Engineering & Development Project Leader

ENGINEERING & DEVELOPMENT PROJECT LEADERHungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution
- OPmobility is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies. With a €11.4 billion economic revenue in 2023, a global network of 152 plants and 40 R&D centers, OPmobility relies on its 40,300 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.
- Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.
- **Missions**
- Ensures the product design and product industrialization including associated tools (moulds, checking fixtures, validation equipment, etc.) within the QCT requirements (non-event launches, robust manufacturing)
- Ensures cross functional management of the extended team
- Ensures lessons learned
** Activities**:

- Product design & validation:

- Works according to HSE requirements
- Can be involved in upstream phases of the project (expertise phase, acquisition phase)
- Analyses Customer Needs and Draw-up PO Specifications
- Defines the concepts of the product design to meet customers specifications and GD&T and ensure that the Plastic Omnium standard conception rules are respected
- Ensures that the design for manufacturing (assembly, paint, plant & packaging) are fulfilled
- Is the main technical contact with the customer during the design & tuning phases
- Is responsible for providing functional specifications for baby parts
- Manages and perform risk analysis (DFMEA + Design reviews)
- Manages Specifications, manufacturing and validation of the means (injection tools, checking fixtures, test jigs, End Of Arm Tooling)
- Manages Product validation (functional, geometry and cosmetic quality)
- Manages Product tuning (mold tuning, checking fixture tuning)
Project Management:

- Defines initial Statement of Work of product engineering perimeter including extended team, regarding project perimeter, development budget (hours, hourly rate, travel cost) and Optimap Work Packages
- Defines and set up the engineering project planning
- Manages the engineering project reviews, consolidates actions and provides reporting and action plans
- Participates to QUAD (product & process feasibility milestones) reviews
- Tracks perimeter changes and reports to the PM
- Proposes adjustments and modifications linked to perimeter evolution during project life time
- Participates in Launch Readiness process
Budget management:

- Ensures product PRU commitment for the design relevant criteria
- Determines the project provisional budget (hours and cost)
- Allocates the budget to his extended team & guarantees resource availability with the manager
- Determines internal and external perimeter regarding SOW,
- Tracks perimeter changes due to customer or internal ones and reports to the PM. Proposes adjustments and modifications linked to perimeter evolution during project life time,
- Insures the follow up of project budget and releases warnings to PM and métiers managers in case of gaps.
- Contributes to investment optimization through part design
Continuous Improvements:

- Participates to capitalization and to productivity actions
- At the end of the project, participates to the closure of project and gives feedback regarding best practices and difficulties
- Depending on the project size, he/she can also handle some activities of the extended team.
- **Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s with experience or Master’s degree.
- English
- Design and/or development of plastic parts for automotive industry
- Project management skills
Leadership, able to make clear synthesis, organized, rigorous, good communication
- **Date**:Dec 23, 2025- **Location**:Barcelona, ES- **Job Requisition ID**:387156