Job opportunities in Italdesign

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Team Leader, who will be employed in the Exterior Mechatronic team of the Italian site of Italdesign. S/He will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.

Responsibilities

The role, focused on the coordination of a work team aimed at the development of Exterior Visibility Systems within a vehicle development project, requires at least 2 years of experience in the automotive sector. S/he will take an active part in:

• Control/monitoring of timing, costs and quality of work;
• Management of the work team, product suppliers and management of collaboration with other internal department;
• Customer management;
• Achievement of the project’s technical objectives relevant to the perimeter of responsibility;
• Management of "escalation" activities relating to serious problems with a proposed solution;
• Promotion of the work of the Organizational Unit within the company and towards of the Group Brands.

Italdesign is looking for an organized, detail-oriented Accounting Specialist, who will be employed in Accounts Payable Team, belonging to the Finance department of Italdesign.

Responsibilities

• Suppliers invoices posting (IT, EU, Extra-EU);
• Provide accurate accounts reconciliations relative to the AP function in accordance with internal procedures;
• Supporting & being involved in monthly and annual closing activities;
• Managing analytical accounting activities;
• Managing communications with the other internal functions involved in purchasing cycle;
• Managing communication with suppliers and any payment reminders;
• Responsibility to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.
  

Italdesign is expanding its activities in the field of System Integration at different level.

As member of Integration team you will be involved in different projects to integrate new/modified component or system in existing Group platforms.

System Integration is referring to different relevant task into V-Model, as Integration Management, Test management, Configuration/compatibility management and Hardware/Software release management.

Integration Management controls the integration of the networked functions until the timely E/E networking release is issued. To manage project milestones, this department prepares and distributes a weekly E/E status report and an E/E integration report at the end of each SW/HR release. The described and underlying reporting system is presented in intervals of up to one week in appropriate committees.

You will be part of an interdisciplinary, networked and Agile team. Together with Integration specialists you will be part of the development process for pre-series and series vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Create the planning of relevant functions and monitoring;
• Create the planning of relevant integration components and monitoring;
• Interface with development department for change request evaluation and periodical report to the Management and Client;
• Create of E/E integration planning and monitoring in specific tool, including an overview of ECUs that are subject to change;
• Requirements-based recommendation for statements on target deviations or appointment changes from departments;
• Target/actual comparison of Features maturity and, if necessary, ECUs maturity for each SW release;
• Create complete E/E integration report including the above mentioned content;
• Present the E/E Integration status at Management Meetings.

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Team Leader, who will be employed in the Bumpers - Front End. team, part of the Body Esterior department of the italian site of Italdesign. He/She will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.

Responsibilities

The role, focused on the coordination of a work team aimed at the development of Bumpers - Front End within a vehicle development project, requires at least 2 years of experience in the automotive sector. He/She will take an active part in:

• Control/monitoring of timing, costs and quality of work;
• Management of the work team, product suppliers and management of collaboration with other internal department;
• Customer management;
• Achievement of the project’s technical objectives relevant to the perimeter of responsibility;
• Management of "escalation" activities relating to serious problems with a proposed solution;
• Promotion of the work of the Organizational Unit within the company and towards of the Group Brands.

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Simultaneous Engineering Team Leader who will be employed in the department IG/ER-2E.

Responsabilities:

• Organize weekly SET-Meetings: identify relevant attendees, send invitations and Agenda, prepare LOPs and Minutes;
• Arrange, steer and manage special meetings with AUDI Finance, Purchasing, Quality, Production, Bill of Material (BOM), UAs, HT, Suppliers to solve those SET-related issues which could not be solved during the regular SET Meetings;
• Attend the following meetings and providing all the necessary documents, where required:
• SET-Meeting
• the ÄKO-Runde (if any ÄKO is due to be discussed)
• the Commitment- Meeting with parts Suppliers, if involved in the Project
• Meetings with Plant Experts
• Project Meeting with I/ER-x Leader
• any possible other meeting (like FMK, Secondary surfaces, FMEA, Technical meetings, Simulations Meetings, Cubing, General Project Meeting, ...) on demand and as "Deputy" of EK-Dept. from Italdesign if necessary
• Prepare ÄKO’s for technical modification or P-/B-/K-Releases with IDG BTV.
• Collect the information from Plant Production experts and/or Suppliers in term of cost and timing.
• Presentation of the ÄKO’s in SET-Meeting.
• Support the Team-Leader from Italdesign to prepare technical-documentations for ÄKOs and special meetings/events.
  
