Timing & Scheduling Specialist
Location
Böblingen | Germany
Job description
INEOS Automotive: We have one goal: Manufacture, launch and deliver uncompromising, best-in-class vehicles. It’s been an exciting Grenadier journey since our inception in 2017. We’ve flown past many milestones and, despite the global challenge of 2020, we’re on track to deliver our plan. At INEOS Automotive, we’re always looking for people who can bring new perspectives to our teams. People with entrepreneurial spirit, who enjoy taking on new challenges and are comfortable with handling risks and uncertainties. 2021 and 2022 are our years of execution and as a Timing & Scheduling Specialist will play a huge part in this. If you are looking to join a scale-up business that values your curiosity, drive, and expertise whilst taking on a career defining role, then INEOS Automotive welcomes your application.
Your Role: The Timing & Scheduling Specialist is primarily focused on elaborating and developing an automotive engineering development system from strategy to end-of-lifecycle incl. timing, scheduling and maturity tracking. Furthermore, relevant tools and processes have to be implemented and maintained.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Take over responsibility of creating and implementing engineering processes in close cooperation with all relevant programme members within the whole product development process
- Analyse and validate existing processes and optimise them to improve efficiency
- Responsibility for continuous improvement and implement best practice procedures in engineering process environment
- Evaluate, analyse, and provide solutions for deviations on time and schedule, along with implications, evaluations and reworking to schedule
- Keep engineering project team informed on changes in targets and/or restrictions regarding timing.
- Keep Programme Manager informed of all deviations and changes to project, providing analysis on outcomes and schedule
- Take the correct countermeasures in case of delay and in conjunction with key stakeholders
- Develop, monitor, and maintain target project records with the project management, site managers, suppliers, and other project participants
- Track project milestones and deliverables, on time process and gate reviews and provide detail reports as required
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks and devise contingency plans
- Design, create and revision of detailed time schedules across all project phases
- Attend meetings as directed by programme management, take and distribute meeting minutes to the necessary stakeholders
For the Timing & Scheduling Specialist we are looking for:
- 8-10 years’ experience gained at either a Tier 1 automotive supplier or automotive OEM, and will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the automotive design and launch process, from concept to industrialisation, in-order to managing the master and detailed schedules
- Completed engineering degree or equivalent technical vocational training
- Several years of professional experience in project management in the automotive industry
- Several years of professional experience in scheduling of projects in the automotive industry
- Safe handling of MS Project
- Good handling of presentation media and the MS Office package
- Good English spoken & written
- Independent and responsible way of working
- Must possess strong verbal and written communications skills and should be comfortable giving presentations
- There will be some travel involved in the role. The role will be based primarily in Germany (Böblingen) and therefore English and German language skills are beneficial.
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