New Projects Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: New Projects Lead

• Focus: Coordination of new projects and change activities in manufacturing

Description

You will manage and coordinate new projects within the team and plant in Staré Boleslavi, leading meetings, planning, and ongoing status control. The role includes change orders distribution, launch and deviation monitoring, initiation of design changes in Windchill, and ensuring successful customer audit outcomes. You will also support post-EOP activities, contribute to FMEA and reporting (8D when needed), and coordinate customer-facing approvals of new/changed products and processes.

Responsibilities

• Organize and lead project meetings

• Communicate regularly with central functions in the parent plant

• Create and distribute change orders

• Monitor change/launch status, deviations, and project progress

• Develop project plans and verify schedule feasibility

• Initiate design changes (CR, DN) in Windchill for new/changed parts

• Ensure positive results of customer audits for assigned projects

• Maintain open points/corrective actions list and escalate on profitability risks (e.g., component price, low productivity, higher DIR than planned, higher scrap, lower-than-planned standards)

• Support projects after EOP, including spare parts production topics

• Participate in creation of FMEA, capacity planning, sampling, and 8D reports if needed

• Obtain timely inputs from the parent plant (milestones, contracted volumes, DFMEA, 2D/3D documentation, PV test plan, part lists, preliminary financial calculations)

• Communicate with the customer

• Control pre-series samples/products before customer shipment

• Ensure customer approval of new/changed products and processes (PPAP, PPF)

Requirements

• 2 years of experience in a similar position (automotive experience preferred)

• Technical degree (university) or technical secondary education (SŠ) with at least 5 years of practice

• English level B2 (German is a plus)

• User knowledge of MS Office, including MS Project

• Knowledge of APQP project management methodologies

• Experience with sampling per PPAP and VDA 2 and work with FMEA

• Valid driving license class B

Benefits

• Reduced working time: 37.5 hours/week

• Flexible working hours (fixed core 9:00–14:30)

• 5 weeks of vacation

• Annual bonus up to 18,000 CZK (based on company results)

• Pension contribution: 1,400 CZK per month

• Subsidized canteen/plant catering

• Loyalty bonuses based on years worked