A career at Ascorium
True to our motto, we’ve got you covered, we make sure that all the “Ascorians” are well taken care of by laying emphasis on the human side of human resources.
It’s an exciting business and Ascorium is at the cutting edge. It is also extremely multi-faceted and there is always room for enthusiasm and energy. This means that we can offer you opportunities to grow and develop in all our fields.
The following job openings are available
Europe
Product Engineer (Germany, Munich)
Job contents:
- Support with the introduction of development projects
- Support of the project administration in the preparation of enquiries, evaluation and placing of orders for products (material calculations, creation of product-specific boundary conditions for further enquiry processing)
- Collaboration in the definition of production concepts and processes
- Providing technical advice to customers in coordination with the CBU, Key Account and Project Manager for new projects
- Checking of technical customer specifications with regard to product-engineering-specific characteristics and their release
- Responsibility for the technical design, as well as its changes with corresponding documentation (change management) (design life cycle, target/actual analyses, manufacturability assessments, risk analyses, FMEA, design to manufacturing)
- Development of alternative concepts
- Lead development for series projects of more complex modules in the interior such as instrument panels and door trims including interface responsibility to adjacent components
- Management of the technical project team
- Control of CAD and CAX service providers
- Organisation, planning and autonomous execution of necessary technical test series internally and externally.
- Monitoring of development costs within the project
- Preparation of internal and external presentations of the developed results (customers, suppliers, project team, department team)
- Preparation of working documents
- Supervision of prototype parts
- Reflection of own technical designs and creation of “lessons learnt” studies and their communication within the department/project team.
- Increased travel activity
Requirements:
- Graduate engineer / technician in mechanical engineering / plastics technology / process engineering / chemical engineering.
- Extensive experience in the production and development of automotive interior parts as components and modules, preferably instrument panel and door trim (> 7 years)
- Experience in technical lead function of projects
- Sound technical knowledge regarding joining processes and assembly of individual components.
- Distinct factual willingness to communicate with the customer and distinct willingness to provide information within the project teams
- Good to very good MS-Office skills
- Product liability knowledge
- Basic knowledge of costing
- Experience in presenting, moderating and leading meetings
- A solid command of written and spoken English is a prerequisite; another foreign language is an advantage.
Qualitätsplaner (Germany, Wackersdorf)
Job contents:
- Kundenbetreuung inkl. Planung und Abstimmung von Problemanalysen
- Farb-, Glanz- und Hautdickenabstimmungen
- Messende Prüfung nach Qualitätsmerkmalen
- Erstbemusterung nach VDA 6.1 und ISO TS 16949
- Reklamationsbearbeitung
- Durchführung von Schulungen
- Analyse von Prozessen (z. B. MSA, PFU)
- Festlegung von Prüfabläufen und Methoden
- Abstimmung von Programmoptimierungen mit anderen Fachabteilungen
- Erstellung interner und externer Berichte und Präsentationen
- Erstellung von QM-Dokumenten nach VDA 6.1 und ISO/TS 16949
- Erstellung und Abstimmung von Referenzmustern intern und extern
- FMEA
- Erstellung 8 D Report
Requirements:
- Qualifizierter Facharbeiter
- Praktische Erfahrung Q Methoden
- abgeschlossene technische Berufsausbildung
- Systemauditor ISO/TS 16949
- Qualitätsassistent DGQ-QA
- Statistikkenntnisse
- Grundlagen der ISO/TS 16949 und QM-Systembewertung nach ISO/TS 16949
- Fachkenntnisse FMEA
- Bereitschaft Reisetätigkeit
- Produktkenntnisse
Asia
Senior/Chief Engineer Technical Center (China)
Job Purpose:
Act as an expert, leading the product engineering covering product& tooling design, supplier simultaneous engineering development and verification, design verification, testing and engineering release and development program management.
A main contributor to the transformation process of the company into an top class automotive interior supplier along the value chain, with its core DNA in PU based material. He/She is the process owner on external interfaces with customers and suppliers and the internal stakeholders like Technical Center and Sales likewise.
Job Responsibilities:
- Supports the technical bid evaluation and -coordination to ensures the timely and quality delivery for technical feasible concepts to the project bidding teams.
