Senior Product Industrialization Expert - Hydraulic Hose M

Job Description

The Senior Industrialization Engineer – is responsible for industrialization excellence across the IAM organization. This role ensures that new products, technologies, and engineering changes are industrialized and transferred into serial production in a scalable, robust, and cost‑effective manner across multiple manufacturing sites.

Serving as an SME to manufacturing plants, this position leads complex industrialization initiatives and ensures consistent launch readiness, process capability, and stable production performance. Leveraging deep expertise in hydraulic hose manufacturing processes and product–process interactions, the role drives problem solving, standardization, risk mitigation, continuous improvement, and alignment with global industrialization strategies.

The position is responsible for the industrialization of products across multiple hydraulic hose plants within IAM, directly influencing the successful execution, industrialization, and continuous improvement of products representing approximately €300 M in annual revenue.

Location: Conti Tech Fairlawn OH, Open to locations in Norfolk, NE or Mount Pleasant IA.

• Serve as Business Area technical authority for hydraulic hose manufacturing processes, ensuring consistent standards and capability across all sites.
• Lead end‑to‑end industrialization of new products from design definition through launch and stable serial production.
• Provide expert guidance on manufacturing technologies, materials, and assembly processes, including escalation and problem‑solving support.
• Define and optimize processes, equipment concepts, tooling, and layouts to meet safety, quality, cost, scalability, and capability targets.
• Drive DFM/DFA alignment with Product Development, Quality, Operations, and cross‑functional teams.
• Provide technical support for engineering changes to ensure controlled, disruption‑free implementation.
• Lead improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Support structured problem‑solving using Lean and Six Sigma tools (A3, 8D, DMAIC, SPC, MSA).
• Lead optimization initiatives addressing cycle time, yield, scrap, and cost.
• Deploy and govern manufacturing best practices and technical standards to ensure consistency and long‑term process robustness.
• Support PPI Leadership with reviewing post‑launch manufacturing performance to ensure stable serial production and compliance with industrialization standards.
• Support PPI Leadership with monitoring of KPIs for quality, efficiency, capability, and cost to ensure sustained technical performance.
• Identify and assess industrialization risks and coordinate mitigation actions with plant teams.
• Analyze trends and deviations to prevent recurrence and drive proactive improvement.
• Support PPI Leadership with reporting of performance, risks, and improvement actions to PPI, Business Area leadership, and Management.
• Drive implementation and adherence to global product and process standards across locations.
• Define, maintain, and deploy technical guidelines and best practices in alignment with sector and plant teams.
• Serve as subject matter expert for hydraulic hose industrialization, providing training, coaching, and technical support to engineers and plant teams.
• Support introduction of new technologies, materials, and processes through proper validation, documentation, and standardization.

THE PERKS

• Immediate Benefits
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Assistance & Employee Discounts
• Employer 401(k) Match
• Competitive Bonus Programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Future Growth Opportunities, including personal and professional
• And many more benefits that come with working for a global industry leader!

EEO-Statement:

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