Leader of Material PI Group

Company Description

The Company

Tire solutions from the Tires group sector make mobility safer, smarter, and more sustainable. Its premium portfolio encompasses car, truck, bus, two-wheel, and specialty tires as well as smart solutions and services for fleets and tire retailers. Continental delivers top performance for more than 150 years and is one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers. In fiscal 2023, the Tires group sector generated sales of 14 billion euros. Continental's tire sector employs more than 56,000 people worldwide and has 20 production and 16 development sites.  Tire solutions from the Tires group sector make mobility safer, smarter, and more sustainable. Its premium portfolio encompasses car, truck, bus, two-wheel, and specialty tires as well as smart solutions and services for fleets and tire retailers. Continental delivers top performance for more than 150 years and is one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers. In fiscal 2023, the Tires group sector generated sales of 14 billion euros. Continental's tire sector employs more than 56,000 people worldwide and has 20 production and 16 development sites.

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Job Description

In this role, you will lead a team to industrialize and optimize compounds, raw materials, mixing processes and curing specifications in the plant under consideration of specific requirements from customers, R&D, local quality standards and factory targets. Ensure close working interface as business partner between plant and R&D. Provide technical support by triggering the necessary industrialization activities and business improvement measures.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Ensure the industrialization and optimization of compounds, materials and curing specification within the boundary conditions of the customers and R&D to fulfill plant processability and cost requirements.
• Write, modify or update work instructions and facilitate close cooperation to QM.
• Assess plant readiness based on future R&D requirements in terms of invest and capacity for compounds.
• Translates R&D requirements into tangible impacts on the plant ( in terms of invest, capacity).
• Ensure that the production can produce the raw material and compounds within the plant goals.
• Monitoring the compound properties and specification optimization for compound stability & improvement if necessary.
• Support production and QM trouble shooting activities.
• Decide about release or blocking of compounds related to the physicals defined by R&D and QM.
• Decision about the usage of process scrap and rework/work off.
• Ensure the availability of new compounds and materials for experimental tire building.
• Ensure that all the compounds and materials are within the required specification.
• Ensure the appropriate decision about release, recycling or other use of non conforming compounds, fabrics and cured tires.
• Ensure the follow-up of the introduced product during the RN phase.
• Ensure the RNs are closed within the timing given by R&D and within the 441 success criteria.
• Offer technical alternatives which are optimized for process capabilities, cost, minimized rework and comply with the established Release Notice Procedure and QMD Standards.
• Proposal for new product improvement measures (PIP) items for Material, Process and Technology.
• Realization of product improvement measures (PIP) for Material, Process and Technology including standardization and consolidation (complexity reduction).
• Ensure the availability of specification.
• Support the PI Manager in understanding new compounding technologies in order to provide operational support for new product lines and strategical growth plan of the company.
• Assess plant readiness based on future R&D requirements in terms of invest and capacity for compounds.
• Translates R&D requirements into tangible impacts on the plant ( in terms of invest, capacity, capability).
• Local Business Key User for System/Process/Tool CBS3 and GUTS material.
• Coordinate local requirements with Central Key User and the Competence Center. Support and coordinate problem solving for functional user questions.
• Collect technical user problems and address them to the support level; inform users about solved technical problems; summarize user change requests (user suggestions for improvements).
• Development of local end user documentation.
• Participate in Key User workshops, Business Acceptance tests and Key User Trainings. Integration into the world-wide Key User community in terms of continuous system improvement and knowledge / experience transfer.
• Support Know-how transfer to and training of the local end users in the standard processes and usage of System/Proce