Senior SSL Industrialization Engineer

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The ams OSRAM Group is a global leader in innovative light and sensor solutions. With more than 110 years of industry experience, we combine engineering excellence and global manufacturing with a passion for cutting‑edge innovation enabling transformative advancements in the automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer industries. “Sense the power of light” – our success is based on the deep understanding of the potential of light and a distinct portfolio of emitter and sensor technologies.

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The Senior SSL Industrialization Engineer leads the industrialization of automotive Solid State Lighting (SSL) products and SMT‑based manufacturing processes, ensuring robust launch readiness, process capability, and scalable production performance. This role partners closely with product & design engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and marketing to transfer new products into stable, cost‑effective manufacturing while meeting automotive customer, reliability, and quality requirements.

• PIT (Product Introduction Team) Leader for end‑to‑end industrialization of automotive SSL products, product revisions, and process changes from design transfer through launch and production ramp‑up. Other project opportunities could include plant footprint, obsolescence, or traditional lighting technologies.
• Lead cross‑functional teams across manufacturing, product engineering, quality, supply chain, marketing, packaging, accounting, and program management to align product launch plans, cost targets, timing, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain detailed project timelines and schedules to support customer RFQs, product launches, validation activities, equipment readiness, and cross‑functional deliverables.
• Lead projects through Q‑gate methodology, ensuring deliverables, risks, and readiness criteria are completed and reviewed at each phase of development and launch.
• Lead and coordinate make‑or‑buy analyses and quotation activities to support sourcing decisions, manufacturing strategy, and competitive customer proposals.
• Develop customer RFQ quotations by coordinating inputs across manufacturing, engineering, sourcing, packaging, finance, and commercial teams to ensure accurate costing, feasibility, timing, and launch assumptions.
• Identify new production technologies and collaborate with global industrialization teams to standardize equipment, processes, and best practices across regions and product lines.
• Coordinate SMT‑related manufacturing readiness activities, including development and validation of processes for stencil printing, component placement, reflow, inspection, and test.
• Partner with product & design engineering to drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly, design for test, reliability, and cost optimization for LED, electronics, and lamp‑level assemblies.
• Develop and maintain key launch deliverables such as process flow diagrams, PFMEA, control plans, work instructions, setup documentation, and capacity plans.
• Coordinate prototype, pilot, and pre‑production builds to validate process capability, material flow, tooling, fixtures, and operator readiness.
• Collaborate with quality teams to support APQP, PPAP, process validation, and launch documentation aligned to automotive customer requirements.
• Support equipment specification, line balancing, automation opportunities, and capital planning for new or modified manufacturing lines.
• Work closely with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure component, material, and equipment readiness for successful product launch.
• Standardize best practices across SSL and SMT operations and mentor junior engineers, technicians, and cross‑functional teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, industrialization, new product introduction, or process engineering…