Process Technician

Company Description

Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist. Founded in 1871, the company generated sales of €39.7 billion in 2024 and currently employs around 95,000 people in 54 countries and markets.

Tire solutions from the Tires group sector make mobility safer, smarter, and more sustainable. Its premium portfolio encompasses car, truck, bus, two‑wheel, and specialty tires as well as smart solutions and services for fleets and tire retailers. Continental has been delivering top performance for more than 150 years and is one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers. In fiscal 2024, the Tires group sector generated sales of 13.9 billion euros.

Continental's tire division employs more than 57,000 people worldwide and has 20 production and 16 development sites.

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The Process Technician will support the Process Engineer to convert product and manufacturing requirements into process specification.

• support to monitor, maintain and continuously improve our process performance with respect to Safety, Quality, Process Capability, Efficiency, and Scrap.
• responsible to achieve required output/volume per machine or operator
• ensure that production orders are followed and completed on time as per the sequencing requirements
• monitor production output/volume and take corrective action when targets are not met by applying structured problem solving techniques to prevent this from reoccurring.
• ensure that PE team members adhere to company policy and regulations by enforcing applicable rules
• support required disciplinary procedures with subordinates that does not follow company policy and rules
• identifying specific training needs for the team members and ensure the development and training of the people are carried out via support from SFT and HR.
• support to manage the related processes under technical approach according and with respect to the Plant Targets inside Budget.
• support for the MAP and PAP of the respective area, as listed but not limited to major change of the process, new article introduction, new equipment
• support problem solving
• support for optimizing and improving the work instruction and all other technical information of respective area
• contribute to the structured problem solving of respective area
• support in finding out technical solution for any kind of problems out of process point of view (Machine/Material/Operator)
• define measures for process improvement and maximum utilization rate of machine
• eliminate all kinds of waste
• use SPA, 7QC Tools, 3Q, 5W and/or other helpful instruments for root cause finding & problem solving with respect to quality
• support any special project, new development assigned by immediate superior
• support any process request or modification
• support and keep the Recipe Management up to date
• support Manufacturing Systems and/or Recipe Management Systems in his Position related Area(s) with full respect to Quality-, Production-, Safety- and IE Rules (MMS (Mixing Management System), WPS (Work Place Specification), SFI (Shop Floor Integration), CGRS (Conti Global Recipe Solutions), QDA (Quality Data Acquisition), MVTS (Material Validation & Treasibility System), MCAT (Material Control & Tracking), FFDACS, Curing History, PoMS (Process oriented Management System), ELISA (Extended Logistic and Supply Chain), SFE (Shop Floor Execution), TTKF (Team Trainer Knowledge Force) or any other production systems)
• implement and maintain capable, efficient & stable production processes that satisfy the Process Excellence objectives
• process stability
• implementation of Process improvement
• reduce Process variation
• process risk assessment with continuous improvement
• support all what is needed to be in time with ETO/ISD from Process Point of View
• support the CBT2 and CBT1 Team
• communicate all relevant information related to QSCPS (Quality, Safety, Cost, People, Speed (Volume))
• participate related meetings to take and discuss matter related to QSCPS
• review customer supplier chart with the team members, and communicate and take required actions
• support of the Process Engineer in all relevant, work related…