Process and Product Engineer

Company Description
Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2024, Continental generated sales of €39.7 billion and currently employs around 190,000 people in 55 countries and markets.

Company Description
Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2024, Continental generated sales of €39.7 billion and currently employs around 190,000 people in 55 countries and markets. Conti Tech s industrial growth areas are primarily in the areas of energy, agriculture, construction, and surfaces.

In addition, Conti Tech serves the automotive and transportation industries as well as rail transport.

Job Description
Manages new product introduction and production support engineering for a specific product or group of products after transfer from design to in-house or outsourced production. Interfaces with design, process, test, reliability and manufacturing engineering to solve product issues and production problems.

Develops and sustains process improvements to reduce production costs and increase yields. Coordinate and control all production activities in order to meet budget and production targets (e.g. maximize quality and capacity utilization, reduce cost and lead time). Furthermore, the Head of Production initiates and implements action plans for the continuous improvement of all production-relevant processes.

• Provide production technical support, quality testing reviews, and troubleshooting of production technical problems.
• Coordinate processing, technical, and quality activities of the department.
• Responsible for developing rubber technology knowledge, pursuing cost reductions for current products and processes, maintaining quality standards, and providing technical and decision-making support to the operators on the factory floor.
• Providing technical customer service; communication with the customer in connection with all technical questions concerning rubber compounds.
• Introduce, develop, and look after the recipes to ensure meeting the customer requirements. Accompany mixing trials and processing trials at the customer.
• Responsible for the disposition of non-conforming material according to standards.
• Maintains reliable processing, compound, and raw material specifications.
• Sets up experimental laboratory and factory evaluation trials in product and process areas.
• Maintains technical and quality status reporting requirements.
• Serves as a source of chemical awareness and compliance.
• Contribute to strategic and operative planning of the Compounding operations unit (e.g., with respect to investments, health and safety, quality and capacity)
• Meets daily with mix employees to assess stock and production performance.
• Resolves technical problems that arise with stocks, materials, and equipment
• Assist in product release strategy and product return process.
• Focused efforts on driving/implementing new technology to eliminate factory stock processing problems and implement Poke Yoke methods.
• Improves physical properties of existing compounds using new techniques.
• Provides technical support for equipment design and new or improved processing equipment.
• Assembles and analyzes data regarding compound performances.
• Uses analytical troubleshooting techniques in problem-solving activities.
• Maintain and improve Quality systems to meet ISO: and internal standards
• Participate in Internal/External Quality audits.
• Ensure Processing/Quality performance (KPI) monitoring and reporting (e.g., regarding waste, customer complaints, etc.) in cooperation with plant controlling and production.
• Participate in or steer local mixing related and cross-functional projects.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering:
  Chemical Engineering,…