Job Description:
Reporting Line:
- Reports to: Divisional Innovation Manager
- Division: Automotive Plastic Fasteners
- Member of the Innovation Team, Fasteners Division, EU Regional Account
Functional Relationships:
Internal:
- Quality and Laboratory Department
- Sales Department (Account Managers)
- Tool Design, Methods & Industrialization / Costing Department
External:
- Clients
- Director of Innovation Europe
Workplace:
Beauchamp (95), France
Objectives:
- Lead and manage projects assigned to the team (technical side) and ensure their successful execution
- Identify innovative products suited to our manufacturing methods and clients
- Design and develop new products according to Quality / Cost / Delivery (Q.C.D.) constraints
- Improve existing products
- Influence through technical choices and vision
- Be a technical “leader” and energize a team-oriented, results-driven environment
- Use an “outside-in” approach to identify opportunities and deliver innovative, differentiated solutions for fasteners and adjacent products
- Collaborate with external service providers, such as injection molding suppliers, 3D printing partners, and material suppliers, to support prototype development, feasibility studies, and production readiness.
Main Tasks:
- Ensure technical interface with clients
- Design and develop new products
- Propose and develop improvements to existing products based on internal or external client requests, within productivity frameworks
- Assist draftsmen and account managers
- Update and modify technical drawings
- Create technical documentation
- Create prototypes and demonstrators to support go to market
- Ensure functionality of developed products through test execution
- Comply with client specifications
- Meet deadlines (project schedule, action plans, etc.)
Required Qualities:
- Creativity
- Rigor, autonomy, analytical mindset
- Team spirit and communication (internal and external)
Working Hours:
- As per employment contract
- Executive status with fixed number of working days
- Based on 218 days/year under the current 35-hour agreement
Education / Skills / Knowledge Required:
- Technical Degree in Mechanical, Industrial or equivalent engineering.
- Proficiency in 3D CAD software CATIA (Siemens NX, or SolidWorks is a plus).
- Proven experience in plastic product design and injection molding
- Proven experience in product developing
- Fluent in English
- Understanding of automotive manufacturing process challenges is a plus
Confidentiality Clause:
The role requires strict confidentiality regarding all secrets and processes related to the manufacturing activities of ITW France, in accordance with the Quality instruction “Confidentiality.”
Languages & Technical Tools:
- French / English
- CAD, 3D printer
- Office software
