Chief Engineer– Automotive Lighting

Location Northville, USA

FORVIA HELLA is a listed, international automotive supplier. Coming together with Faurecia in the FORVIA Group, we build the world's seventh largest supplier of automotive technologies. As a global market leader in high-growth areas, FORVIA employs 157,000 people worldwide. FORVIA HELLA therein stands for high-performance lighting technology and automotive electronics. At the same time, we cover a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special vehicles with our Business Group Lifecycle Solutions. With around 37,500 employees at over 125 locations, the Company is active worldwide and generated adjusted sales of € 8.1 billion on a preliminary basis in the fiscal year 2023.

YOUR TASKS

FORVIA - HELLA is seeking a dynamic and experienced Lighting
Chief Engineer. The focus of this role will be to work with our OEM partners
and development teams to drive Mechanical, Optical, and electronic development
for our lamp programs.

About Us
FORVIA -
HELLA is a listed, internationally positioned automotive supplier operating
under the umbrella brand FORVIA. Within this factual group, HELLA stands for
high-performance lighting technology and automotive electronics. At the same
time, the Company covers a broad service and product portfolio for the spare
parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special-purpose
vehicles with its Lifecycle Solutions business group. HELLA has around 36,000
employees at more than 125 locations worldwide and generated sales of €4.4
billion in the seven-month short fiscal year 2022.

Daily
Responsibilities

• Evaluating technical customer product requirements
• Steering the creation of product system requirement
  specification based on the product use-cases
• Act as an intermediary between
  our OEM and product engineers to create alignment in a number of
  domains (subsystems, modules, definition and validation of interface
  specifications, requirements, system integration, and team collaboration
  agreements)
• Managing the product test strategy
  in alignment with system integration planning

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years experience conducting automotive lighting development
• Minimum of 3 fully designed lamps from RFQ to production
• Experience / knowledge in multiple lighting engineering areas (mechanical, optical, electronics)
• Experience working with OEMs at a high level for current program development
• Out of the box problem solving abilities

Why Forvia Hella?

• Hybrid work schedules and flexible core hours
• Industry leading health benefits program
• Lucrative PTO policy
• Competitive 401K matching
• Extensive career and training opportunities
• Annual Bonuses
• On campus restaurant as well as employee water and coffee services
• Team and company wide events
• And much more!

Please feel
free to apply if you do not meet 100% of the positional requirements. Forvia
Hella is dedicated to the development and future advancement of all our
employees.

Even if you do not meet all our requirements, do not hesitate to apply to us, because the further development of our employees is very important to us and opens up a wide range of opportunities for you in our company.

FORVIA HELLA stands for the variety of all employees. Inclusion and diversity are firmly anchored in our company culture. We are continuously looking for new team players and welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethical and social background, age, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or identity.

Please send us your application via our career portal, stating your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date, with the reference number req17202. 

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