Manager - Tires

Summary

Join Continental, a leading technology company, and contribute to sustainable and connected mobility. As a Lean Manufacturing expert, you will manage a system for continuous problem resolution and improvement. You will support other departments in understanding and applying Lean principles, design process improvements, and train plant employees in Lean management. You will develop a Continuous Improvement roadmap, track KPIs, and coordinate improvement activities. This role requires a university degree in engineering, 5+ years of experience in industrial engineering/Lean manufacturing, and project management experience. Continental offers competitive salaries, benefits, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• University degree, engineering
• 5 years experience in Industrial engineering domain / Lean manufacturing
• Experience in project management, leading projects and / or team coordinator
• Communication skills
• Lean methods and principles (eg. Kaizen, PDCA, Ischichawa, 5S, TPM, SMED, Standard work, VSM)
• Lessons Learned
• SPS Methodologies and Tools (eg. A3)
• English language - minimum B2

Responsibilities

• Manages an organized system in order to enable the continuous approach and resolution of problems arising during current activities, to allow continuous improvement of the obtained results
• Supports the efforts from other areas and Departments in understanding and applying Lean Manufacturing principles by transmitting information, ensuring coaching actions to improvement team members, applying control methods of processes or tools specific to Lean systems - assistance for members of improvement teams during utilization of tools and specific methods of analyzing for Lean Manufacturing: PDCA, Kaizen, diagrams and flow maps, Pareto diagrams, Ishikawa, etc
• Designs methods for process improvements, plans and applies improvements process, identifies the internal aspects of the overall approach to process performance, applies solutions to accomplish visual management of processes
• Involves, teaches and trains the plant employees to respect Lean management culture, having a direct "hands on" approach, for example Yellow Belt classes or similar
• Develops Continuous Improvement road map for the plant and tracks KPIs
• Coordinates and ensures continuous improvement activities

Benefits

• 13th salary
• Performance bonus
• Christmas & Easter bonus
• Seniority bonus
• Flexible working time
• Home office
• Competitive salaries & benefits
• Health & wellness (Life Assurance, Private Health and Dental Insurance, Sport activities, Canteen, 24/7 Helpline with Psychologists etc.)
• Different discounts (tires, glasses, medical, shopping, etc.)
• Relocation bonus for non-Timisoara Residents
• Professional development opportunities (in Technical and Leadership Areas)
• International Work Environment & Traveling Opportunities