Would you like to be part of a truly world class brand? With our various Company brands, we are the world's leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorbikes, as well as a provider of premium financial and mobility services. Our team consists of around 120,000 creative minds from the most diverse nations, who all have one thing in common: passion and the drive to shape the individual and sustainable mobility of the future. Passion for future technologies and enthusiasm for innovative ideas. This passion, but above all the diversity of our teams, has formed the basis of our success for more than 100 years and makes us a very special employer. Within the Interior Surface Centre at the home of the Company, we are privileged to manufacture the highest quality interior trim components using a wide variety of process technologies. We currently have an exciting opportunity within our Process Planning team for an Interior Trim Planner. The Interior Trim Planner is responsible for planning, developing and innovating our new and existing production processes and systems. They are also responsible for investigating and optimising existing processes through the structured application of VPS (Lean) principles. They strongly collaborate and guide the PSP (Production Specialist) in their daily tasks and projects. The Interior Trim Planner also supports developing, implementing and documenting standards, focusing on robust processes, layouts, flows, equipment and information flow. The Interior Trim Planner supports production associates and leaders in specific skilled elements of our processes, providing experience, guidance and training. The Interior Trim Planner also supports the process leaders in standard Work Organisation, including customer protection, problem solving, implementing solutions and continuous improvement. The Interior Trim Planner role is successfully executed with a careful balance of hands-on support and strong project planning through effective organisational and priority led skills. A typical day will include: * Project planning, creating, monitoring and managing multiple projects to achieve time and financial requirements * Presenting project / situation status, ideas and plans * Articulating complex ideas and situations to non-technical personnel * Attending daily Work Organisation meetings when required, assisting with and leading problem solving activities * Having a conscious approach to business, understanding the impact to quality, cost and time and being able to provide strong business cases * Researching and developing process technologies as part of continuous improvements or assigned projects * Guiding the development of standard operating instructions, training, checking and validating effectiveness * Contribute and be an active member in reviewing existing and developing new processes through the use of industry standard methods and tools * Provide a high quality, responsive service to the production teams * Be an active participant in VPS (lean) development for processes and systems * Experience within a low volume, high mix production environment, specifically technical support, process engineering, systems engineering or manufacturing engineering * Conversant with industry standard process methods and tools; lean manufacturing techniques, PFMEA, control plans, value stream maps * Strong project management and planning skills, able to manage and prioritise multiple priorities. * Experience in wood craft or carbon fibre technologies would be a significant advantage * Experience in the procurement of both standard and bespoke industrial equipment. * Highly logical and able to assimilate large amounts of disparate information to formulate conclusions, plans and actions. * Excellent organisational , presentation and problem solving skills * Highly effective communication skills, written, verbal and non-verbal. Confident at communicating at all levels and the ability to perform in challenging situations. * Must work effectively with all internal departments as well as creating strong relationships with external suppliers * Excellent IT skills (Microsoft packages), CAD, Microsoft Project (or equivalent) strong understanding of machine control logic; programming experience an advantage. * Fluent English is essential and basic German is an advantage Index Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. "Due to the high volume of applications, we currently receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you do not hear from a Consultant within 5 working days unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion
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