Process Improvement Lead

The Role :

We are seeking a Process Improvement Lead who will support GKN Automotive Engineering business process development.

Key responsibilities include :

• Define Process & Tools improvement strategy at the Organizational level with the approval from Senior Management and monitor / report the Process / Tools improvement strategy as per the defined periodicity.
• Process improvement lead shall have good exposure to System Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Software Engineering and associated methods and tools to define and implement the relevant methods in the tools based on the agreed processes.
• To ensure the processes are released in the Landscape STAGES according to the ASPICE, ISO 21434, ISO 26262 and ensuring compliance within the Engineering Organization.
• To ensure the process and our tools are aligned. The Process lead shall have a good understanding of Method Park STAGES, Enterprise Architect, Business Intelligence tools (PowerBI, Grafana) and also the Application Life cycle management tools (Windchill RV&S or Code beamer or Polarion etc.,)
• Act as interface between Process and Tools team and the other engineering domains to define the right methods for the processes.
• Support ASPICE L2 topic across the engineering organization, to define, implement the objectives together with the Process Manager.
• Process improvement lead is responsible with Process Manager to define the requirements needed for ISO standards / ASPICE and the team from Safety / Security needs to review the defined processes before release to the Process landscape
• Create & provide training in case of identified training needs to support implementation of processes and tools (Identification of trainings needs itself is from the responsible manager of the employee and the HR).
• Leading the Process & Tools CCB meetings to ensure the processes defined and the implementation in the tools match each other.

Who you’ll be :

To be successful in this position, you will have proven experience in Automotive domain and hands on experience in Process Development, Process modeling, Tools know-how especially in the complete V-model development.

Essential Skills

• Engineering or Post Graduate Engineering degree
• 3 to 8 years of relevant experience in Automotive domain
• Experience in Process modeling & Process architecture
• Strong in ASPICE and basic concepts about Fusa & Cybersecurity
• Good functional consultant skills bridging process and tools
• Good Problem solving skills
• Python programming & Database scripting will be added advantage.

Tool Skills

• STAGES (Process Modeling)
• Windchill RV&S, RV&S Source PTC Integrity / Code Beamer / Polarion
• Enterprise Architect or any equivalent SW design tool knowledge.
• Business Intelligence tools like Grafana or PowerBI
• Activity management tools like EasyRedmine or JIRA

Language Skills

Must be fluent in English

Travel Requirements

Local Infrequent. Role is based in GKN Bangalore office