Program Manufacturing Leader

Forvia Faurecia (Pluak Daeng, Rayong, Thailand)

Rayong, Thailand

Faurecia is a global automotive supplier with a mission to develop safe, sustainable, advanced, and customized mobility technologies. The company has four business groups, including seating, interiors, clean mobility, and electronics. Faurecia also offers solutions that align with its convictions and values to meet future generation challenges. It is part of the FORVIA group, which has over 300 industrial sites and 63 R&D centers across 40+ countries. FORVIA is focused on becoming the preferred innovation and integration partner for OEMS worldwide and committed to making mobility transformation happen.

About this position

The Program Manufacturing Leader is responsible for overseeing the manufacturing processes and tooling for new products, ensuring compliance with specifications and standards, and leading the manufacturing team to achieve program objectives.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with Process engineer and EOL/Equipment Engineer to review and validate the manufacturing processes and tooling for new products.
• Manages process definition and production equipment definition and launch, in accordance with Customer and internal specifications, legal requirements and Faurecia standards / best practices,
• Ensures robustness of process FMEA,
• Coordinates the Manufacturing Team, Manage the CAR (System for capital expenditure approval) and respect equipment and tooling budget.
• Ensure Design for manufacturing through concurrent engineering activities with product engineers
• Lead PFMEA until equipment approval into the plant.
• Study, develop in detail, validate, release and set-up the complete Production System of the program in the plant: equipment and tool interfaces, layout, process flow charts, material and information flow diagram in accordance with the Business Group standards and program objectives.
• Coordinate work package tasks and ensure their accomplishment.
• Ensure that manufacturing milestones are passed successfully and on time.
• Support with suppliers for design, validation of tooling, machines.
• Assess and make improvements and changes balancing automation and manual processes.
• Ensure the launches of new program on the cost, capacity, and quality in the plant.
• Manage the feasibility assessments and quote industrialization to new program as acquisition phases.
• Organize the support to Design and Quality Engineering with root-cause analysis of manufacturing problems.
• Lead the support to Production and Quality Engineering on legacy processes and products.
• Drive the team and accomplish to the program and industrial objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor or above in engineering or related field
• +5 years working experience
• +3 years working experience at automotive electronics industry.
• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing engineering and assembly processes.
• Experience of managing the team related to industrialization at least 3 years.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision making and communication skills.
• Thorough knowledge of engineering techniques associated with project management.
• Must be capable of working with a wide variety of people from the shop.
• floor to senior managers, vendors, suppliers, and customers
• Demonstrated experience in launches of new production lines, automation as ME lead.
• Ability to create PM schedules, industrial plan with operational skills in production and quality matters.
• IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA. Experience driving Continuous Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Toyota Production Systems methods
• Experienced in global position is plus.
• English speaking is must