Paint & Body Project Engineer 3

Job Overview

Leads the planning of productive or non-productive processes and concepts for the industrialization and manufacturing of automobiles according to standards for quality, productivity, ergonomics, safety, and economy. Drives initiatives to optimize processes, ensure compliance with standards, and achieve continuous improvement for a full shop such as Body, Paint, or Assembly.

Leads project work groups by defining priorities, implementing task management strategies, and conducting follow-up meetings to achieve project goals.

Responsibilities

• Perform advance, primary, and detailed planning of operations, working cycles, production equipment, and lead times for complete systems.
• Change and acquire production equipment or perform NISP programming based on rationalization measures.
• Prepare capacity comparisons, investment and capital expenditure analyses, overhead calculations, and production-time assessments.
• Coordinate suppliers, specialist departments, and subsystem planning.
• Plan complex production equipment, including equipment functions, processing phases, capacity, utilization, design, and procurement.
• Develop requirements and evaluate offers for complete systems and services.
• Support Procurement with technical issues related to negotiations.
• Coordinate and monitor setup, approval, acceptance, and initial utilization of complete systems.
• Demonstrate process capability, prepare acceptance reports, and track remediation measures.
• Optimize and document production workflows, layouts, material flows, equipment, tools, batch sizes, and standard times.
• Develop and monitor rationalization measures, production-time reductions, and procedural improvements.
• Participate in developing planning standards, tools, specifications, checklists, and process documentation.
• Manage cross-functional projects, including schedules, budgets, flow charts, project orders, settlements, targets, remediation measures, and status reporting.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Maintenance Engineering, or a similar field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant automotive manufacturing experience, including 2 years as a project leader or project manager in the automotive industry.
• Proficiency in project management, lean manufacturing, and ISO 9001 quality standards.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and control multiple full-plant projects.
• For electrical and electronic topics: NISP programming, Dimension 4, MoCa, Omnitracker, EE failure analysis, specialized equipment, IS tester commissioning, and software coding.
• Strong coordination, communication, analytical, collaboration, and negotiation skills.
• PMP certification is a plus.
• Spanish and/or German language skills are a plus.

Financial Responsibilities

Oversee budget tracking, cost monitoring, and reporting for capital and non-capital investments, ensuring cost efficiency and strategic resource allocation. May contribute budget recommendations for future projects.

This position is open to expatriate candidates.