Quality Project Engineer in Böblingen bei INEOS Automotive

INEOS Automotive – Grenadier – Built On Purpose

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Since Sir Jim Ratcliffe announced Project Grenadier in 2017, our team at INEOS Automotive has grown rapidly. From a start-up to the scaled business we are now, we’ve hit some huge milestones along the way. Despite some global challenges, we brought our first vehicle, the INEOS Grenadier, from a vision to prototype and to market in just five years. And now, as the first customer deliveries of our INEOS Grenadier have begun, we look to the future with our first all-electric vehicle.

People and Culture

With around 1500 employees, 10 locations and 44 nationalities, we’re an international team working together to challenge the ordinary. We welcome people who mirror our values: Spirit of ownership, who take responsibility and make things happen. Delivering quality work, with ambition to deliver outstanding results and who have a community mindset, believing together everyone achieves more. Creativity and initiative are encouraged to support your career development.

We’re doing things differently.

Your role: You will manage the product and process maturity of our projects by providing continuously transparency on the level of maturity and the critical paths in the project timelines for all relevant project members, in case of deviations appropriate actions will be defined and implemented. You´ll have a close collaboration with Programm Management and Engineering on timeline, milestones and product reviews as well as with business partner in Engineering, Operations, Procurement, SCM, SQE and Commercial plus external services providers (approx. 3)

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Provide Quality knowledge for the (further) Development of a product development process which represents the company´s / the product´s and the customers needs
• Ensure the product quality criteria in project phase
• Responsibility for the (quality) risk management in the projects
• Definition and alignment of product standards to achieve the Quality KPIs in the projects
• Plan, organize and conduct product/quality reviews of new projects, define and review measures in case of deviation
• Create transparency of the critical path in the overall timelines (e.g. Engineering, operations, procurement, logistics, …) of new product projects, define measure to hit the project milestones
• Escalation of main (quality) risks in new product projects to line manager
• Initiate design to quality, risk and maturity measures to ensure product quality and to safeguard our (quality) KPIs (key performance indicators)
• Conduct quality assessments for product and process topics during project phase, represent the quality and product standards in new product projects
• Coordination Quality approval and release
• Create, align and provide maturity reports to the management on a regular basis

What we are looking for:

• Technical degree in engineering or similar studies
• min. 3-5 years experience in Quality Management and in Automotive Industry - especially in the field of automotive new product projects (either in strategy, engineering, operations or quality)
• Professional experience in the field of launch process and/or product development processes in automotive industry
• Ability to create new quality standards and project KPIs
• High technical understanding in automotive industry
• High empathy and very good communication skill, motivation skill and enthusiastic capacity – ability to adapt to diverse people and situations
• High organizational skills and result orientation
• Assertiveness, diplomacy, moderation skills
• Good analytical thinking
• Pragmatism and a good understanding of lean principals
• Very good English skills
• Willingness to travel for business trips