Specialist: Technology Steering

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft; Akasia; On-site; ZAR 30 000 - 50 000; Full time

Job summary

An international automotive manufacturer is seeking a skilled professional to oversee production programs in Gauteng, South Africa. The role involves managing budgets and headcount requirements, implementing efficiency improvement measures, and directing various strategic projects within the assembly process. Candidates should possess a degree in Engineering or Business Economics along with 4-5 years of relevant experience in engineering and project management. Strong knowledge of motor vehicle technologies and quality assurance techniques is a must.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years knowledge of motor vehicles and related technologies.
• Experience in project management and engineering systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure fulfillment of the production program.
• Steer budget and headcount requirements.
• Implement improvement measures for efficiency.
• Direct special projects to optimize assembly processes.

Skills

Knowledge of motor vehicles

Mechanical/electrical/electronic technologies

Quality techniques and tools

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Degree in Engineering or Business Economics

4-5 years experience in Engineering/Business Planning

4-5 years experience in Management/Production Systems

Job description

Tasks:

• Secures the short, medium and long-term fulfilment of the production program, coordinates the necessary working-time models and flex modules with all relevant partners while assessing the appropriate business processes for appropriate working-time measures.
• Steers and monitors budget, headcount and annual investment requirements.
• Ensures the short, middle and long-term fulfilment of the production program; coordinates the necessary work-time models with all relevant partners, and evaluates the necessary working time instruments during for the relevant business processes.
• Coordinate the necessary working time models and flex modules with all relevant interface partners,
• Develops various operational concepts as a contribution of the plant in the planning process and checks vice-versa the feasibility of the planned projects in the plant. Shares the implementation experience from the plant back into the planning process.
• Ensures the function industrial engineering.
• Implements improvement measures and change projects for the serial production in the areas of efficiency.
• Steers ergonomics assessments and technical availability of the technology.
• Ensures the method competencies in the area of VPS.

Main Duties:

• Initiates, decides, controls and enforces all Headcount/Costs requirements and budgets for Direct Labour and Manufacturing Overheads.
• Set up monitor and manage Departmental Budgets both operationally and Project related.
• Set up personal developmental plans for Department team members.
• Ensure compliance of the team to the various business processes and IMS system requirements.
• Establishes Long Term Budgets (LUP, LIP).
• Establish Strategic targets regarding Loading, Costs and Productivity.
• Oversight of Line Balancing and Manpower planning.
• Establish Standard Time Analysis for all TVG’s.
• Establish Ergonomic Analysis for all TVG’s.
• Establish objectives, projects and plans to improve cost and labor productivity.
• Enforces all cost and labour productivity targets.
• Maintain Time Admin function for all Direct Hourly Labour.
• Maintain General Admin/Stationery function.
• Is on a day-by-day basis interactive in the Assembly Plant and neighboring departments to support primary targets (i.e. On time Delivery, Volume and budget, Quality).
• Control supply performance of internal and external suppliers of Assembly shop.
• Break down of the T-targets (linked to On Time Delivery, KOVP, volume targets, Budget and headcount) to the T-4, T-4x and T-4xx targets within the yearly target commitment process.
• Initiates, plans, direct and controls special projects to improve, control and monitor production related to: On time Delivery, throughput Time, Rework activities, and Production volume losses.
• Directs and follows up on introduction of projects and systems, and ensures methods to maintain quality standards of reporting and management information systems.
• As part of his COC’s co-working has influence over the design of global company standards and best practice solutions in areas of productivity, Analysis Tools, and Ergonomics and low cost intelligent automation.
• Introduction of New systems in accordance with international norms with regards to Productivity control and visualization.
• Makes internal as well as external agreements about efficiency with process partners and projects across, Logistics, Painted Body, Finance, Purchasing and Quality.
• Initiates and manages strategic projects in order to optimize the work organization and methodic and the assembly process for the assembly technology.
• New Product Launches/Project Involving Line Balancing and Productivity and Headcount requirements.
• Resource Evaluation and Allocation under changing business requirements through local and international influences.
• Maintain and Improve standard of production facilities and environment.
• Ensure development of the role of Coach within the Assembly environment.
• Develop and Introduce low cost intelligent automation (LCIA) within the Assembly Environment and key support function in line with international trends within the group.
• Key support wrt FK Prop, and complete Direct headcount planning with the groups central planning functions (TP and TI) for introductions of new model launches.
• Implements and maintains SHEQ (ISO TS 16949, ISO 14000, 45001 and ISO 18000) requirements.

Description of Auxiliary Activities:

Supplementary tasks/projects as allocated from time to time by Section Manager:

• To support Company and Departmental objectives.
• To support internal and external team relationships.
• Checks that safety standards are met.
• Coach, coordinate and supervise.
• Support to HRC and Operational teams in plant ill health process.
• Plans, investigates and optimizes the introduction of new production methods.
• Benchmarks Flexibility targets, e.g. with Local and International Automotive Plants.
• Benchmarks LCIA solutions with International Automotive plants.
• Motivate Interfacing departments to support T4 improvement initiatives.
• Bring about transparency within T4 on Budget statuses.
• Transparency to Operational environment on of Costs associated to in plant Damages.
• Steering of other cores with respect to associated damages which impact assembly processes and motivate solution thereof to maintain higher levels of quality.
• Oversight of the DS&R process in plant.

Impact on innovations and changes:

• Actively participate, steer and mentor the Innovation and Digitalization CoC locally and Internationally within the BMW Group.

Education:

• Degree in Engineering / Business Economics or equivalent.
• 4-5 years experience in Engineering, Business Planning and Project management.
• 4-5 years experience in Management/Production Information systems.

Additional skills: special skills / technical ability etc:

• 4-5 years knowledge of motor vehicles, mechanical/electrical/electronic state of the art technologies.
• 4-5 years knowledge in state of the art quality techniques and –tools.
• 4-5 years knowledge of engineering means and methods, artisan skills, communication, presentation and negotiation skills.