Seats Team Leader

**Position**: Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Team Leader, who will be employed in the Seat and Luggage compartment team, part of the Interior Trims department of the italian site of Italdesign. S/he will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development. **Responsabilities** The role, focused on the coordination of a work team aimed at the development of seats within a vehicle development project, requires at least 7-8 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. **Requirements**: **Key requirements** - Knowledge of the seats as a product (guide line, best practices, costs and times, foam and cover development); - Technical drawing and modeling (CAD processes, good knowledge of Catia 5 and data release systems); - Production technologies and tooling times (plastic and foam molding, welding, surface treatments, linings); - Materials technologies (material characteristics); - Ability to transform technical contents/targets into economic constraints and geometric constraints into feasible process solutions; - Knowledge of the physical phenomena involved in the performance and knoweledge of the points of attention to be monitored; - Development and design techniques and processes (design review, robust design, FMEA); - Ability to organize/motivate a teamwork depending on needs and contingent situations; - Problem solving, ability to synthesize information, priority management, proactivity, flexibility, resilience; - Intermediation capacity between his/her own team and the other teams involved; - Ability to manage component suppliers; - Decision making skills combined with an assertive and persuasive leadership style; - Multitasking ability respecting the quality standards and required timelines; - Ability to anticipate, manage critical situations and provide effective solutions; - Negotiation skill. **Preferential requirements** - Quality standards, processes, dynamics typical of an OEM car manufacturer; - Legislative/homologation/rating constraints; - Knowledge of component verification methods and procedures (eg. testing specifications); - Ability to disseminate and transfer methodology and know-how in his/her own project team and to the rest of the department teams. **Other information**: **Education**: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive Engineering or equivalent. **Language skills**: Fluent knowledge of written and spoken Italian and English are required. Knowledge of German would be appreciated. **Workplace**: Moncalieri (TO) and availability to travel (also frequently and over a long period of time). **Benefit**: continuous training (technical, soft and languages skills), company canteen, mobility services, health insurance, car leasing program, car pooling platform, smart working, flexible benefits, good work-life balance. - Italdesign is committed to create an inclusive, diverse and safe workplace, _ - and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer (L.903/77)._