Brief description of the position:

• The position holder use industrial and professional knowledge to support suppliers selection and suppliers' ability improvement; to track the project progress and ensure the suppliers' industrialization plan since nomination to SOP; to evaluate and improve suppliers' production capacity and on-time delivery.

Key Tasks:

• Supporting suppliers evaluation during sourcing and nomination process:
• Coordinate and lead QTR meetings to support the selection of qualified suppliers in cooperation with other related departments, such as R&D and Quality.
• Participate and support the suppliers' process and products quality audit activities. Coordinating and leading Commitment meetings after supplier get nominated:
• Check product design; Confirm supplier's production concept, like out-sourcing component; Confirm investment scope, like plant, line, tooling and gauge.
• Fix a project timeline regarding the industrialization, product verification and production capacity ramp-up. Evaluating the product and production feasibility before product design frozen.
• Analyze the design plausibility and give optimization suggestions.
• Check the suppliers' manufacture concept to evaluate the manufacture feasibility, and give optimization suggestions.
• Regularly review and on-site check the actual project status based on the project timeline, define and implement actions to guarantee the project progress and samples delivery, and report the project status in committee and escalation meetings.
• On-site visit including Plant setup, Tooling fabrication, Tooling trial shooting, Production line setup and trial run, Trouble shooting, etc.
• Coordinating with R&D, Quality and Logistic department for OTS sample, EM sample submission and pre-series parts delivery.
• Tracking the EM verification progress and result, and take actions from the perspective of tooling to optimize the product.
• Ensuring the suppliers' production capacity: Evaluate suppliers’ production capacity in different project milestone, like regularly capacity planning, SFN1 pre-check, and SFN3 performance check.
• Confirm series capacity bottleneck, and support in finding measures for improvement.
• Implementing the permitted change from the perspective of industrialization and coordinate with Quality and Logistic for the delivery changeover. Design change from R&D department, i.e. Aeko.
• Supplier process change that permitted by VW related departments.

Qualification and skills required for the position:

• Bachelor/Master, majoring in Electrical & Electronic/ Mechanical/ Mechatronics/ Automotive/ Communication Engineering, Moduling or similiar.
• Overseas studying is a plus.
• 2 years more in automotive sector, preferably to the experience in a multinational automotive company as SQE, PM, or Toolmaker.
• Overseas working experience is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of vehicle electrical parts and related standards, like Battery, Control unit, Antenna, ADAS system, Display, Motor, Wire harness, etc.
• Good drawing reading ability, able to read English drawings.
• Fluent in oral & writing English or German.
• Excellent in Microsoft office.
• Good project management skill, Project management certificate (PMP or similar) is a plus.
• Target oriented work attitude with willingness to learn and taking responsibility; Team spirit; Communication skills; Conflict management ability; Traveling willingness