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 and Spain. 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 2020 Italdesign obtained the Top Employers Certification for the sixth consecutive year.

Italdesign is expanding its engineering activities in automotive Exterior and Interior Lighting field and is looking to hire a Lighting Project Team Leader to join our Lighting Team in Moncalieri.

Responsibilities:

• Give clear directions and instructions to both team members (including suppliers and different team components) and stakeholders to enable them carryout their project duties; clarify the duties, roles and functions of team members;
• Encourage contributions and input from team members and other key stakeholders on the project and acknowledge efforts made by team members and reward them accordingly;
• Give clear and unbiased assessment of the movement and nature of projects in relations to production cost and expenses;
• Determine the appropriate time to make advancement on projects and move on to further stages. Also, acknowledge when certain strategies aren’t effective and implement change of plans;
• Carryout constant evaluation and adjustment within a specific period of time to ensure that both internal and external factors do not suffer;
• Maintain direct and open interaction with managers to make sure all resources needed for the project are available and also consider the negotiation of amendments to project plans to achieve best offer;
• Interface on a regurlarly all the different stakeholders of the projects;
• Regularly interact and manage suppliers involved in the project checking compliance in terms of timing, performances, cost and validation.

Key requirements

• At least 3 years of experience;
• Strong background in Automotive Lighting;
• Experience with Automotive Electric&Electronics car architecture;
• Experience in requirements definition, derivation, construction and management;
• Experience about International Lighting Regulation.
• Strong communication skills;
• Strong negotiation skills;
• High level of autonomy;
• Exhibit good leadership skills by carrying everyone along without bias;
• Good crises management skills to handle pressure from project challenges.

Preferential requirements

• Business fluent written and spoken German would be appreciated;
• Be highly focused in order to stick to the objectives and goals of the company without giving in to undue distractions and challenges;
• Good temperament to deal with team members’ shortcomings;
• Exhibit good motivational skills to bring out the best in team members.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Physics or related subjects;

Language Skills: Fluent knowledge of written and spoken Italian and English (at least B2 level); knowledge of German would be appreciated (with willingness to improve);

Workplace: Moncalieri (TO) and availability to travel;

Benefit: continuous training (technical, soft and languages skills), company canteen, mobility services, 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).