NPI Launch & Change Management Lead

HELLA Automotive Mexico S.A. de C.V.; Irapuato; Presencial; MXN 700.000 - 950.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

FORVIA HELLA is seeking a Launch and Change Management Team Leader in Irapuato, Mexico to guide the team through New Product Introduction (NPI) and engineering changes, ensuring on-time launches and cost improvements across the product life cycle.

You will align cross-functional stakeholders, apply HELLA standards, and lead a skilled team including ECM, APQP/PEP, and manufacturing specialists, while communicating with Plant and Regional management.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• 5–6 years of automotive manufacturing experience.
• Experience leading New Product Introduction (NPI) and New Product Development (NPD) launches.
• Strong background in Project Management and Change Management.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and cost improvement initiatives.
• Experience managing Quality, Cost, and Delivery (QCD) KPIs.
• Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with Engineering Change Management (ECM), APQP/PEP methodologies, and industrialization processes.
• Advanced English proficiency for communication in a global environment.
• Previous experience in a Tier 1 automotive manufacturing company is highly preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Proposing and following up targets in terms of quality, costs and timing with Project Management.
• Monitoring launch and change performance, identifying gaps and defining actions and countermeasures to correct / prevent deviations from target KPIs.
• Assuring effective integration and communication within Operations Project Teams, including resolution of conflicts with functional departments.
• Knowing and proactively advancing HELLA standards for processes, methods and tools in the field of Launch and Change Management, incl. relevant cross-functional Operations and Project Management standards.
• Ensuring that project tasks and work packages within the Operations Project Teams are defined, planned, coordinated and monitored by using predefined HELLA standards.
• Assuring that claim potentials resulting from engineering changes are identified and a valid status on engineering changes with regards to their effects on project targets is maintained.
• Understanding and knowing the product specifications and manufacturing process to the extent that they build a basis for profound decisions.
• Assuring that Design for Manufacturing in respect to state-of-the-art manufacturing technology is achieved, yielding optimum cost, while complying with quality and productivity requirements.
• Ensuring that all tasks and steps of the PEP are executed correctly with respect to quality, cost and timing.
• Ensuring that creation, updating and management of production-related documentation and master data is executed during the complete product life cycle according to standards and guidelines.
• Involvement in internal and external project related audits.
• Assure that projects within the plant follow corporate HELLA processes and standards.

Conocimientos

NPI/NPD leadership

PM & Change Mgmt

Manufacturing processes

QCD KPIs

Cross-functional leadership

ECM, APQP/PEP

English proficiency

Tier 1 experience

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Descripción del empleo

FORVIA HELLA is seeking a Launch and Change Management Team Leader in Irapuato, Mexico to guide the team through New Product Introduction (NPI) and engineering changes, ensuring on-time launches and cost improvements across the product life cycle.

You will align cross-functional stakeholders, apply HELLA standards, and lead a skilled team including ECM, APQP/PEP, and manufacturing specialists, while communicating with Plant and Regional management.