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Italdesign is looking for an electronic/ mechatronics/ automotive engineer willing to join a young team, taking care of development of Body and Comfort related ECUs and functions, dealing with an international customers’ portfolio both inside and outside the VW Group.

Responsibilities

• Main Responsible for the development/integration of Electronic control units and functions inside the vehicle for the body & comfort electronics perimeter
• Project status reporting
• Technical agreements with all included parties
• Project and Supplier steering
• SW Release management in the tracking systems
• Steering and Tracking of the testing activities.

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic person, who would be Specialist in management and development of customer studies and research in the Human Centered Design Approach (ISO 9241-210) in the process that is aimed to define the desired User Experience with also knowledge of ergonomics criteria in transportation fields.

Responsibilities

• Definition ad development of Customer experience activities;
• Knowledge and autonomous management of different project methodologies:

o Clinics* development: Screener preparation, Method guide preparation, Material for studies conduction, Data analysis, Report preparation;

o Research activities;

o Benchmarking.

*Clinics can be required are the following:

- Surveys and Interviews (remote or on-site);

- Usage Context Analysis (remote or on-site);

- Focus group (remote or on-site);

- Ideation workshop (remote or on-site);

- Prototype testing (digital and/or physical);

• Depending on the method, the following additional specific requirements may apply:

- Expert workshop (remote or on-site)

- Analysis of existing internal content;

- Analysis of existing external content;

- Competitors analysis.

• Track and solve issues through various phases and travel to customer sites to agreed Project content.

Italdesign is expanding its activities in the field of System Integration at different level.

As member of Integration team you will be involved in different projects to integrate new/modified component or system in existing Group platforms.

You will implement the technical concepts required by standards and regulations according to the specific project constraints.

You will evaluate performance and functional results to manage final release of the integration process and remove defects affecting the related functional domain.

You will be responsible for SW and HW configuration and ensure all system works properly together.

You will be part of an interdisciplinary, networked and Agile team. Together with Integration specialists and Integration step manager you will be part of the development process for series and pre-series vehicle.

Responsibilities

· System requirements and System test requirements creation and maintenance;

· Interface with development department for change request evaluation and periodical report to the Group;

· Design and execution of Functional smoke tests on test benches both in simulation environment and with real ECU;

· Design and execution of Functional and Integration tests on complete vehicle;

· Understand various system role inside the vehicle architecture and its platform specific implementations from both HW and SW point of view;

· Interface with other Function Developers to define and manage function impacts on other domains;

· Take care of requirement traceability and check list reports;

· Manage impacts to New SW due to vehicle architecture changes: troubleshooting and DTCs analysis;

· Steer the CR for Tier I supplier for SW upgrades and bug fixes;

· Manage the production release process to finally deliver the component in series ensuring the product quality;

· Deep diagnosis on board for all system and ECUs;

· Responsible for SW and HW configuration installed in the vehicle.

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Verification and Validation (V&V) Performance Engineer, who will be employed in the Vehicle Validation and Verification department of Italdesign based in Turin, having the opportunity of business travel worldwide.

S/He will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.

Responsibilities

• Definition of a V&V testing strategy and synergetic testing plan;
• Performance of maturity level tests;
• Confirmation of the planned maturity levels of all vehicle functions;
• Ensure that all vehicle functions reach the maturity levels in time according to the milestones;
• Coordination and tracking of all V&V activities for the system and sub-systems;
• Creation of status reports including risk analysis and escalation in case of deviations;
• Presenting of status reports even on high management level;
• Creation and presentation of the vehicle characteristics report;
• Planning, preparation and active attendance to test drives on management level.
  

Italdesign is looking for a cluster Project Function Responsible.

