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See your work come to life on the road-helping make mobility safer, greener, and more connected. Ready to shape the future of mobility with us?\nYOUR ROLE\nAs the Lean Manufacturing Engineer you will be responsible for:\n- Production Launch Planning: Develop launch plans, milestones, and SOP readiness activities.\n- Process Development: Define and validate manufacturing processes, work instructions, and assembly sequences.\n- Equipment and Tooling Readiness: Ensure equipment, fixtures, and tooling are installed, commissioned, and capable.\n- Process Validation: Support prototype, pilot, and pre-production builds and verify cycle times.\n- Quality Assurance During Launch: Support PFMEA, Control Plans, defect reduction, and corrective actions.\n- Capacity and Productivity Management: Confirm production rates, line balancing, and resource utilization.\n- Cross Functional Coordination: Work with Engineering, Quality, Production, Maintenance, Logistics, and Suppliers.\n- Risk Management: Identify launch risks, maintain action plans, and escalate critical issues.\n- Launch Issue Management: Lead tracking and closure of open issues affecting successful product launch.\n- Customer Focus: Ensure customer requirements are met and launch objectives support customer satisfaction.\nRESPONSABILITIES\nLead new product launch activities from planning through production stabilization.\n\nDevelop, validate, and continuously improve manufacturing processes, work instructions, and assembly methods.\n\nCoordinate equipment, tooling, quality, production, maintenance, logistics, and supplier readiness to ensure successful product launches.\n\nManage PFMEA, Control Plans, process documentation, and launch performance metrics.\n\nIdentify and mitigate launch risks, drive issue resolution, and ensure customer requirements are achieved.\n\nMonitor post-launch performance and support transition to normal production operations.\n\nHigh energy, results-oriented, 5+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, product launches, process development, and cross-functional project coordination within a high-volume manufacturing environment.\n\nREQUIRED SKILLS\nBachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field.\n\n5+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Launch Engineering, or Process Engineering.\n\nExperience with PFMEA, Control Plans, Process Flow Diagrams, and manufacturing documentation.\n\nStrong project management and problem-solving skills.\n\nExperience supporting new product launches and process validation activities.\n\nProficient in Microsoft Office applications.\n\nEnglish 80%\n\nNice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)\nExperience in automotive manufacturing environments.\n\nKnowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.\n\nAPQP and PPAP experience.\n\nFamiliarity with OEE, FPY, cycle time analysis, and capacity planning.\n\nExperience working with automated assembly equipment and production systems.\n\nGreen Belt or equivalent continuous improvement certification.\n\nWHY JOIN US?\nYou can grow at Aptiv. 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