Participate in cft meetings
- estimate manufacturing costs and investment for industrialization process.
- lead and support plant operation activities to conduct launch builds.
- maintain overall program timing plan for manufacturing activities
- lead design for manufacturing activities and manufacturing feasibility assessments.
- review, implement and create best practices and lessons learn for new products.
- ensure proper implementation of manufacturing standards and process design.
- lead all manufacturing apqp activities and submit customer documentation as required.
- develop and maintain process documentation (process flow, pfmea, control plan, qps)
- monitor program costs against gate 2 commitments.
- prepare funding requests (par) and submit for approval.
- coordinate plant build activities with cross-functional teams.
- lead capability studies, msa and process statistical data.
- prepare ppap documentation and develop safe launch plans.
- monitor launch performance of new products.
- deploys visteon business practices, processes and systems regionally, developing local competence and expertize.
- ensures optimum flow of information and material between customers, plants and suppliers
- ensures that new programs under responsibility are planned and implemented in accurate/timely manner at planned costs.
- develop and review design prototypes, perform test and finalize product design to facilitate mass production (dfm).
- approve product design and test plans, review design and recommend adequate changes to the approved models before actual role out of new products.
- participate in workshops to promote continuous product improvement initiatives to the programs to be launched.
- prepare comprehensive project plans with technical objectives and detailed cost estimates.
- arrange weekly meeting with obo team to get final approval for the program industrialization.
- meet customer's timeline of launch programs.
- attend gate reviews and maintain reporting of launch phase activities.
- develops and evaluates manufacturing capacity, and methods, used for new product launch.
- recommends new equipment and manpower needs for new products.