate reviews and maintain reporting of launch phase activities.
• Develops and evaluates manufacturing capacity, and methods, used for new product launch.
• Recommends new equipment and manpower needs for new products.

Qualifications

Behaviors

Preferred

Team Player

Team Player : Works well as a member of a group

Leader

Leader : Inspires teammates to follow them

Innovative

Innovative : Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking

Dedicated

Dedicated : Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Motivations

Preferred

Ability to Make an Impact

Ability to Make an Impact : Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization

Goal Completion

Goal Completion : Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks

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