GTS Engineer/Leather (m/f), Hagenbach

"Technical Perfection and automotive passion" is what defines Faurecia. We design, engineer and provide the best in technology, systems and services for automobile makers in every major market on all five continents. If you share our ambition for technical perfection and our passion for all things automotive, Faurecia has a career for you.

"Faurecia, a driving force…for your professional growth."

Missions

The GTS Engineer is responsible to be the technical reference for his/her Technology domain, based upon the 4 GTS missions.

The Technology domain includes:

• Leather, artificial leather (PVC/PU), or other market materials for interior car upholstery
• Textiles and fabrics (Knitted or woven) with scrim backing and threads.
• Polyurethane foams and spacer fabrics.(layers and pads)
• Glues ( Polyurethane reactive hot melt glues and Water base)
• Cutting, sewing and covering processes..
  
• Leather lamination and sub processes linked with leather ( splitting, skiving, embossing,…)
• Knowledge of product feasibility for manual covering

Responsibilities:

• Understand Product & Process market in collaboration with benchmarking, marketing etc.
• Understanding of premium wrapping technologies. (Press covering, membrane covering, manual wrapping with seam location . . .)
• Evaluate and analyze Technology solutions (Faurecia Technology portfolio, OEMs & competitors).
• Identify Best practices & contribute to identify market needs.( customer, competitors and tool makers or raw material suppliers).
• Be aware of the key patents for the Technology (Faurecia Technology portfolio, OEM & competitors).
• Identify and analyze key gaps between the Technology domain portfolio and the market needs (from marketing department). Contribute to reduce these gaps through the actions plans of the Technology roadmap (innovation projects and technology improvement projects).
• Contribute to identify and develop Technology Breakthrough.
• Validate the robustness of the innovations (product & process performance)
• Contribute to the Technology review.
• Create standards for FIS Technology portfolio and according to Technology roadmap in collaboration with others departments .
• Improve standards based on feedback from plant & project (lessons learned, compliance to standards, scraps, TRS, tuning cost, alerts…).
• Support the organization in the promotion and application of the Faurecia standards towards the OEMs.
• Provide the reference of the standards that development teams must apply to ensure products/process robustness.
• Assess standards compliance during project life & agree on action plan if deviation.
• Attend the PPCS ( trough the design reviews) tool to evaluate product & process technical maturity, and agree the action plan with the program team
• Collaborate with IPEX for the TAF ( Technical assessment file) audit planning and agree on action plan for “processing Technology GTS engineer”.
• Participate to gap analysis to Generic Concepts with technical leader and manufacturing for “product GTS engineer”.
• Contribute to identify new technical training needs, and accordingly create and update training courses with the referent trainer(s)
• Train the people through Technology Academy courses (for the selected GTS)
• Develop internal and external Technology networks through : participation to technical exhibitions & forums, development of the relationships with OEM, supplier counterparts and FIS Experts & Specialists.

Profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience on cut & sew & covering automotive market on engineering area.
• Advance know-how on Leather and artificial leather materials used to cover interior parts as door panels, Instrument panels and Center consoles with different technologies.
• 2 or more years of experience with tools and machines as well as familiar with technical specification, it will be a plus.
• Understanding of the systems where his/her technology domain is involved.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Technological curiosity.
• Scientific approach (6 sigma, etc).
• Design to cost approach.
• Standard PC software knowledge (MS Office, etc.) and comfortable with digital tools.
• Intercultural and open mindset, overseas experience is a plus.
• Flexibility for frequent business travel.
• Minimum bi-lingual (English required).
• Network connection in automotive industry (suppliers, tier 1, tier 2, OEM,…) also valuable