Product Industrialization Engineer / Product Owner Industrialization Automotive

Project overview

For our client in the automotive industry, we are currently looking for an experienced Product Industrialization Engineer / Product Owner Industrialization with a focus on interior components.

As part of a series ramp-up project, you will take overall technical responsibility for selected interior components from design release to successful industrialization. You will coordinate the interfaces between development, purchasing, sales, process optimization, and operations, ensuring the timely achievement of quality, cost, and production targets. The focus is on the series-ready implementation of complex components in the vehicle interior.

Responsibilities

• Overall technical responsibility for product functions and components from design release to series production start
• Specification and management of requirements, as well as coordination of verification, validation, and product releases
• Creation and evaluation of DFMEA, test concepts, release criteria, and test documentation
• Management of suppliers, prototype construction, as well as support during production ramp-ups and machine acceptance
• Implementation of cost, quality, and process optimizations, including risk and change management (ECR/ECN)

Requirements

• Experience in the technical management of interdisciplinary project teams along the entire product creation chain
• Several years of experience in product development, industrialization, and series ramp-ups in the automotive or mechanical engineering environment
• Demonstrable experience with interior components (IP, center console, door trim)
• Very good knowledge of DFM, FMEA, test planning, and confident use of CATIA V5
• Fluent German and English skills, as well as experience in supplier management

Nice to have

• Knowledge of lamination technology, injection molding, and joining technology
• Experience with test automation and measurement technology
• Agile product development processes
• Experience in series production

Project details

ASAP

Initially until the end of the year (with option for extension)

Full-time, 5 days/week

Approx. 90% on-site in the greater Stuttgart area, rest remote (occasional travel within Germany or to Great Britain is possible in this project)

• Start: 28.09.2026
• Duration: 3 Monate
• Location: Bad Urach, DE
• Languages: German