Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader

We pioneer technology for mobility experience that matter to people.

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

The main missions of the role are:

Within your area of expertise, you develop, industrialize and optimize stamping tools processes to ensure performance, quality and competitiveness of production systems. The stamping specialist oversees stamping tools from concept definition to start of production at plant.

Purpose and Main Responsibilities

Process Development

• Analyze and validate product/process feasibility for stamped part and support product development team.
• Define tooling concepts for sheet metal forming to achieve tooling performance.
• Ensure feasibility assessment for stamping parts by using stamping simulation (AUTOFORM).
• Support acquisition team (design-to-cost)
• Validate tools concept of external stamping supplier

Industrialization

• Define tool specifications and launch/lead RFQs
• Manage tools suppliers from design phase up to final validation (worldwide) including all validation steps (strip layout, studies, construction, reception at supplier sites and Forvia plants, …).
• Define and ensure compliance with program targets (cost, quality, cycle time, …) and manage action plan to reach them with external and internal resources.

Production Launch

• Lead tools installation and commissioning in Forvia plant (Europe) until full process validation
• Train plant teams and support start of production
• Contribute to achieving run@rate targets

Continuous Improvement

• Optimize tools performance (cycle time, OEE, cost, …).
• Capitalize and deploy best practices

Your profile and competencies to succeed

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Engineering degree or equivalent experience
• Experience in stamping manufacturing and development (tool shop).
• Strong mechanical knowledge
• Experience with simulation tool (Autoform and CATIA)
• Able to learn on the fly and work in shopfloor environments.
• Able to communicate effectively in English in a multicultural environment.
• Ready to travel (worldwide) as required by projects (approximately 20% to 30% of the time).

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.