JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Summary
Drive seamless product launches by overseeing process, tooling, and requirement changes while championing continuous improvement to enhance quality, productivity, and compliance.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Launch Strategy & Execution
- Design and execute the Launch Glidepath, ensuring all milestones (e.g., timelines, deliverables) are achieved for successful product introduction.
- Proactively monitor glidepath progress, escalating risks to leadership and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Lead cross-functional Site Development Team (SDT) design and process reviews to align component quality and manufacturability with project goals.
Quality Assurance & Compliance
- Integrate robust process controls (e.g., poke-yoke, FMEA, Control Plans) to safeguard critical product dimensions (SC/CC) during assembly/manufacturing.
- Resolve Launch Quality Rejects and customer concerns with urgency, ensuring root-cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.
- Enforce strict protocols to halt non-conforming product delivery until deficiencies are resolved.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Production, Engineering, and Quality teams to align launch activities with cost, quality, and efficiency targets.
- Mobilize cross-disciplinary teams to address process gaps, prevent non-conformities, and implement preventive measures.
Training & Documentation
- Develop and track comprehensive training plans to equip employees with skills for new products/processes.
- Maintain detailed records of launch issues, resolutions, and process improvements for accountability and audits.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify and document systemic product/process/quality issues, driving solutions to closure.
- Leverage data and stakeholder feedback to refine workflows and eliminate waste.
Environmental, Health & Safety:
- Support the protection of the environment, personal safety, prevention of pollution and the continual improvement of the Environmental Management System.
- Providing leadership to Launch team in preventing accident and ensure compliance with OSHA and EPA/TCEQ standards. This includes: continuously monitor the workplace for hazardous environmental, health, and safety conditions.
- Ensure environmental, health and safety hazards are corrected, eliminated or guarded as related to Launch team
- Within scope of responsibilities assessing engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE on an on-going basis
- Assisting in the investigation of accidents.
- Having the authority to: Stop and prevent unsafe actions; stop the use of unsafe equipment and tools, stop work and/or have employees leave a work area
- Ability to participate in investigation of near misses and other environmental/safety-related incidents that have occurred
- Ensure that all department related incident reports are completed in a timely and accurate manner
Qualification Requirements:
Software Proficiency
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); MS Project proficiency preferred.
- Ability to create visual aids (e.g., charts, graphs, dashboards) to simplify complex data and communicate insights effectively.
Data Analysis & Problem-Solving
- Solve complex mathematical problems using basic and advanced analytical methods.
- Perform data optimization and analysis to address challenges in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
- Translate datasets into visual charts/diagrams tailored to project needs.
Documentation & Communication
- Interpret technical documents, including blueprints, safety protocols, and procedure manuals.
- Prepare clear, concise reports, correspondence, and routine documentation.
Operational Excellence
- Leverage data-driven insights to identify trends, optimize processes, and support decision-making.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment between technical analysis and operational goals.
Education and Experience:
- BSME, BSIE or Equivalent; 5 to 10 years manufacturing experience; 5 to 10 years product design experience and customer management.
PRIMARY LOCATION
Avanzar San Antonio Facility
Top Skills
What We Do
Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 77,000 employees in 32 countries, Adient operates 202 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into more than 19 million vehicles every year.
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