Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution!

OPmobility is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies. With a €11.4 billion economic revenue in 2023, a global network of 152 plants and 40 R&D centers, OPmobility relies on its 40,300 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.

A world leader in onboard energy storage and emission reduction systems, OPmobility C-Power develops solutions for all types of powertrains including, gasoline, diesel, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles. Electrification is the driver of low‑carbon mobility and with the E‑Power business, OPmobility is developing battery packs, electronics and power electronics for heavy‑duty mobility and light vehicles.

Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting‑edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.

MISSION

• Specify and validate the production equipment designs. Follow the construction of production equipment within the project timing and budget.
• Carry out the acceptance of the equipment at the supplier site and at the PO factory.
• Propose and implementing reliable innovations in machine design to improve performance, cost and robustness
• Train and develop new suppliers to PO internal requirements and standards
• Provide support to the factories and share know‑how

R responsibilities & Activities

Activity 1: Development of new resources and processes up to on‑site start‑up

• Act as the machinery project leader in front of the suppliers, industrial engineers and production sites
• Draft the machine specifications, participate in technical and economic negotiations of supplier offers with the buyer
• Carry out the launch, QCD management of the machine project within the supplier timing. Anticipate risks, control progress, assess the suppliers workload. Reduce drifts, modifications and amendments. Work as a team with the automation engineer, the plant and the project team.
• Validate the proposed solutions, technically supporting the supplier, ensuring compliance with the machine specification, the design guidelines and the PO standards
• Carry out the provisional acceptance at the suppliers (Machine performance, R&R, Run‑off, check‑list, balance of the action plan), and the final acceptance on site
• Support process development, production of first parts, R@R with the industrial engineer and the plant team members.

Activity 2: continuous improvement, capitalization of know‑how, standardization and innovation.

• Capitalize know‑how, formalize issues, countermeasures and feedback
• Create and update the standards, generic specifications and design guidelines
• Participated in failure analysis, 8D, quality and safety
• Complete the training modules
• Propose, study and validate innovations on projects under development
• Keeping a technology watch on suppliers and at trade fairs

Activity 3: Supplier development and training

• Communicate PO standards to suppliers and ensure that OP requirements are understood
• Ensure technology transfer to suppliers in a manner most appropriate to their needs
• Use training materials, design guidelines and specification in their development
• Assess supplier performance in terms of technical execution and project management.

Activity 4: Plant support

• Provide support to factories in the event of poor performance, after‑sales service or inadequate response times from suppliers
• Carry out debugging and process improvement actions on request (improvement of new equipment, modification of machines in serial production, etc.)
• Provide maintenance support in the event of major issue in the factory
• Conduct training for factories on the use of new machines or innovative processes

PROFILE REQUIREMENTS

Personal Background

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering / Industrial automation
• 5 years of experience in industrial or manufacturing functions. Automotive preferred
• Experience in battery pack assembly industrialization preferred
• English level B1
• Office tools

Job Technical skills

• Technical knowledge of automation, mechanics, electricity, CE requirements and machine conformity
• Operational management of projects
• Proven experience of special machine development in high volume, highly automated serial production
• Technical mastery of industrial processes and standards (machine design, errorproofing, process control)
• Problem solving tools (8D), Machine FMEA and DFM/A methods
• Knowledge of Ergonomics, lean manufacturing principles. Understanding of process capability
• Monitoring of changes

Job Soft skills

• Ability to work in cross‑functional teams
• Good verbal, written communication skills
• Curious, creative, persuasive and combative in order to overcome roadblocks
• Ability to work independently
• Good multicultural communication ability

As a responsible company, OPmobility pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.