OPEI Engineer

Job Title

FORVIA HELLA is a listed international automotive supplier. As a company of the FORVIA Group, FORVIA HELLA stands for high-performance lighting technology and vehicle electronics and, with the Lifecycle Solutions Business Group, also covers a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special vehicles. With currently around 36,500 employees at over 125 locations, the Company is active worldwide and generated adjusted sales of €8.1 billion in fiscal year 2024.

Your Tasks

Overall responsibilities and duties:

• Improvement of productivity and economic efficiency in the production area assigned with the help of industrial engineering methods of work and system design under ergonomic, material flow and value-adding aspects and by means of support of the compensation types and work time models introduced in compliance with operational and pay scale agreements
• Coordinating Forvia Excellence System (Forvia ES) deployment
• Carrying out some improvement measures within production and in functions close to production to increase efficiency during assembly, preproduction, logistics and administration
• Assuring of an up-to-date and reliable data basis for calculation, capacity planning and costing and for the continuous improvement process by acquiring data, among other things, of main and secondary processing times, additional and waiting times and setup times and associated indices

The main missions of the role are:

• Operational Excellence
• Provide support in the implementation of the respective tools, ensuring coherence and uniformity of the methods and tools in cooperation with the plant manager
• Support the coordination of the deployment of Forvia Excellence System (Forvia ES) and implement the fundamentals of the processes of "Production System" and "Plant Management" in Forvia ES
• Investigate the production and production-affiliated areas with the aim of illustrating improvement potentials in the workflow and setup organization, as well as analyzing causes and deriving appropriate measures
• Involvement in preparing suggestions for improvement; Initiating improvement processes based on the procedure to be used (Forvia ES); implementing suggestions for improvement as well as necessary measures; forwarding the results to the functions responsible
• Analyze improvement projects with regard to workflows, IE tasks, logistic concepts, processes and work systems in the production and service areas
• Prepare and supporting the implementation of standards for technical or organizational processes and logistic workflows, taking the production system into account together with the functions responsible
• Qualify and guide the Kaizen/Hoshin workshop process within the company in cooperation with the functions responsible
• Support transition of projects from I2P to O2F in realizing new projects (products) in terms of production related matters (design to manufacturing); supporting the exchange of experience between production and development (lessons learned)
• Carry out success checks for measures initiated by comparing business management data in cooperation with those responsible (sustainability checks)
• Take over the function of contact for the subject of 'lean production', Standard Work, MTM, SAP routings – Master Data as well as communicating the subject to executives and staff
• Instruct, guide and support the Operational Excellence employees at locations
• Industrial Engineering
• Cooperate in the designing of work systems with the aim of improving the productivity of production process flows under ergonomic aspects
• If applicable, triggering of correction by the process/production scheduler or independent updating of the industrial engineering data and fields of the routing
• Check of adherence to planned working method and calculated cycle times in the launch phase (launch support), updating and processing of the indices ''open rating data'' and ''te change''
• Accountable for ERP PP-AV Master Data regarding work centers, routings (incl. component allocation) and production versions according AD-00111 and AD-00140
• Training of ME Key-Users, MEs and IEs regarding work centers, routings (incl. component allocation) and production versions
• Accountable for creation of work centers, active use (e.g. CR01, CR02); create data according to guidelines (F3050); owner "SAP PP-AV Expert" SAP role
• Group Work (Production)
• Coordinate comprehensive and sustainable group work application by continuous support of groups, group leaders and supervisors
• Ensure concept related qualification of groups, group leaders and supervisors, carrying out appropriate training measures in line with given standards
• Take responsibility for solving problems during the proper implementation of and adherence to agreed targets and performance indicators of the related group work concept
• Control and report group work related KPIs
• Support of production bonus implementation projects and proper problem solving in case of obstacles

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor in Engineering or related field
• More than 1 year of industrial engineering or operational optimization experience
• Automobile related industries experience
• Proficiency in industrial software (e.g., AutoCAD, SAP), data analysis tools (e.g., Excel), and lean methodologies (e.g., 5S, Kaizen)
• Familiar with manufacturing processes
• Good communication skill, responsibility, positive thinking
• English workable
• Learning agility
• Collaborates with others

Even if you do not meet all our requirements, do not hesitate to apply to us, because the further development of our employees is very important to us and opens up a wide range of opportunities for you in our company. FORVIA HELLA stands for the variety of all employees. Inclusion and diversity are firmly anchored in our company culture. We are continuously looking for new team players and welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethical and social background, age, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or identity. Please send us your application via our career portal, stating your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date, with the reference number req17505.

Mi Zhang mi.zhang@forvia.com