VC 12701 Application Engineer, Application Team, BU DS

Strategy:

Realize acquisition of target projects in cooperation with Sales including technical presentations at customers

Monitor and assure profitability of respective projects over lifecycle through change management

Customer Focus:

establish as key contact for customers Engineering team and maintain close relationship

Build up and develop relationship to relevant technical functions at the customer and support customer engineering to ensure customer satisfaction and to enable long-term sustainable growth

Project Management:

Manage global projects with high complexity and impact to the company according Vibracoustic procedure (APQP/VC ProMap).

Manage RFQ fully independent including all internal and external activities

Take full responsibility for the project results in terms of quality, cost and timing in all phases of the project from RFQ to EOP

Ensure effective communication within the project team - Execute regular project reviews (internal/external) and report on project status

Professional interaction with Top Management to provide management summary of project status

Phase 1:

Lead RFQ phase and support product and process development - Drive RFQ to success

Solve development-related customer concerns (on time, quality, cost)

Translation of customer Spec into internal spec (SOR and DVP)

Align specification with internal departments

Align product concept and production/measurement process/ with customer

Assure successful Feasibility Study of the project

Prepare Baseline of the project after nomination and perform Kickoff.

Support review of contracts and involve relevant departments

Phase 2:

Manage DVP and align internal needs and translate customer spec

Define measurement concept

Support translation of spec to component level

Drive internal proto-design freeze

Get proto design freeze confirmation from customer

Accountability for Prototype production and delivery

Phase 3:

Review DVP results and drive necessary changes to meet the requirements

Get customer design release

Support know how transfer from proto to series (internal and external suppliers)

Phase 4:

Drive GTV (global testing validation)

Execute PVP test, collect and check the reports and communicate to customer

Get customer sign off

Phase 5:

Ensure project launchin serial production on budget

Phase 6:

Support plant for specific production topics (scrap issue, ECR )

Analytical thinking

Strong communication and presentation skills across cultures