Program Lead Manager – Ambient Lighting

• Main interface between Fuerda RnD, production plant, logistic and sales in China and customer in Germany.
• Driving and leading the team through all milestones from RFI/FRQ until SOP.
• Update program open issues and drive the teams to closure on those issues.
• Meet Program Gates through complete project milestone.
• Giving internal advices for lighting development, simulations and mechanical concepts.
• Leading following ambient lighting products with RGB modules for different Audi carlines: instrument panel, front/rear door and first/second seat row product with curved light guides.

• Replacer for 4 months during parental leave of actual PM.
• Responsible for Porsche Cayenne battery system.
• Responsible of development tasks to achieve project milestones and goals of the project.
• Validation testing interpretation for mechanical assembly.
• Work close with all departments inside VW group.

In the Research & Development department:

• Management of product development for required functions (lighting design and mechanic).
• Ensure technological and technical process know-how transfer as well as quality, cost and deadline targets within the area of responsibility.
• Optimization of existing development process together with lighting design.
• Contact with client ( VW, Audi, Ford, Lamborghini) and tools manufacturer.
• Identify potential technical problems and implement timely corrective actions to ensure that commitments are reached and provide technical support to technical mechanical leader but also to the entire global network.
• Ensure support worldwide in TRW in development of the lighting surfaces using OptisWorks inside Solid Works.
• Development of lighting surfaces and light guides + LED/material choose.
• Single or multiconfiguration simulations in OptisWork, development of lighting components ( e.g. light guides, reflectors), LEDs creation in OptisWork based on supplier data sheets, material creation in OptisWork, ray trace in OptisWork, detectors creation, light leakage and colorimetry analyse etc.
• Projects: steering wheel switches (with or without touch pads), main light switches, sun roof switches, hazard warning lamp switches, console panel switch modules, mobile phone inside car with lighting rubber diffuse material, mirror lift switches etc – for Audi, VW, Ford, Lamborghini.

In the Design & Development department:

• Preliminary preparement of calculations for optical specifications and development with Helios and Lucid Shape Optical software data.
• Current calculation for optics evaluations, choose of right LEDs.
• Optics tolerances analyses.
• Establish and monitoring objectives with the product manager in terms of quality, costs and schedules.
• Constructive mechanical design solutions for devices, components and whole assemblies; Establish the design solutions based on CAD (Catia V5) provided by the client devices on the design, assembly, parts and surfaces, taking into account technical and economic aspects.
• Development of different automotive parts (beacons for mining, police, ambulance, construction; rear / head lamps for different OEM - VW, McLaren, Volvo, MAN, DAF, interior lamps for trucks, Day Time Running Lights, mirror signal lamp etc ).
• Tolerance analyses Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T).
• FMEA involvement (in terms of design) for the entire assembly, based on customer requirements (APIS tool).
• Development of Bill of Materials (BOM) in SAP/PDM environment.
• Continuous improvement, interpretation and implementation of relevant technical information received from the outside or inside, if necessary in agreement with superior (marketing department, customer).
• Organization data using SAP tools, PDM and Lotus.
• Preparations of different workflows for different orders using e - Procurement.
• Technical supporting of sales and marketing department.
• Proposals for improvements and consideration of measures needed on Environment and Safety.
• Design to cost activities in actual plant production.
• Old projects in bulb version upgraded with LEDs: quotation, concept and design release phase and follow up until 2 months in production.