Lead Specialist, Exterior Lighting Center

What You'll Own

• Become the knowledge holder for a key commodity (headlamps or rearlamps), and ensure your products integrate cleanly with the vehicle's electrical and mechanical architecture.
• Work closely with Vehicle Architecture and Design to advise on the feasibility of design proposals, enabling viable concepts with class leading aesthetics.
• Build the integrated plan, manage gateways and the critical path, run risk reviews, and drive recovery when needed. Develop commodity timing plans that support AMPCS milestone actions.
• Maintain ClickUp / open issues lists, run daily and weekly triage, and provide concise status and go/no go calls.
• Translate styling and brand intent into DSR/SER, ICDs, BOM, and DVP&R, keeping requirements traceable through every iteration.
• Ensure DFM, optics and photometry targets, thermal paths, sealing/venting, EMC/ESD, and tolerance stacks are sound, and plan and assess simulation before committing to tooling.
• Manage Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, owning SOW/RFQ, design reviews and tooling kick offs. Manage the commodity CAD package through supplier reviews to ensure a robust virtual build process.
• Track tool design and T1/T2/T3 samples, mold flow actions, process windows, and readiness for DV/PV builds.
• Support UN/ECE, FMVSS, and GSO approvals; ensure correct type approval allocation and e mark / DOT / GSO markings and labels. Keep all designs compliant with relevant market legislation.
• Manage ECRs, deviations/concessions, and releases in PLM (Teamcenter/TLM), and produce supporting documentation, DFMEA, DVP, Engineering Release, Concern Resolution, and sign off reports.
• Support prototype, non saleable, saleable, and pre series builds, line trials, and work instructions, then hand over to plant and Aftersales. Investigate, contain, and resolve issues as they arise.
• Track technology trends and generate system proposals for future programmes. Support Purchasing in defining commodity strategy, and provide technical assistance to TVM, Current Vehicle Engineering, Purchasing, and Production throughout the product's life.