Exterior trims (TT69ST RM 4474)

Source-Right; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Source-Right is seeking an experienced professional to lead exterior trims development projects in Chennai. You will oversee planning, validation, and industrialization of components, ensuring alignment with OEM design systems and regulatory requirements.

The role requires a strong background in automotive exterior trims, a proven track record in project management, and the ability to drive cross-functional teams across design, validation, and suppliers to meet QCDP targets.

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience in automotive programs.
• Experience with exterior trims components.
• Strong communication and coordination across teams.

Responsibilities

• Monitor schedules and deliverables for exterior trims projects.
• Coordinate development with design, validation and suppliers.
• Manage BOM and OEM documentation for project milestones.
• Ensure QCDP targets are achieved across milestones.

Skills

Project management

Automotive exterior trims

Cross-functional coordination

Education

BE/B.Tech in Mechanical/Production/Automotive Engineering

Tools

Catia V6

Microsoft Project

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Position: Exterior trims (TT69ST RM 4474)

Scope of Role

To achieve the Quality, Cost and Delivery Targets for the Project

To manage the operations of development, validation and industrialisation of the components of his scope in compliance with OEM Design System and the technical regulation requirements

To manage the convergence of the carry-over/carry across rate after the Pre-Contract

Qualification: BE/B. Tech in Mechanical/Production/ Automotive Engineering

Area of Responsibility

• Monitoring the Function Group:
• Makes the part-to-part or equipment-to-equipment schedule
• Monitors the activities (schedules the meetings, system deliverables of which the monthly instrument panel…)
• Defines, frames and contributes to the decision of technical solutions created and validated with the Development team, allowing to accomplish the QCDP objectives
• Creates the QCDP and considers the results and system forecasts (for the serial life monitoring of the eco plan) with respect to the schedules.
• Monitors the achievement of the milestone results
• Creates and monitors the necessary task-forces
• Monitoring the development operations:
• Indicates and deploys the QCDP objectives in view of the design and request for bid and allocation of the suppliers
• Monitors the entries/exits between the Development team and Design, and monitors the Design feasibility with the Development team
• He/she is responsible for the representativeness for the parts digitisations in compliance with the project milestones
• Assists in creating the typical packaging sections, input data for the producing digitisations
• Manages the execution of documentary deliverables & makes specify the BOM managed in OEM System
• Based on the Development team does the technical documentation and OEM process:
• Prepared by the PFE and presented to the signatories by the PFE
• Files for change: Signed by the PFE and/or Metier Team
• He/she is responsible for adherence to the document milestone for his/her scope
• He/she is the only leader to whom the OEM System Base questions of his/her scope are allocated. He/she reports their processing progress. Ensures in resolving the questions and monitors its application to the vehicle
• He/she is in charge of the quality of his/her development:
• Ensures the scheduling of OEM quality expectations and specifies the expectations for intermediate milestones
• Coordinates and monitors the development based on the OEM quality procedure
• Monitors the relation with the supplier by links with the Purchase Department:
• Ensures that the OEM input data is provided to the supplier
• Contractualization the development schedule, production schedule (PSW) with the supplier
• Ensures the convergence of the expectations for PSW
• Ensures that the suppliers results of the POEs (purchased-out part) in his scope are obtained based on the Development team. In the case of him validating the results, documenting the database of the OEM Quality monitoring
• Ensures that the OEM participants validate the supplier results following the defined Who does What
• Assists in signing the OEM System so the SQF (Supplier Quality Department) signs the PSW (Part Submission Warrant)
• Ensures compliance of technical standards by the supplier based on the Development team
• Defines and ensures the proper representative level of the prototypes and the IOD (definitive off-tool part) with respect to the project milestone
• The project PFE & serial life mass production share out the carry-back & carry-over developments
• Monitoring the validation operations:
• Defines the generic validation plan for the project
• Monitors the progress of the validation plan in OEM System
• Reports about regulatory requirement integration level
• Ensures, with Quality cells of his metier, the Safety Experts and Validation Synthesis Leader:
• The identification of safety risks in his scope
• The creation of risk clearance associated plan by Development team
• The production and validation of design file by the Development team
• Manages the risk clearance plan with the Validation Synthesis Leader/Fit & Finish
• Monitoring the industrialisation operations:
• Ensures the start-up responsibility (link with Startup Function Group, AVES (Alliance Vehicle Evaluation System) convergence) and to make it compliant with his scope
• During serial life mass production: Monitors in detail the application of modifications with the Product Industrialisation Leaders/PE with respect to the programming the chain of modification after the validation done by Leader
• Knowledge-building and standardisation Assists in escalating the feedbacks towards the upstream & metier team of the metier department.

Essential

• Extensive experience of project management
• 6+ years of experience with a technical background in particular commodity in Interior / exterior trims parts / Body / Seats / Platform components development
• Successful history of delivery within the automotive sector.
• Engineering knowledge of defined component(s) / system(s) design, function, performance, production & manufacturing requirements.
• Excellent communications skills, demonstrated ability to communicate at all levels,
• PC Literacy: Aware about Catia V6, Microsoft Project, Power Point, Excel, Word etc Experience in OEM to lead commodity will be an added advantage.