Responsabilities:

• Control of the Milestones Function development process
• Taking over/driving results E/E concept development & clarification of open topics in the cluster
• Control cluster functions based on FuLi
• Coordination/time tracking Provision of functional specifications for cluster functions for vehicle start-up in coordination with FPV
• Evaluation & definition of reporting and control-relevant functions of the vehicle project in coordination with E/E overall FPV
• Control creation of function schedules for functions of the cluster
• Monitoring implementation of functional teams for functions of his cluster
• Content development of functional start-up blocks in coordination with FPV
• Control & tracking ticket reduction including management of required meetings (e.g. ticket control board)
• Coordinates the creation of functional releases of all reporting and control-relevant functions of his/her cluster
• Escalation level & communication interface for functions of his/her cluster regarding the technical status (including functional maturity, release), both within the cluster and externally to clusters

Italdesign is looking for a charismatic person, a great lover of challenges and innovation, especially in the automotive sector, with excellent management skills and strategic vision, who wants to join the new Italdesign office in the United States with the position of Head of Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Interaction with customers, negotiate projects workloads, teams’ structures and deliverables;
• Build and manage the technical team, assess its performance and motivate their members to anticipate, manage critical situations and provide effective solutions;
• Manage workloads and priorities, coordinate between US and HQ, daily tasks accordingly with projects goals and company strategy;
• Give value to the competences of his/her employees and promote development and engagement for the company;
• Support the Engineering Department to prepare recommendations for Investments and Headcount to be submitted to Italdesign Management Committee for his/her field of responsibility;
• Active and responsible role in finding the best trade off in case of conflict between performances/boundary conditions, together with all the involved and relevant OU’s;
• Guarantee the robustness of the technical solutions adopted in product development process;
• Drive the growth of the team to a suitable size, in order to be able to cover new additional strategic projects;
• Manage the relationship between US technical team other Company’s OU;
• Supervise US technical team activities to meet budget requirements and deadlines;
• Set strategic targets, supervise and measure the progresses, making sure they are going in the given direction;
• Effective monitoring of the economic resources;
• Coordinate, harmonize and approve:

- Personnel evaluation & development plan

- Organisation changes

- Project development budget

before submitting them for the final approval to the relevant Committees

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic person eager to join Project Management department dedicated on Pre Series (PS) activities and on Ultra Low Series Production (ULSP). Strong verbal and written communicational skills, ability to handle multiple assignments together with above-average analytical and problem solving capabilities, are highly recommended. In this department, you will act as PM of the project to lead a project team in delivering a solution according to the defined timing plan, assuring it is delivered in budget, on schedule, and within scope to the explicit and implied requirements, guaranteeing requested quality, and provide periodic status reports.

A minimum of 5-years previous experience in the automotive field as project manager is mandatory; a practice in the prototype field is preferable.

Previous experience of the candidate will be merged and implemented with the instruments, procedures and technical aspects specific of our Company with the support of the Department.

Responsibilities

As Project Manager, you will be in charge to steer a project from the early phase till the completion and acceptance of the deliverables by the customer:

· Coordinate the cost estimation internally and prepare the offer to the customer, including negotiation;

· Define Project Job Split and RASIC Definition and Agreement;

· Support to prepare project budget and prepare budget planning and spending with reference to the expected outputs;

· Manage budget and other economic resources to achieve economic targets of the project, Provide analysis to economic figures;

· Prepare overall project planning and detail plan of specific activities in Engineering phase and production phase;

· Understand the company procedures and processes;

· Set up the Working Model and Organization and Management of Meetings;

· Manage Product Description;

· Coordinate the Design Release, Risk Assessment and Change management;

· Support the achievement of projects decisions and outcomes at milestones (collect and control of deliverables expected at the project milestones);

· Facilitate the decision making process;

· Coordinate the communication with the custom, including reporting to customer and customer expectation management

· Key Performance Index monitoring;

· Govern the escalation process within the internal organization;

· Project monitoring and steering improvement actions;

· Organize and manage operative meeting (including reporting);

· Report about Project Status, Quality Status, Cost Status;

· Managing technical Topics with a cross functional approach, with problem solving skill.

· Support/elaborate actions to improve project efficiency, effectiveness reviewing the IDG processes and working model.

· Active and responsible role in finding the best trade off in case of conflict between performances/boundary conditions, together with all the involved and relevant OU’s at project level.

· Support the relationship among the Department involved in the projects

Italdesign is looking for a positive minded, driven and self-motivated by passion for cars, flexible and hard working person, who would be part in Infotainment Development Team.

