Opex And Ie Specialist I (Guadalajara)

IFORVIA HELLA is a listed, international automotive supplier, part of the FORVIA Group. We build the world’s seventh largest supplier of automotive technologies and employ 157,000 people worldwide. FORVIA HELLA specializes in high‑performance lighting technology and automotive electronics, offering a broad portfolio of services and products for the spare‑parts and workshop business and for manufacturers of special vehicles.

Job Objective

Improvement of productivity and economic efficiency in the production area through industrial engineering methods, ergonomic considerations, material flow, value‑adding aspects, and support of compensation types and work‑time models in compliance with operational and pay‑scale agreements. Providing support during planning and steering of the Operational Excellence Road Map, managing small OE projects at individual locations. Supporting the establishment of improvement suggestions to build a HELLA production system, implementing measures for efficiency improvement in assembly, prefabrication, logistics, and administration. Maintaining an up‑to‑date and reliable data basis for calculation, capacity planning and costing, and for continuous improvement by acquiring data on processing times, waiting times, setup times and associated indices.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Implementing Operational Excellence tools, ensuring coherence and uniformity of introduced methods and tools in cooperation with the plant manager.
• Participating in drawing up and defining the improvement plan for the plant to be looked after.
• Inspecting the production areas to detect potentials for improvement in current workflow and organization structure, performing cause analysis and devising appropriate measures.
• Participating in preparing suggestions for improvement and acting as interface to CIP.
• Planning, supporting and handling small improvement projects with reference to procedures, logistic conceptions, processes and systems of work in collaboration with the shop‑floor areas.
• Helping in creating and implementing technical process standards and logistic procedures in cooperation with responsible entities, taking the production system (e.g. HelPS) into account.
• Participating in the corporate improvement process (e.g. Kaizen), guaranteeing implementation of suggestions for improvement and initiating required activities with responsible entities.
• Participating in developing and introducing methods to extend Operational Excellence in overhead and TtM processes (e.g. lessons learned).
• Carrying out internal action‑success control by harmonizing business‑administration data in collaboration with respective organizational units.
• Preparing, presiding over and performing workshops as well as training and qualifying employees.
• Giving production‑related advice and support for new projects from Development.
• Cooperating in designing work systems to improve productivity of production process flows under ergonomic aspects.
• Triggering correction by the process/production scheduler or independently updating industrial‑engineering data and routing fields.
• Checking adherence to planned working method and calculated cycle times in the launch phase, updating and processing indices 'open rating data' and 'te change'.
• Involving in capacity planning of resources and relocating products, checking necessary capacities for significant changes in planning, acquiring necessary data for calculation, planning and wage payment using the MTM productivity management system and REFA methodology.
• Supporting production‑bonus implementation projects and providing problem solving when obstacles arise.
• Calculating baseline performances for different bonus areas, training and mentoring bonus groups, regularly tracking bonus results and providing detailed analysis in case of abnormalities, manually intervening based on given standards with the relevant manager.
• Accountable for ERP PP‑AV master data regarding work centers, routings (incl. component allocation) and production versions per AD‑***** and AD‑*****.
• Training ME key‑users, MEs and IEs regarding work centers, routings (incl. component allocation) and production processes.