Test Equipment Specialist IV

Job Description

FORVIA HELLA is a listed international automotive supplier. As a company of the FORVIA Group, FORVIA HELLA stands for high-performance lighting technology and vehicle electronics and, with the Lifecycle Solutions Business Group, also covers a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special vehicles. With currently around 36,500 employees at over 125 locations, the Company is active worldwide and generated adjusted sales of 8.1 billion in fiscal year 2024. Job Objective Steering, coordination and execution of planning, development and implementation of test equipment as well as monitoring / maintenance and introduction of improvement measures Duties and Responsibilities A Testing 1 Planning, creating and agreeing test concepts (models, set-ups, simulations, test circuits) for components, sub-assemblies, devices and systems; involvement in/supporting the creation of requirement specifications and test specifications 2 Planning of test equipment in consideration of Hella regulation, Hella standards and legal requirement specifications, data sheets and specifications for new products and preparing of quotations together with internal or external partners 3 Determine and arranging of procurement of needed material, components and systems. Following up the procurement process to ensure the in time delivery 4 Creating/Changing or arranging creation/change of test software as well as designing test circuits in agreement with the affected partners 5 Supervising set-up and verification of new test equipment in domestic plant or abroad as well as arrangement and execution of user trainings 6 Arrangement for creation and updating all relevant documentation 7 Steering and executing in monitoring of the used test equipment in the running production and laboratory as well as suggestion and implementation of improvement / cost reduction action (continuous improvement) 8 Involvement in the processing of customer claims and production difficulties in agreement with e. g. quality department, production, laboratory etc. 9 Daily direct support to production and laboratory for failure analysis, maintenance, repair and calibration of test equipment and test software together with internal and external partners B Projecting 1 Leading of project teams for any kind of product / product family related cost improvements