JOB TITLE: Vehicle Integration Engineer Specialist
Qualifications (Skills & Experiences & Education)
Years of Relevant Experience:
3 years of experience in automotive industry
Education:
• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
Desired
• Master's Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
Skills:
• Proficient in German and English - verbal and written skills
• Analytical and conceptual thinking - using logic and reason, creative and strategic
• Excellent communication skills - interpersonal, presentation and written
• Computer savvy - skilled in the use of software (MS-Applications)
• Integration - linking people, processes or systems
• Influencing and negotiation skills
• Resource management
• Self-starting and self-motivation
• Ability to think in broader scope
• Work in cross functional teams
• Team management
• Time management
• Good administrative skills : ability to plan, develop a structure and priorities
• Evaluation of Technical quality
• Strong analytical skills (root cause analysis)
• Monitoring of project-specific product- and vehicle structures as well as testing of new configurations
• Trace of documentation failure
• Ability to lead a team of technicians
• Escalation of critical errors in the direction of IT-Wolfsburg
Specialized Skills:
Required
• (international) involvement of the project participants for operating the Vehicle Integration -activities
• escalation competence in vehicle project
• requesting all information for vehicle development concerning Vehicle Integration
• Engineering support at building of Production Reference Vehicle Integration and assuring further updates
• Permanent reporting of the Vehicle Integration, especially to R&D departments
• Interface to Development Departments, Vehicle Integration Department intern and the other Departments like Production, Quality, Product management, ...
• Knowledge about test drives
• Tracking of critical Customer complaints
• Permanent production checks in close collaboration with the Development Departments
• Special automotive knowledge
• Ability to train new local staff
• Escalation in the direction of Wolfsburg
Desired
• Experience in the co-operation with VW development department(s)
• Experience in the VW development process (PEP)
• Experience in project management
• Experience on test drives
Work Flexibility:
• Readiness for domestic and international business trips, for example to visit special test drives, suppliers/ VW location in the US, Germany, Mexico or the R&D-Center in Wolfsburg
• Readiness for professional training in Germany/Mexico (for a longer training period)
Role Summary:
• monitor the Department of Vehicle Integration
• making the project status transparent and provide it for committees and drives
• coordinating the validation of Vehicle Integration experimental vehicles
• generating job splits (with development partners: general and Vehicle Integration - demands, testing issues, complexity of analysis and approval)
• care for complying and validating project budget
• Decision of requests, needs of escalation and of prioritization required by the Vehicle Integration section
• synchronizing of information from the Vehicle Integration section with committees
• knowledge of top-appraisals and top-failures
• representing the vehicle project in committees (representing the project in Germany)
• representing the Type tutor on drives and in committees
giving the approval recommendation for the Vehicle Integration -parts
Role Responsibilities:
Vehicle Integration - responsibly for vehicle project (national and international) in Volkswagen - 100%
• making statements of vehicle status
• making relevant information concerning the project available for the Vehicle Integration -participants
• can provide statements concerning technique and project status
• harmonizing Vehicle Integration -project status
• Providing and sharing all relevant information with Type tutor
EOE (Veteran/Disability)