BU ENGINEERING & DEVELOPMENT PROJECT LEADER

OPmobility; Puebla de Zaragoza; Presencial; MXN 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

OPmobility in Puebla, Mexico, is seeking an engineer to lead product design and industrialization for automotive solutions. The role involves working across the extended team, ensuring GD&T compliance, and delivering robust manufacturing tooling and processes.

You will manage specifications, risk analyses, and validation activities, while driving project planning, budget control, and launch readiness with a strong emphasis on leadership and clear communication.

Formación

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering.
• English proficiency.
• Experience in design and/or development of plastic parts for automotive industry.
• Strong project management skills.
• Leadership with the ability to synthesize, organize and communicate clearly.

Responsabilidades

• Designs and validates product concepts and industrialization ensuring compliance with QCT requirements.
• Leads cross-functional extended teams and manages communication with stakeholders.
• Documents and tracks design and manufacturing requirements (DFMEA, Process specs, tooling).
• Manages project planning, budget, and milestones; participates in launch readiness.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Team coordination

Educación

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering

Descripción del empleo

Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution!

OPmobility is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies. With a €11.4 billion economic revenue in 2023, a global network of 152 plants and 40 R&D centers, OPmobility relies on its 40,300 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.

Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.

Main Missions

• Ensures the product design and product industrialization including associated tools (moulds, checking fixtures, validation equipment, etc.) within the QCT requirements (non-event launches, robust manufacturing)
• Ensures cross functional management of the extended team
• Ensures lessons learned

Responsibilities

Product design & validation:

• Works according to HSE requirements
• Can be involved in upstream phases of the project (expertise phase, acquisition phase)
• Analyses Customer Needs and Draw-up OP Specifications
• Defines the concepts of the product design to meet customers specifications and GD&T and ensure that the OP standard conception rules are respected
• Ensures that the design for manufacturing (assembly, paint, plant & packaging) are fulfilled
• Is the main technical contact with the customer during the design & tuning phases
• Is responsible for providing functional specifications for baby parts
• Manages and perform risk analysis (DFMEA + Design reviews)
• Manages Specifications, manufacturing and validation of the means (injection tools, checking fixtures, test jigs, End Of Arm Tooling)
• Manages Product validation (functional, geometry and cosmetic quality)
• Manages Product tuning (mold tuning, checking fixture tuning)

Project Management

• Defines initial Statement of Work of product engineering perimeter including extended team, regarding project perimeter, development budget (hours, hourly rate, travel cost) and Optimap Work Packages
• Defines and set up the engineering project planning
• Manages the engineering project reviews, consolidates actions and provides reporting and action plans
• Participates to QUAD (product & process feasibility milestones) reviews
• Tracks perimeter changes and reports to the PM
• Proposes adjustments and modifications linked to perimeter evolution during project life time
• Participates in Launch Readiness process

Budget Management

• Ensures product PRU commitment for the design relevant criteria
• Determines the project provisional budget (hours and cost)
• Allocates the budget to his extended team & guarantees resource availability with the manager
• Determines internal and external perimeter regarding SOW,
• Tracks perimeter changes due to customer or internal ones and reports to the PM. Proposes adjustments and modifications linked to perimeter evolution during project life time,
• Insures the follow up of project budget and releases warnings to PM and métiers managers in case of gaps.
• Contributes to investment optimization through part design

Desired Profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering
• English
• Design and/or development of plastic parts for automotive industry
• Project management skills
• Leadership, able to make clear synthesis, organized, rigorous, good communication

As a responsible company, OPmobility pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.