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 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.

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

• Manage process specific industrialization projects (e.g. new equipment industrialization/upgrade old equipment) for e.g. new products, new materials, new production lines, according to standards.

• Translate business / project / product specific requirements into tangible impacts on plant (e.g. invest, capacity, capability) and assess plant readiness.

• Support to perform product specific testing and start-up of production process and pre-series production (e.g. ensure run@rate) and handover to production (series) according to standards.

• Support of product specific process FMEA updates according to local conditions and standards.

• Support product specific customer releases (PPAP, e.g. for initial series process or after product or process changes incl. initial sample test report, etc.) according to standards (e.g. trigger matrix)

• Identify and implement process optimization potential (e.g. raw material replacement) in running articles in alignment with central (segment, BA) product development or similar function according to standards.

• Solve proactively quality issues regarding customer complaints and reject rate (in close cooperation with Quality) according to standards.

• Initiate and implement continuous improvementmeasures.

• Responsible for the technical solutions provided by his team, for his area of ​​responsibility.

• Provides information on his / her team's projects / activities.

• Plan and monitor the execution of all activities, in order to meet the agreed deadlines.

• Assign service tasks to his team, in accordance with the defined responsibilities, training and ability of each, with the involvement of the direct superior when necessary, in order to increase team performance.

• Prepare and present the required administrative / technical reports.

• Escalates to the direct superior, the problematic situations, which require decisions / approvals / revisions, from the superior management

• Experience in Automotive Industry - Minimum 5 years

• Experience with CAPEX projects (budget planning, expenditure tracking).

• English - Advanced

• Problem solving and decision-making tools and techniques.

• Product knowledge (functionalities and applications).

• Product and process industrialization related technologies, systems, infrastructures, standards and processes.

• Great attention to detail and organizational skills.

• Ability to make decisions under pressure

What we offer:

• The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;

• Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;

• Hybrid schedule – Work-life balance is important, so we offer a flexible schedule. Please agree on this with your superior;

• Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;

• Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;

• Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;

• Sports benefits - It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;

• Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens etc;

• System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);

• Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;

• Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;

• Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a caseby-case basis);

• Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and, afterwards from 2 to 2 years you’ll get one more extra day (the maximum you can achieve is 27);

• Transport from Timisoara area – You can choose to come with the bus provided by the company if you’ll work from the plant location/office;

• Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;

• Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.

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