- On-site and off-site expert communication with customers during the design, pre-acquisition and quotation phase.
- Give active support and guidance to customers styling and engineering department for Ascorium features and solutions and identifies the customers product development milestones in line with the companies’ acquisition activities.
- Acts strongly on internal and external interfaces, to coordinate incoming technical requirements of the customers into technical work packages
- Deeper analysis for the CAS or STO inputs from customers, higher quality feedbacks to customers after reviewing and checking with supervisor. Receive, discuss, clarify and/or analyze customer needs and/or requirements.
- Elaboration and implementation of the concept and preliminary design, if necessary with alternative concepts
- Contributions of innovations with styling trends and new features for new product/business developments.
- Deliver coaching, training and development of the more junior technical talents and cross functions when need.
- Carry out risk and weak point analysis on the product design based on our own process capability.
- Elaboration of design library/templates, also for product maintenance and changes.
- Close communication and new product knowledge transferring from EU to CN.
- Other tasks assigned by Director TCC or GM China.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor degree or above in Design/Styling/Mechanics/Engineering/Automation or other related majors;
- 8 years+ working experience in CMF/Design and/or Product Engineering or related in Automotive Industry.
- Background in Chemical Material intensive products/companies and Automotive Interiors are a plus. Related good knowledge of PU material and moulding equipment, process, etc is preferred.
- Analytic thinking, experienced in using problem solving- & creativity techniques. Feeling for technical feasibility and implementation capability from concept to the sample.
- Technical flair in terms of customer-related and future-oriented design solutions.
- Good at 3D and styling design software like 3DsMAX, Solidworks, Maya, Catia and MS Office software (i.e. Word, PPT, Excel)
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment; can work under pressure.
- Business trip in domestic or overseas, short term accreditation in customer side when need.
- Excellent communication skill; Fluent English and Mandarin. Germany, Korean or Japanese language skill would be a plus.
Product Engineer (China)
Job Responsibilities:
- Participation in the preliminary acquisition meeting, deal with customer inputs and transfer to internal tasks,
- Innovative solutions, basic development of products and processes, keep CAD knowledge up to date
- Monitoring / compliance with the data management system, customer requirements and legal requirements
- Ensuring the necessary design work for concept of component development (quantity, time, quality)
- Clarification of the customer requirements with the component responsibility, if necessary
- Elaboration of the concept and preliminary developments, if necessary with alternative concepts
- Implementation of risk and weak point analysis on the product concept, technical feasibility study as output.
- Article construction including biding drawing creation with development tracking in assigned projects
- DFX knowledge (e.g. design for manufacture, assembly, value, …)
- Use of standardized components and purchased parts as much as possible based on data base, benchmarking and best practice, ensuring identical parts, as far as economically advantageous overall
- Ensuring and developing the expertise and construction methods (include advice, solution) in the bidding project
- Initiator for innovations in the concept / pre-development and series development phase
- Compliance with construction methodology, guidelines and principles according to customer specifications.
- Data and technical doc managements with cleared folders and data managements system (like PLM, PDM, …)
- Other tasks assigned by Direct Manager.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical/Vehicle Engineering or similar and 5 years+ relevant working experience in bidding design, working experience with international companies of Auto industry is preferred.
- First professional experience as a developer / designer, ideally the automotive supply industry is preferred
- Excellent technical communication skills to customers in Chinese and English
- Eager to explore new technical challenges and develop concepts from scratch.
- Excellent prioritization skills and problem solving capability.
- Good team player, initiative taking and good work spirit.
- Capability of multi-tasks handling and could work well under pressure.
- Good grasp of MS-office software(Excel, Word, PPT) and CAD(like Catia, UG) tools for concepts.
- With a business understanding of the interdependencies among process engineering, injecting, tooling and broader operations. Ensures the design and deployment of bidding concept guidelines.
Project Manager (China)
Job Purpose
Managing projects relating to cost, schedule and performance to ensure of the ultimate success and meet project targets defined by the customer and Ascorium.
Job Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the implementation of clearly defined project milestones and deliveries.
- Budget responsibility and cooperation in preparation of project documents.
- Interdisciplinary management of project team.
- Preparation and implementation of project plan and arrange regular project meetings including status evaluation, regular report and present to management.
