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 2023, Continental generated sales of €41.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 56 countries and markets.

Guided by the vision of being the customer's first choice for material-driven solutions, the ContiTech group sector focuses on development competence and material expertise for products and systems made of rubber, plastics, metal and fabrics. These can also be equipped with electronic components in order to optimize them functionally for individual services. ContiTech's industrial growth areas are primarily in the areas of energy, agriculture, construction and surfaces. In addition, ContiTech serves the automotive and transportation industries as well as rail transport.

About Original Equipment Solutions:

With more than 17.000 employees and around 2bn€ sales, present in 15 countries with 35 locations and tech centers – OESL is a global player in the automotive sector with extended material competence in rubber, plastic and metal, serving all major OEM’s and commercial vehicle customers’ needs with millions of parts in high quality.

OESL – Original Equipment Solutions, For Future Mobility.

Are you ready to move ForwardTogether with a global, dedicated and experienced team? 

Join us and take the opportunity to contribute to our future in the fundamentally changing automotive industry with your new role as a R&D Quality Excellence Manager (m/f/diverse) in the stand-alone business area Original Equipment Solutions (OESL).

In your position as a R&D Quality Excellence Manager (m/f/d) you ensure compliance of R&D processes in regard to IATF 16949 and other related regulations within the business area OESL. You safeguard the respect of relevant corporate rules within the BA R&D processes and ensure high quality of development results by internal audits, spot checks and data analysis. Furthermore you improve our processes with mappings, methods like lean, problem solving und support the R&D with trainings.

Your position will include the following activities: 

• Ensuring compliance and audit readiness of R&D processes in regard to IATF 16949 and other related regulations
• Implementation and continuous monitoring of quality standards in R&D processes to ensure compliance with IATF 16949 requirements
• Safeguarding the respect of relevant corporate rules and sector rules within the BA R&D processes
• Leading spot checks / deep dives
• Ensuring high quality of development results
• Participate in interdisciplinary project teams and task forces regarding quality topics, internal audits etc.
• Enable a R&D risk management portfolio
• Visualize business processes, apply systematic problem-solving methods, use lean techniques, map IT workflows for better integration, and continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Interface to quality department for internal audits to ensure the conformity to our development process rules
• Support in finding new ways to share the generated R&D knowledge with our internal customers like application engineering
• Lead trainings to quality awareness and change management
• Lead generic or R&D projects with global focus
• Strive for process digitalization and automatization in most relevant areas

• Academic degree in business engineering, business informatic, mechanical engineering, material engineering or equivalent field of study
• Profound experience with quality management (systems) / IATF 16949
• Knowledge of improving business systems and lean management methodologies
• Long term professional experience within an innovational environment with process and project management, training / coaching and specific technical experiences within automotive industry 
• Business fluent German and English language skills written and spoken
• Exchange, coach and moderate international teams
• Effective communication skills and ability to work with and in international teams

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:​

• Training opportunities​
• Mobile and flexible working models​
• Sabbaticals​
• and much more...​

Sounds interesting for you? Click here to find out more.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation. ​

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