Responsibilities

• Project budget, time and quality management;
• Teams leading and organization;
• Coordination with customers and suppliers;
• Support the development of advanced infotainment features/functions;
• Escalation point from and to the customer;
• Interface with customers on project management;
• Coordination with other departments/teams;
• Generating technical and project reports and various presentation material to communicate issues, achievements, and technical information for project evaluations and information sharing across the organization.

Italdesign is looking for an enthusiastic and resourceful HR Project Management Specialist to join the Human Resources team, to deal with HR Governance & Compliance topics and directly reporting to CHRO in strategic and ad-hoc projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the roll-out and implementation of compliance related requirements in our legal entities (Italy, Germany, Spain, China)
• Managing internal policies and rules: monitoring and ensuring the drafting and implementation of internal HR procedures and processes
• Supporting strategic projects to include analysis of new business requirements, assessment of different approaches and methods to achieve business objectives
• Researching and analyzing requirements for public fundings and tenders in collaboration with affected stakeholders
• Collaborating with managers and business partners to prepare (ad hoc) reports and presentations

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Team Leader, who will be employed in the Doors team, part of the Body Exterior department of the Italian site of Italdesign. S/He will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.

Responsibilities

The role, focused on the coordination of a work team aimed at the development of Doors within a vehicle development project, requires at least 2 years of experience in the automotive sector. S/He will take an active part in:

· Control/monitoring of timing, costs and quality of work;

· Management of the work team, product suppliers and management of collaboration with others internal department;

· Customer management;

· Achievement of the project’s technical objectives relevant to the perimeter of responsibility;

· Management of "escalation" activities relating to serious problems with a proposed solution;

· Promotion of the work of the Organizational Unit within the company and towards of the Group Brands.

Italdesign is looking for positive and service minded, driven and self-motivated by passion for cars, flexible and hard working person, who would be part in Infotainment Development Team.

Responsibilities

• Understand the E/E Car Architecture to identify the required changes to accommodate the Infotainment System in the car.
• Understand the whole car ecosystem to identify the required SW changes to integrate a new Backend.
• Design and manage the Change Requests for the needed modification, also supporting the Supplier in the development phase.
• Supports the development of advanced infotainment features/functions and their documentation in the requirements tool chain
• Analyze Requirements, Functional Specifications against the target HW
• Interface with customers on system architecture through workshops and design meetings
• Coordination with other design/test departments and suppliers steer
• Project scheduling, management and issue tracking
• Issues investigation and resolution
• Generating technical reports and various presentation material to communicate issues, achievements, and technical information for project evaluations and information sharing across the organization
• Plans and directs software and hardware updates to test facilities

Italdesign is looking for a positive and service minded, driven and self-motivated by passion for cars, flexible and hard working person, who would be part in Infotainment Development Team.

Responsibilities

• Manage all the aspects of HW/SW development of car Instrument cluster device: system requirements and components product cards, component specification release, supplier management, component bench and vehicle validation, test plan and test report;
• Design the Change Requests for the suppliers and support their activities;
• Follow and improve software and hardware development processes;
• Support requirements definition and evaluate technical feasibility of implementation;
• Supports the development of advanced car features/functions and their documentation in the requirements tool chain;
• Interface with customers on system architecture through workshops and design meetings;
• Coordination with other design/test departments and supplier steering;
• Project scheduling, management, and issue tracking;
• Problems item investigation and resolution;
• Generating technical reports and various presentation material to communicate issues, achievements, and technical information for project evaluations and information sharing across the organization;
• Plans and directs software and hardware updates to test facilities.

Italdesign is looking for a Connected Car Specialist to take a lead role in the development of in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems for the technical area of Connectivity.

The candidate will be employed in the Infotainment, Connected Car and User Interface team of the Electrical/Electronics Engineering department in the Moncalieri HQ of Italdesign in Italy.

