The posting
Company Description
Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist. Founded in 1871, the company generated sales of €19.7 billion in 2025 and currently employs around 78,000 people in 54 countries and markets.
ContiTech is one of the world’s leading material experts for industry applications. The Continental group sector offers its customers reliable, safe and convenient industry and service solutions using a range of materials for off-highway applications, on rails and roads, in the air, under and above the ground, in industrial environments, for the food sector and the furniture industry. With about 20,000 employees (Status as of March 2026) at more than 60 sites globally, and sales of some 6.0 billion euros (2025), the global industrial partner is active with core branches in Asia, Europe and North and South America.
Job Description
As a Product and Process Industrialization Engineer for Business Area IEMEA, you'll be at the forefront of transforming innovative products into manufacturing reality. You'll establish and champion best-in-class industrialization processes that drive operational excellence across the region, while spearheading initiatives that deliver measurable cost savings, accelerate production efficiency, and elevate quality standards to new heights.
Key responsibilities and impact areas:
- Lead high-impact product ramp-up and process change initiatives orchestrating cross-functional teams, managing stakeholder alignment, and steering projects to successful commercialization of new raw materials and relocated production processes.
- Champion Process FMEA implementation ensuring robust risk mitigation and process reliability across all manufacturing operations.
- Drive transformational production process optimization initiatives that elevate quality, maximize efficiency, and enhance process capability through data-driven insights and collaborative partnerships with Manufacturing Engineering.
- Support product innovation and optimization efforts—including strategic raw material replacements—in close alignment with Product Development to unlock competitive advantages.
- Proactively resolve quality challenges and customer complaints, partnering with Quality teams to systematically reduce reject rates and strengthen customer satisfaction.
- Implement cutting-edge production processes tailored to product and customer requirements, where applicable for the Business Area.
- Mentor and develop PPI talent across plants through coaching, knowledge sharing, and cross-plant collaboration, building a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Monitor and report on industrialization performance metrics with strategic insight, tracking cost, lead time, and quality outcomes to drive accountability and identify optimization opportunities.
- Implement targeted performance improvement measures that deliver measurable results and strengthen industrialization capabilities.
- Lead regional rollout of product and process industrialization standards, ensuring consistency and best-practice adoption across the Business Area.
- Provide strategic feedback and innovation input to Sector functions, contributing to the evolution of industrialization standards, production parameters, control plans, work instructions, and enabling IT tools.
Qualifications
- University degree, preferably in mechanical/manufacturing engineering, chemistry or related discipline.
- 5 or more years of professional experience in various process engineering functions.
- Cross-functional experience e.g. in engineering, quality, production.
- Comprehensive experience in rubber and plastic production processes and ramp-up projects.
- Leadership or Project Management experience preferred.
- Experience in working with international teams on production topics and understanding of foreign cultures
- Proficient in English is mandatory
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- The 13th salary – Paid once a year, in December;
- Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;
- Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;
- Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;
- Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;
- Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;
- Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;
- System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);
- Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;
- Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;
- Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case-by-case basis);
- Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and, afterward from 2 to 2 years you’ll get one more extra day (the maximum you can achieve is 29);
- Transport from the Timisoara area – You can choose to come with the bus provided by the company if you’ll work from the plant location/office;
- Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
- Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.
