Body in White Team Leader

Italdesign is a service company providing design, engineering and production for the transportation industry, through to final testing and type-approval and support into starting of production and the design of complete Business models. Italdesign is based in Moncalieri, Torino, Italy and today has premises of more than 50.000 squared meters, a full-scale design and engineering campus and a cutting edge development and prototyping center. It has about 1000 employees in Italy, Germany and Spain. Italdesign offers its services to all interested parties worldwide. In 2017 Italdesign launched as additional business, a dedicated unit to design, develop and produce ultra-limited vehicles for all OEMs Worldwide: Italdesign Automobili Speciali. Research and innovation has enabled a continuous growth, along with the ability to choose competent and motivated people, united by a real and concrete passion for excellence. People are able to compete every day with the complexity and competitiveness of the market, able to work in integrated teams, to express their creativity in every field, to give the best of themselves in any conditions. In 2023 Italdesign obtained the Top Employers Certification for the eighth consecutive year.

Posizione : Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Team Leader, who will be employed in the Body in White team, part of the Body Exterior department of the italian site of Italdesign. S/He will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.

Responsabilities

The role, focused on the coordination of a work team aimed at the development of Body in White within a vehicle development project, requires at least 2 years of experience in the automotive sector. S/He will take an active part in:

• Control/monitoring of timing, costs and quality of work;
• Functional management and coordination of the work team, product suppliers and management of collaboration with other internal department;
• Customer management;
• Achievement of the project’s technical goals, relevant to the perimeter of responsibility;
• Performance monitoring and improvement areas proposals; take part/execute testing activities;
• Testing activities planning and sharing;
• Management of "escalation" activities relating to major problems with a proposed/recommended solution;
• Promotion of the work of the Organizational Unit within the company and towards of the Group Brands.

Requisiti : Key requirements

• Knowledge of the Body in White as a product (guidelines, best practices, costs and time);
• Production technologies and tooling lead time (Sheet metal, Aluminium, Composite, stamping, welding, surface treatments);
• Materials technologies (material characteristics) and joining technologies;
• Ability to transform technical contents/targets into economic constraints and geometric constraints into feasible process solutions;
• Knowledge of the physical phenomena involved in the performance and knowledge of the attention points to be monitored;
• Knowledge of testing procedures, protocols, standards, targets/performances and ratings related to the Body in white perimeter to be verified;
• Procurement process for testing parts/objects and vehicles;
• Development and design techniques and processes (design review, robust design, FMEA, GD&T);
• Ability to manage component and system suppliers;
• Ability to organize/motivate a teamwork depending on needs and contingent situations;
• Problem solving, ability to synthesize information, priority management, proactiveness, flexibility, resilience;
• Intermediation capacity between her/his own team and the other teams involved;
• Decision making skills combined with an assertive and persuasive leadership style;
• Multitasking ability respecting the quality standards and required timelines;
• Ability to anticipate, manage critical situations and provide effective solutions;
• Negotiation skill.

**Preferential requirements

• Technical drawing and modeling (CAD processes, basic knowledge of Catia V5 and data release systems and processes);
• Quality standards, processes, dynamics typical of an OEM car manufacturer;
• Legislative/homologation/rating constraints;
• Knowledge of component verification methods and procedures (eg. testing specifications);
• Ability to spread and transfer methodologies and know-how to her/his project team and the rest of the teams belonging to other departments.

Altre informazioni : Education : Master’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive, Aerospace, Material Engineering or equivalent.

Language skills : Fluent knowledge of written and spoken Italian and English are required.

Knowledge of German would be appreciated.

Workplace : Moncalieri (TO) and availability to travel.

Benefit : continuous training (technical, soft and languages skills), company canteen, mobility services, health insurance, car leasing program, car pooling platform, smart working, flexible benefits, good work-life balance