- Price negotiations (in alignment with CBU/China Sales Manager) on series-production parts, moulds, start-up and development costs.
- Project technical device and customer service outputs in alignment with China Sales Manager/Representative, including acquisition.
- Responsible for change management and support to project administration in preparing enquiries, evaluation and order placing for products.
- Track the establishing of production concepts and processes (industrialization).
- Presentation of technical problems and co-operation in the process of looking for solutions.
- Organize feasibility verification of technical customer specifications and engineering related activities (ECN, VAVE, localization…) for both running and A-SOP projects.
- Other tasks required by Direct Manager.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial/Automation Engineering or relevant fields and 8 years+ experience of Project Management in Automotive industry.
- Good presentation skills for external & internal meetings with a technical & commercial focus.
- Good negotiation and coordination skills.
- Perfect problem-solving abilities.
- Very Good command of the English/ Chinese language.
- Very good knowledge of MS-Office.
- Good knowledge of Profit & Loss accounts, Working Capital, basis key financial parameters.
- Be good in organizing and time management.
- A good team player; able to work with confirmed target in a team.
- Capability of multi-tasks handling and able to work well under pressure.
- Willing to travel (Domestic and International).
Logistic Planning Engineer (China)
Job Purpose:
This role is responsible for the design, planning and optimization of in- and out-bound Logistics procedure and process, packaging design and improvement and product loading plan to deliver the expected customer service level at best possible cost.
Job Responsibilities:
- Calculation of the internal and external Logistics cost to support the acquisition and proceeding of new business and projects;
- Plan and optimization of Logistics procedures and process according to customer requirements and manufacturing concepts;
-Plan of material flow in the plants and its optimizations including the design of warehouse if required;
-Plan of Logistics equipment and packaging until final technical specification; - Project planning and tracking (cost, timing and quality) for logistic equipment and packaging until acceptance report;
- Coordination of planning and the realization with customers, plants and vendors (including supply chain agreement)until handover to the Operational Logistics;
- Procurement of Logistics equipment and packaging in coordination including technical specifications, vendor proposal and purchase requisition;
- Market analysis and development of new vendors;
- Identify cost saving potentials and make implementation on cost saving in running projects (new targets will be defined every year;
- Preparation of lessons learnt and know-how sharing with team members;
- Other tasks assigned by Direct Manager or General Manager.
Job Requirements:
- College or University degree, preferably in Supply Chain and/or Packaging or Industrial Engineering;
- With 5 years+ working experience in Logistics/Packaging management;
- With strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
- With deep knowledge of value stream engineering and lean production;
- Fluent English communication capability in written and speaking;
- Good skills on automatic office software such as Microsoft Office, CAD, etc.
- Strive for results and could work under pressure;
- Highly responsible and ownership taking;
- Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organization, and communication skills
- Willing to make business travels.
America
Sales Representative (Michigan, Auburn Hills)
Job contents:
- Generate leads within the RV market
- Maintain positive business relationships to ensure future sales
- Perform cost-benefit analyses of potential customers
- Negotiate all contracts with prospective clients
- Assist in developing pricing schedules for quotes
- Give sales presentations to a range of prospective clients
- Build strong network and relationships
- Using market research to get ideas for products that customers will want
- Helping to oversee the design and manufacture and planning how to market and promote the product to the public
- Defining product marketing communication objectives
- Comparing the company’s products to competitor’s products in order to assess competition in the market
- Gathers and analyzes market and competition research data
- Collaborates with internal teams to work on product requirements
- Creates and presents reports on findings, defects, improvements, statuses, and risk management
- Analyzes market and competition data to create products to match and surpass current industry standards
- Communicates product vision to the management team to obtain market share for the product
- Gathers customer feedback to further improve the product
- Conducts Custom Market Research
- Meets with customers regarding requirements and uses research-backed data to create products relevant to the market’s demands
Requirements:
- BS/MS degree in business administration/engineering or a related field
- Committed to continuous education through workshops, seminars and conferences
- Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organization
- Strong business sense and industry expertise
- Located in Indiana, US
- Strong knowledge of main Windows office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, …)
