R&D Engineer - System Engineering Commercial Product Industrialization & Modularity
Bridgestone
Rome, Italy
Job Purpose:
Within System Engineering organization, manage for all commercial product categories (TBR, AG, PCT):
- New products & TPA, Industrialization
- Support Design to Modularity realization in the shopfloor
- Promotion + Activation de-complexity opportunity in manufacturing.
Main Accountabilities:
According Lean process & following “Well Born Tire” concept to:
- Arrange & Follow qualification trials of new commercial product (TBR, PCT & AG) to be industrialized (Size Expansion & Master Size single loop)
- Arrange & Follow qualification trials of Transfer product from one plant to another in commercial category (TBR, PCT & AG)
- Promote & activate initiatives in favor of manufacturing de-complexity in EMEA plants
- Support on optimizing product Manufacturing cost (DMC & CC)
- Set & drive together with CTD a structured modularity approach in commercial (by design & “retrofit”)
- Support on driving Commercial Product industrialization to digitalization in a Maximize the adoption of Virtual tools to minimize the actual prototypes
Working relationships:
- Commercial Tire Development (CTD)
- Compound and Material development (MID)
- Production Plants (Bilbao, BSST, PSM, Brisa, Pune, Brits, LKL)
- Logistics (IPL – LSCM)
- Quality Assurance functions (QM & plant local QS)
- Manufacturing/Engineering division (MTDS & & plant local Engineering)
- Business Unit (CPM, SALES, RET Tech, RET TSG)
Technical skills
Specific:
- Tire basic/advanced technical Knowledge (Tire Features, Performances and Mechanics) (M).
- Indoor & Outdoor testing (NTH).
- CREO (M).
- Vulcan J (M).
General:
- Project management (M).
- Problem solving (M).
- Design of Experiment skill (M)
- Innovation attitude (NTH)
- Basic knowledge of:
- Statistics (M).
- 6sigma (NTH).
- FMEA (NTH).
- MS office (M).
Background
- University degree in mechanical engineering (M).
- Already acquired Familiarity on tire “environment” (NTH).
Language skills
- Fluent level of English (M).
Others
- Availability on travels (NTH).
- Openness to evaluate at proper time on Job rotation within and outside department (NTH).
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