After an orientiation phase, the successful candidate will work within a specific customer project and fully be responsible for the Connected Car topics.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Project Manager and adhering to all necessary requests;
• Understand the E/E car architecture to accommodate requests for the connectivity of the infotainment system in the car including to other cars (V2V) and backend server infrastructure (V2I);
• Establish and maintain an overview of the customer’s entire automotive cloud ecosystem (incl. Backend technologies), in order to be able to identify and adapt protocol requirements to achieve the required Connectivity goals;
• Support the development of advanced infotainment features/functions and their documentation in the requirements tool chain;
• Interface with customers on Connectivity topics through workshops and meetings;
• Coordinate with other departments and suppliers steering;
• Perform project scheduling, management and issue tracking for Connectivity technical topics;
• Perform problem item investigation and resolution;
• Generate technical reports and various presentation materials to communicate issues, achievements, and technical information for project evaluations and information sharing across the organization;
• Plan and direct software and hardware updates to test facilities.

Italdesign Deutschland is expanding its engineering activities in automotive Exterior and Interior Lighting field and is looking to hire a LightingProject Sys Team Leader to join our Lighting Team.

Responsibilities

• Be the interface of the Project Team toward other departments of the customer that are involved in the different phases of Project/Product development: Purchasing, Commercial, Production, Logistic, Finance, Quality.
• Manage the budget of the project on the base of indication of Customer Sys Team Leader Department and being the reference toward the project teams and external suppliers involved in project development on the basis of the different project/validation phases
• Give clear directions and instructions to all team members (including suppliers and different team components) in order to develop the project being compliant from the economical point of view.
• Report to stakeholders/managers the economical situation of the project
• Verify initially and check regularly that duties, roles and functions of team members are aligned with project requests in term of economical efforts and timing compliance.
• Give clear and unbiased assessment of the movement and nature of projects in relations to production cost and expenses
• Check with project team leaders and with the customer referencee the appropriate time to make advancement on projects and move on to further stages.
• Carryout constant evaluation and adjustment to ensure that project goals are reached in the proper time and at being on line respect to budget forecast
• Maintain direct and open interaction with managers to make sure all resources needed for the project are available and also consider the negotiation of amendments to project plans to achieve proper results
• Regularly interface with all the other IDG department involved in the projects
• Regularly report to management as well as to customer
• Regularly interact and manage suppliers involved in the project checking compliance in terms of timing, performances, cost and validation.

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Parts Development Team Leader, who will be employed in the Powertrain Integration Systems Team, part of the Aerodynamics, Air conditioning and Thermal management department of the Italian site of Italdesign. S/He will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.

Responsibilities

The role, focused on the coordination of a work team aimed at the development of powertrain integration components for high volume production vehicles series, requires at least 2-3 years of experience in the automotive sector. S/He will take an active part in:

• Definition of technical contents needed to ensure proper parts definition;
• Overview and steer the Team during the complete project timeline;
• Control/monitoring of timing, costs and quality of work;
• Management of the work team, product suppliers and management of collaboration with other internal department;
• Customer and suppliers management;
• Achievement of the project’s technical targets relevant to the perimeter of responsibility;
• Management of "escalation" activities relating to serious problems with a proposed solution.

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Simultaneous Engineering Team Leader who will be employed in the department IG/ER.

Responsabilities

• Organize weekly SET-Meetings: identify relevant attendees, send invitations and Agenda, prepare LOPs and Minutes;
• Arrange, steer and manage special meetings with AUDI Finance, Purchasing, Quality, Production, Bill of Material (BOM), UAs, HT, Suppliers to solve those SET-related issues which could not be solved during the regular SET Meetings;
• Attend the following meetings and providing all the necessary documents, where required:
• SET-Meeting
• the ÄKO-Runde (if any ÄKO is due to be discussed)
• the Commitment- Meeting with parts Suppliers, if involved in the Project
• Meetings with Plant Experts
• Project Meeting with I/ER-x Leader
• any possible other meeting (like FMK, Secondary surfaces, FMEA, Technical meetings, Simulations Meetings, Cubing, General Project Meeting, ...) on demand and as "Deputy" of EK-Dept. from Italdesign if necessary
• Prepare ÄKO’s for technical modification or P-/B-/K-Releases with IDG BTV.
• Collect the information from Pland Production experts and/or Suppliers in term of cost and timing.
• Presentation of the ÄKO’s in SET-Meeting.
• Support the Team-Leader from Italdesign to prepare technical-documentations for ÄKOs and special meetings/events.