- Frequent domestic travel (mainly MidWest region)
- +3 years’ experience within the RV market is a strong plus
Designer Marina Market (Contract/Freelancer) Remote
Job Contents:
- Generate leads within the boating/yachting market
- Maintain positive business relationships to ensure future sales
- Perform cost-benefit analyses of potential customers
- Assist in developing pricing schedules for quotes
- Give sales presentations to a range of prospective clients
- Build strong network and relationships
- Using market research to get ideas for products that customers will want
- Helping to oversee the design and manufacture and planning how to market and promote the product to the public
- Defining product marketing communication objectives
- Comparing the company’s products to competitor’s products in order to assess competition in the market
- Gathers and analyses market and competition research data
- Collaborates with internal teams to work on product requirements
- Creates and presents reports on findings, defects, improvements, statuses, and risk management
- Analyses market and competition data to create products to match and surpass current industry standards
- Communicates product vision to the management team to obtain market share for the product
- Gathers customer feedback to further improve the product
- (Re-)design existing and new products, making these feasible for our products and technologies
Requirements:
- BS/MS degree in design or a related field
- Committed to continuous education through workshops, seminars and conferences
- Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organization
- Strong business sense and industry expertise
- Located in USA
- Strong knowledge of main Windows office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, …)
- Some domestic travel
- +10 years’ experience within the boating market is a strong plus
Maintenance Engineer-CompoLite (Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
Job contents:
- Ensure full implementation and maintenance of preventative maintenance system on the Canon line.
- Ensure that tasks are defined
- Ensure completion is followed
- Ensure entry of all work orders in CMMS completed
- Ensure procedures/work methods are followed
- Responding immediately to breakdowns of the Canon line and other lines as needed
- Direct maintenance staff as appropriate
- Be escalation point for complex tasks or inaction by staff
- Ensure adequate training for maintenance personnel on all production shifts
Asset control
- Ensure that spare parts are maintained for the Canon line.
- Planning equipment upgrades and machinery modifications for the Canon Line
- Assessing equipment from the perspective of reliability and need to replace in kind or with new technology or design.
- Procurement of new components for existing equipment, or replacing the entire set of machines after aprescribed d period of usage is complete.
- Manage maintenance budget as well as involved with budget allocation for future projects
- Master the body of knowledge for Canon Line
- Understand the difference between discreet and process manufacturing operations.
- Understand the operations of 24/7 liquid circulation and pressure, temperature, and flow rate pumping and
- temperature control.
- Understand the control systems and programming for complex on demand high pressure spraying systems.
- Understand the use of forced ventilation to achieve negative pressure environment for shop floor VOC controls.
- Understand the use of rail/brush powered track mounted carrier systems and the control systems to achieve
- alignment with robotic spraying systems.
QMS & HSEMS
- Follow applicable QMS and HSEMS guidelines/policies/ procedures/work instructions
- Identify and communicate to Management opportunities for improvements to quality and health, safety and environmental management systems.
- Participate in incident reporting process.
- Ensure “Safety First” culture within maintenance department
Requirements:
- BS degree in an Engineering or Management field relevant to Ascorium production process ; with 3+ years of maintenance experience
- PLC experience preferred.
- Microsoft Office (extensive Excel usage),
- MRP concepts
- Problem solving methods
- Must be organized
- Must be able to stratify, analyse, and interpret data
- Must be able to resolve problems through various problem solving methodologies.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
- Must be able to plan work for self and others
- Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental best practices a plus
Process Engineer - CompoLite (Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
Job contents:
- Develop robotic programs (ERA, Spray, Cutting, Auto Chamfer, etc.)
- Machining activities associated with secondary equipment/tooling
- Experimentation with various equipment settings to achieve improved results
- Coordinate personnel performing and/or perform chemical mixing, addition and color adjustments
- Coordinate hourly personnel performing robot programming
- Assist maintenance with robot recovery
- Day to day evaluation of issues and resolution to prevent reoccurrence
- Hold team meetings, and complete trial documentation
- Develop presentations
- Document changes
- Follow applicable guidelines/policies/procedures/work instructions.
- Identify and communicate to management opportunities for improvement to quality and environment
- Participate in incident reporting process
Requirements:
- BS in engineering and 3 years related experience
- Robotic programming Machining
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