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Customer Engineering Product Director
Division:  FCM DIV ENGINEERING
Contract Type: 
Job Location:  AUBURN HILLS HQ R&D
Job Description: 

Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader

We pioneer technology for mobility experience that matter to people.

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

Our Clean Mobility Division is looking for a Customer Product Engineer Director based in Auburn Hills - MI. 
The Customer Product Engineer Director is responsible for driving and ensuring that technical and design solution meets or exceeds the customer and FCM objectives/targets.  Maintains smooth relationships with customers, ensuring projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with FCM policies and objectives.  Responsible for all Customer Relationships and QCD of all programs.

  • Manage Engineering relationship with all customers, ensure strong customer intimacy by being the high-level customer engineering contact with key individual(s) at the Customer
  • Engineering Voice of Customer, ensure customer voice within FCM for product engineering
  • Ensure all customer milestones are achieved on time and at customer expectations
  • Responsible for all internal milestones on time and that align with QCD expectations
  • Lead the customer-specific product strategy:
    •    Align with the overall customer strategy
  • Ensure FCM quality design standards are aligned with customer quality standards
  • Responsible to communicate global customer best practices to FCM regions, support development and implementation of global customer product standards
  • Provide technical input to Division for:
    •    Lead program acquisitions
    •    Programs in development
    •    Changes in serial life
  • Manage and coach Chief Engineer Product in daily activities and leading programs
  • Support IP, Warranty, and VAVE activities

Your profile and competencies to succeed

The ideal candidate will have/be:

  • Strong leadership skills
  • Effective and accurate communication skills with all levels of management and co-workers in spoken and written language
  • High level of accuracy and precision to ensure high quality output
  • Strong organization skills with sensitivity to time constraints and resource ability
  • Ability to take action in solving problems with a realistic understanding of issues
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently
  • Safety, quality, production, and team oriented
  • Problem solving techniques
  • Global mindset able to manage individuals in different locations and cultures

Desirable qualifications/knowledge: 

  • MS Project
  • Concurrent Engineering
  • VA/VE
  • Financial/Commercial
  • Manufacturing Processes
  • Customer Processes (i.e. FPDS, WERS, WWP, etc.)
  • Engine Management Strategy
  • Emissions
  • Applied engineering

What we can do for you

  • At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.  
  • We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development. 
  • We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count. 
  • We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility.  Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world) 
  • We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans. 
  • Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy. 

Why join us

FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility. We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.

With a history stretching back more than a century, we are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries. You'll find our technology in around 1 out of 2 vehicles produced anywhere in the world.

In June 2022, we became the 1st global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard. We have committed to reach CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.

As technological innovation and the need for sustainability transform the automotive industry, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions that will enhance the lives of road-users everywhere.
 
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