Product Platform Development Engineer - CTBC

Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.

The ContiTech group sector develops and manufactures, for example, cross-material, environmentally friendly and intelligent products and systems for the automotive industry, railway engineering, mining, agriculture and other key industries. Guided by the vision of “smart and sustainable solutions beyond rubber,” the group sector draws on its long-standing knowledge of the industry and materials to open up new business opportunities by combining various materials with electronic components and individual services. 

Perform the product platform development for one Product Group of the Sector ContiTech with the following goals:

- Create and maintain a customer focused platform for one Product Group for all IND BA's with focus basically on one product family, focusing on consolidation of materials, components, global cost saving measures and sustainability

- Create product platform by collecting Bill of Material Data and creating the material and specification overview

- Develop strategic Product portfolio by defining strategic Materials and Specifications and ensuring to cover Product Requirements in all markets

- Aligning the Product Platform Strategy with the Regional Product Management, Product Development, Application Engineering, Material Platform Development and Operations

- Implement Activities driven by global Strategy and local Plant Activities within a Product Platform in the global Platform strategy and coordinate the activities with the regional teams

- Efficient project management in PLC D1 process landscape with steering of relevant communication to stakeholders.

- Lead: Project, Design review, Gate review

- Steer: Material Development, CAD, FEA, prototype production, product testing, Tech Centers, production concept, eCR for production and/or testing tooling/equipment (if needed), SCM concept, profitability check (including purchased components), first production run, benchmark

- knowledge and usage of basic quality tools, e.g. FMEA, Six Sigma

- Technical degree (min Bachelor) in engineering, material science or related area

- Experienced developer 

- Project management experience 

- Experience in development of new products

- Development of products

- Test concept development for products

- Material understanding 

-Development concept experience (DOE, etc.)

- Understanding of production concepts

- Experience as project leader

- Experience in international customer relations, cultural sensitivity 

- Good cross functional understanding 

- Excellent communication skills (native language & English)

- Understanding of business context

What we offer:

The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;

Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;

Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;

Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;

Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;

Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;

Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;

System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);

Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;

Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;

Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case by-case basis);

Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and. We reward employees who reach 15 and 20 years within the company with another day of vacation, reaching a maximum of 29 days.

Transport from the Timisoara area – You can choose to come with the bus provided by the company if you’ll work from the plant location/office;

Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;

Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.

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