Body Engineering Planning Specialist (10066)

The Volkswagen Group is one of the world's largest producers of passenger cars and Europe's largest automaker and is on the road to number one. Come join our team and you could be part of that ride. For our employees, Volkswagen stands for more than just efficient and sustainable products - it’s an expression of who they are and how they move through life. Become a part of the Volkswagen of America experience and work with people who are passionate, innovative, enthusiastic, and high performing team players. Everyone deserves a better car and everyone deserves a better company - it’s a Volkswagen thing.

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Summary

Identify requirements for maintenance and production resources to modify body weld systems to improve safety, quality, productivity, and cost

Responsibilities

• Responsible to gain consensus cross-functionally for process improvement opportunities. .
• Develop the production process to ensure processes meet safety standards, quality standards, cost targets, environmental and OSHA regulations
• Coordinate and/or lead projects within the Body Planning team and prioritize activities based upon business needs. 
• Create a continuous improvement environment to develop best-in-class production systems
• Coordinate production trials for model changes
• Coordinate team members and develop teamwork
• Coordinate activities with the maintenance team to minimize production delays due to equipment issues
• Develop systems to meet KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) and analyze data to monitor performance, plan improvements, and identify potential countermeasure activities
• Monitor safety, quality, cost, and productivity, and develop improvement activities for assigned areas of production
• Complete projects on schedule and within the annual administrative, operational, and capital budgets
• Provide direction and assistance to analyze production issues, propose countermeasures, and resolve issues
• Collaborate with other production departments, quality, production control, and engineering to provide best-in-class product quality
• Implement training plans to improve overall organizational capability of production department

Qualifications

Required

• 3+ years of job-related experience, Automotive background preferred
• 4-year Engineering degree from an accredited university
• Automotive body weld experience
• Lean manufacturing / visual systems
• Continuous improvement
• Project management
• Ergonomic evaluations
• Quality circles
• Engineering drafting and modeling software experience

 

Preferred

• Advanced degree preferred
• KVS/AVON/RPlan/LCS System Knowledge
• Implementation of engineering changes
• Maintenance system development / management
• Robotic controls/programming
• PLC programming
• MicroStation  and Catia design
• Ergonomic assist development
• Part delivery system development
• German language abilities

Scope and Magnitude

Position Grade: 7

This role description is a guideline and does not create contractual rights between the Company and any of its employees.  The Company does not enter into any type of employment contract, implied or written, with its employees regarding job security.

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