Lighting Project Sys Team Leader

Italdesign is a service company providing design, engineering and production for the transportation industry, through to final testing and type-approval and support into starting of production and the design of complete Business models.

Italdesign is based in Moncalieri, Torino, Italy and today has premises of more than 50.000 squared meters, a full-scale design and engineering campus and a cutting edge development and prototyping center.

It has about 1000 employees in Italy, Germany and Spain. Italdesign offers its services to all interested parties worldwide.

In 2017 Italdesign launched as additional business, a dedicated unit to design, develop and produce ultra-limited vehicles for all OEMs Worldwide : Italdesign Automobili Speciali.

Research and innovation has enabled a continuous growth, along with the ability to choose competent and motivated people, united by a real and concrete passion for excellence.

People are able to compete every day with the complexity and competitiveness of the market, able to work in integrated teams, to express their creativity in every field, to give the best of themselves in any conditions.

In 2020 Italdesign obtained the Top Employers Certification for the sixth consecutive year.

Italdesign Deutschland is expanding its engineering activities in automotive Exterior and Interior Lighting field and is looking to hire a LightingProject Sys Team Leader to join our Lighting Team.

Responsibilities

• Be the interface of the Project Team toward other departments of the customer that are involved in the different phases of Project / Product development : Purchasing, Commercial, Production, Logistic, Finance, Quality;
• Manage the budget of the project on the base of indication of Customer Sys Team Leader Department and being the reference toward the project teams and external suppliers involved in project development on the basis of the different project / validation phases;
• Give clear directions and instructions to all team members (including suppliers and different team components) in order to develop the project being compliant from the economical point of view;
• Report to stakeholders / managers the economical situation of the project;
• Verify initially and check regularly that duties, roles and functions of team members are aligned with project requests in term of economical efforts and timing compliance;
• Give clear and unbiased assessment of the movement and nature of projects in relations to production cost and expenses;
• Check with project team leaders and with the customer referencee the appropriate time to make advancement on projects and move on to further stages;
• Carryout constant evaluation and adjustment to ensure that project goals are reached in the proper time and at being on line respect to budget forecast;
• Maintain direct and open interaction with managers to make sure all resources needed for the project are available and also consider the negotiation of amendments to project plans to achieve proper results;
• Regularly interface with all the other IDG department involved in the projects;
• Regularly report to management as well as to customer;
• Regularly interact and manage suppliers involved in the project checking compliance in terms of timing, performances, cost and validation.

Key requirements

• 5+ years of experience;
• Strong background in Automotive Lighting;
• Experience with Automotive Electric&Electronics car architecture;
• Experience in requirements definition, derivation, construction and management;
• Experience about International Lighting Regulation;
• Experience in- program / project managing;
• Strong communication skills;
• Strong negotiation skills;
• High level of autonomy;
• Exhibit good leadership skills by carrying everyone along without bias;
• Be highly focused in order to stick to the objectives and goals of the company without giving in to undue distractions and challenges;
• Exhibit good motivational skills to bring out the best in team members;
• Good crises management skills to handle pressure from project challenges;
• Good temperament to deal with team members’ shortcomings.

Preferential requirements :

Knowledge of VW internal procedures / specification.

Education : Minimum requirement is Bachelor's in Engineering, Physics or related subjects. Master's degree is preferred.

Language Skills : Fluent knowledge of written and spoken German; fluent knowledge of written and spoken English. Knowledge of Italian would be appreciated.

Workplace : Gaimersheim (Ingolstadt) and availability to travel.

All genders welcome

Just for reasons of easier readability, only the grammatical male form is used in person names.

This always means people of every gender identity. We embrace diversity, actively encourage inclusion and create an environment that fosters each employee’s individuality in the interests of the company.