Italdesign is a service company providing design, engineering and production for the transportation industry, through to final testing and type-approval and support into starting of production and the design of complete Business models. Italdesign is based in Moncalieri, Torino, Italy and today has premises of more than 50.000 squared meters, a full-scale design and engineering campus and a cutting edge development and prototyping center. It has about 1000 employees in Italy, Germany, Spain, China and since February 2024 USA. Italdesign offers its services to all interested parties worldwide. In 2017 Italdesign launched as additional business, a dedicated unit to design, develop and produce ultra-limited vehicles for all OEMs Worldwide: Italdesign Automobili Speciali. Research and innovation has enabled a continuous growth, along with the ability to choose competent and motivated people, united by a real and concrete passion for excellence. People are able to compete every day with the complexity and competitiveness of the market, able to work in integrated teams, to express their creativity in every field, to give the best of themselves in any conditions. In 2024 Italdesign obtained the Top Employers Certification for the ninth consecutive year.

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Team Leader, who will be employed in the Exterior Mechatronic team of the Italian site of Italdesign. S/He will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.

Responsibilities

The role, focused on the coordination of a work team aimed at the development of Exterior Visibility Systems within a vehicle development project, requires at least 2 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.
  

Key requirements

• Knowledge of the Exterior Visibility Systems as a product as Glasses, Wipers, Washer systems (guide line, best practices, costs and time);
• Production technologies and tooling lead time (glasses, 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 and system 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

• Technical drawing and modeling (CAD processes, basic knowledge of Catia 5 and data release systems);
• 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.

Education: Master’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

Benefit: continuous training (technical, soft and languages skills), company canteen, health insurance, car leasing program, 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).