HELLA Electronics Corporation

The North American manufacturing facility is located at 1101 Vincennes Ave in Flora, Illinois, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA. The organization established business in 1978, responding to the regions increasing significance in the automotive industry, and growing requirements for actively supporting market based activities and customer service.

Our product portfolio ranges from complex body electronics such as central control units and access systems to various electronics components, including sensors and accelerator pedals. We are also active in the rapidly growing energy management and driver assistance systems segments, where we offer a wide range of attractive innovations.

The Flora location is approximately 180,000 sq.ft. with 320 employees. The location supplies to all major OEM and Tier 1 customers and is dedicated to 100% OEM automotive production. The facility is driven by Surface Mount Technology for high volume, high mix and high complexity electronic modules. Most of the final product assembly lines are fully automated.

HEC is part of a global network of electronic production facilities and design centers. There are 14 locations globally with two additional production locations in Mexico and one in Brazil. Daily communication at the global level is the norm and provides a very enriching work environment. The overall company culture is continuous improvement for all locations.

White collar workers with more than 5 years of service represent 64% of the professional population at the facility. We are seeking professional individuals that are looking for a long term career in a fast-paced, production-focused environment.

Job Objective

Coordinating and actively managing one or more several complex Operations projects as the core team member to ensure an excellent launch of new products.

Successfully leading cross functional, interdisciplinary teams (e.g. from Logistics, Manufacturing Engineering, Testing, Technical Services, Quality and other project related departments) to ensure the correct application and execution of the PEP and be accountable for the assigned projects.

Ensure the full transparency within assigned projects, proactively reporting to different management levels (e.g. Operations Manager, Plant Manager, Project Manager), escalation regarding HELLA instructions if necessary.

Conduct fully correct hand over of products in the series production.

Duties and Responsibilities
Project Management
1. Working within the project teams according to the Hella PEP regulations as the Operations core team member and leading Operations project teams
2. Agreeing and following up targets with the Project manager in terms of quality, costs and timing in agreement with the superior and taking existing processes and methods into consideration. Providing timely project decisions and identifying critical paths in order to establish prioritized actions
3. Ensuring that the project targets are being achieved or overachieved simultaneously or with the priority to selected dimension(s). Be able to focus on the most relevant deliverables (e.g. Functional Safety requirements)
4. Knowing the Hella-standards, processes, methods and tools in the field of project management, and being able to apply them accordingly through the project lifetime
5. Defining, planning, coordinating and monitoring project maturity, internal tasks / work packages within the production team by using predefined methods and tools and HELLA standards
6. Actively identifying claims potential resulting from engineering changes. Maintaining a valid status on engineering changes (e.g. change requests) with regards to their effects on the project targets
7. Understanding and knowing the product specifications and manufacturing process to the extent that they build a basis for profound decisions for the project manager to manage his project. Reflecting the effects of the decisions on the other departments (e.g. Operations, Purchasing) within Hella. Evaluation of economic and production engineering consequences regarding necessary changes
8. Defining members of the extended production team with the help of the functional departments and moderating the production team incl. conflict resolution with functional departments
9. Coordinating the bidding process and supporting and realization of make or buy decisions
10. Monitoring the implementation of all defined SipCo actions (manufacturing costs: iPC vs. ACT) 11. Ensuring agreed global standards get accomplished 12. Active participation at the selection of production processes with development team and process experts as well as steering and executing in the development of production methods taking the market development for production systems into account and check new systems for their suitability and applicability as set by Hella specific constrains and legal requirements 13. Guide and advice the development responsible concerning production related options / and improvements at new developments and modifications of products with regard to optimum cost and quality 14. Steering and executing in the selection of appropriate production processes with the process experts and development team and proactively suggest the best processes for the product 15. Ensure that the planning of production flows, production layouts and production equipment under consideration of needed / available capacities is done by the manufacturing engineer under consideration of cost, quality and due dates. Ensure that the specification requirements are drawn up 16. Ensure the procurement of production equipment (evaluation of quotations, technical discussion with potential suppliers, preparation of supplier decision and ordering, control progress during construction phase) 17. Ensure that the P-FMEA is created and that the assessment of the risks is done properly, and introduction of sustainable improvements is secured 18. Ensure that the pre-acceptance, set-up of production equipment and final acceptance of production equipment is done according to the defined requirements 19. Preparing Run @Rate, obtaining assessment and all needed documentation for process approval. Responsibility for the organization / qualification of the start of production 20. Involvement in internal and external project related audits 21. Preparing, updating and managing production and quality related documentation according to the guidelines as well as creating and updating the production master data, ensuring training for relevant employees

Leadership
1. Functional lead of the employees in the competence responsibility
2. Guiding, instructing and supporting employees in function-related tasks
Carrying out other tasks related to this position (including examining as well as complying with industrial safety and environmental protection measures pertaining to the scope of duties)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $2.00 - $4.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

COVID-19 considerations:
Extra cleaning and sanitizing.

Experience:

• Automotive Manufacturing: 1 year (Preferred)
• Electronics: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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