Failure Management Specialist in Böblingen bei INEOS Automotive

Please apply with a CV and cover letter in English.

INEOS Automotive – Grenadier – Built On Purpose

Story so far

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.

If this sounds like you, let’s talk.

Your role: As a Failure Elimination Specialist at Ineos Automotive, you will focus on identifying, addressing, and eliminating failures through effective collaboration and communication. Internally, you will work closely with business unit partners, influencing and advising them on the significance of issue management, thereby promoting transparency and facilitating problem-solving methods. The job holder will serve as a crucial interface to After-Sales, facilitating seamless communication and collaboration across departments.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Oversee issue management, addressing deviations from specified products and services in line with Quality targets.
• Provide comprehensive support to all business units, offering necessary problem-solving methods such as Six Sigma, Delta Lyze, and 8D.
• Contribute to develop, implement, and enhance training programs for failure methods, acting as a trainer for problem-solving methods across all Ineos Automotive business units, including Operations, Engineering, Logistics, Supplier Quality, and After Sales.
• Lead the failure elimination process, ensuring the efficacy of defined measures.
• Collaborate with the After-Sales-Team to generate transparency on the failure landscape for the entire vehicle, pinpoint critical issues, and regularly report to the director's level in alignment with Business Units.
• Manage and guarantee the effectiveness of the lessons learned process.
• Establish, implement, and refine INEOS standards on Failure Elimination Processes (FEP) in collaboration with colleagues in Control Loops 1-4.
• Propel IT system improvements related to Failure Elimination Processes (FEP).
• The job holder is responsible for organizing, leading and participating different Quality committees like "Triage Meeting" and "Customer Feedback Meeting".

What we are looking for:

• Technical degree in engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience in Quality Management within the Automotive Industry.
• Professional expertise in problem-solving and failure elimination processes.
• Demonstrated experience in utilizing complex problem-solving methods such as Six Sigma, 8D, and others.
• Ability to identify and understand technical contexts.
• Proficiency in creating effective problem-solving methods tailored to Ineos Automotive.
• Strong team collaboration skills.
• High levels of empathy, excellent communication, motivation, and enthusiasm, with an ability to adapt to diverse people and situations.
• Exceptional organizational skills and a results-oriented mindset.
• Assertiveness, diplomacy, and moderation skills.
• Strong analytical thinking capabilities.
• Pragmatic approach and a good understanding of lean principles.
• Very good English language skills.
• Proficient in MS-Office applications.
• Willingness to travel for business trips.