Help shape the future of mobility!

At Aptiv, we envision a future with zero road injuries or fatalities. To help us get there, active safety  plays a crucial role by preventing the accident altogether. 

Aptiv's Next-Gen ADAS platform is the foundation for advanced active safety, and sophisticated radars provide the sensor input that make that foundation even more robust.  

Your Role 

• Lead the industrialization of new radar and electronics products from business award through serial production (SOP).

• Act as the primary manufacturing interface between Product Design, Quality, Supply Chain, Purchasing, and Production Plants.

• Drive DFM (Design for Manufacturing) and DFA (Design for Assembly) reviews to ensure products can be built robustly and efficiently.

• Create and maintain manufacturing project plans, launch timing, industrialization deliverables, and milestone tracking.

• Lead MSD workshops, process flow development, and manufacturing readiness reviews.

• Develop production line concepts including equipment selection, material flow, cycle time analysis, traceability, and automation strategies.

• Drive PFMEA, manufacturing risk assessments, process validation, and capability studies (Cp/Cpk).

• Define equipment requirements, manage RFQs/SOWs, support supplier selection, and oversee equipment buy-offs.

• Support prototype, DV, PV, and customer builds while ensuring lessons learned are incorporated into future launches.

• Escalate technical, timing, quality, and cost risks and drive recovery actions to protect SOP commitments.

Your Background 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical field.

• Demonstrated ability to transform product designs into robust, scalable, and cost-effective manufacturing solutions.

• Strong knowledge of PFMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, and Production Validation processes.

• Experience working with automotive standards such as IATF 16949, VDA, customer-specific requirements.

• Hands-on experience with manufacturing processes including SMT, assembly automation, test systems, traceability, and process validation.

• Ability to interpret drawings, GD&T requirements, technical specifications, DFMEA outputs, and design documentation.

• Strong project management skills with experience leading cross-functional industrialization and launch activities.

• Proven problem-solving capability using methodologies such as 8D, A3, Root Cause Analysis, DMAIC, or similar structured approaches.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills in a global environment, including customer-facing technical discussions.

• Self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset and working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.

Why join us?

• You can grow at Aptiv. Aptiv provides an inclusive work environment where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity or beliefs.

• You can have an impact. Safety is a core Aptiv value; we want a safer world for us and our children, one with: Zero fatalities, Zero injuries, Zero accidents.

• You have support. We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family and your physical and mental health with a competitive health insurance package.

Your Benefits at Aptiv:

• Private health care (Signal Iduna) and Life insurance for you and your beloved ones

• Well-Being Program that includes regular webinars, workshops, and networking events

• Hybrid work (min. 47 days/yr of remote work, flexible working hours)

• Employee Pension Plan paid by the employer (you get + 3,5% on each gross salary.

• Access to sports groups and Multisport card

Apply today, and together let’s change tomorrow!

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