Assembly
Rosslyn
07.11.2025
Specialist: Technology Steering
Functional Definition:
- Resources Steering.
- Productivity Steering.
- Ergonomic assessment and Analysis Steering.
- Projects Technology Steering and Control.
- Low Costs Intelligent Automation Steering Assembly Logistics Synergies.
- Optimization of material flow that directly affects the assembly environment.
- T4 contractor management and optimization of service providers.
- Planning co-ordination and reporting of VPS activities.
- Assembly process optimization with PSP team, including lineside presentation optimization.
- System Maintenance and IT interface with regards to NAS, BVIS, DIVA, WARENET* and printers.
- Steering and Co-ordination of Time administration of Hourly Direct Labor and related management of shit changes when required.
Tasks:
- Secures the short, medium and long-term fulfilment of the production program, coordinates the necessary working-time models and flex modules with all relevant partners while assessing the appropriate business processes for appropriate working-time measures.
- Steers and monitors budget, headcount and annual investment requirements.
- Ensures the short, middle and long-term fulfilment of the production program; coordinates the necessary work-time models with all relevant partners, and evaluates the necessary working time instruments during for the relevant business processes.
- Coordinate the necessary working time models and flex modules with all relevant interface partners,
- Develops various operational concepts as a contribution of the plant in the planning process and checks vice-versa the feasibility of the planned projects in the plant. Shares the implementation experience from the plant back into the planning process.
- Ensures the function industrial engineering.
- Implements improvement measures and change projects for the serial production in the areas of efficiency.
- Steers ergonomics assessments and technical availability of the technology.
- Ensures the method competencies in the area of VPS.
Main Duties:
- Initiates, decides, controls and enforces all Headcount/Costs requirements and budgets for Direct Labour and Manufacturing Overheads.
- Set up monitor and manage Departmental Budgets both operationally and Project related.
- Set up personal developmental plans for Department team members.
- Ensure compliance of the team to the various business processes and IMS system requirements.
- Establishes Long Term Budgets (LUP, LIP).
- Establish Strategic targets regarding Loading, Costs and Productivity.
- Oversight of Line Balancing and Manpower planning.
- Establish Standard Time Analysis for all TVG’s.
- Establish Ergonomic Analysis for all TVG’s.
- Establish objectives, projects and plans to improve cost and labor productivity.
- Enforces all cost and labour productivity targets.
- Maintain Time Admin function for all Direct Hourly Labour.
- Maintain General Admin/Stationery function.
- Is on a day-by-day basis interactive in the Assembly Plant and neighboring departments to support primary targets (i.e. On time Delivery, Volume and budget, Quality).
- Control supply performance of internal and external suppliers of Assembly shop.
- Break down of the T-targets (linked to On Time Delivery, KOVP, volume targets, Budget and headcount) to the T-4, T-4x and T-4xx targets within the yearly target commitment process.
- Initiates, plans, direct and controls special projects to improve, control and monitor production related to: On time Delivery, through put Time, Rework activities, and Production volume losses.
- Directs and follows up on introduction of projects and systems, and ensures methods to maintain quality standards of reporting and management information systems.
- As part of his COC’s co-working has influence over the design of global company standards and best practice solutions in areas of productivity, Analysis Tools, and Ergonomics and low cost intelligent automation.
- Introduction of New systems in accordance with international norms with regards to Productivity control and visualization.
- Makes internal as well as external agreements about efficiency with process partners and projects across, Logistics, Painted Body, Finance, Purchasing and Quality.
- Initiates and manages strategic projects in order to optimize the work organization and methodic and the assembly process for the assembly technology.
- New Product Launches/Project Involving Line Balancing and Productivity and Headcount requirements.
- Resource Evaluation and Allocation under changing business requirements through local and international influences.
- Maintain and Improve standard of production facilities and environment.
- Ensure development of the role of Coach within the Assembly environment.
- Develop and Introduce low cost intelligent automation (LCIA) within the Assembly Environment and key support function in line with international trends within the group.
- Key support wrt FK Prop, and complete Direct headcount planning with the groups central planning functions (TP and TI) for introductions of new model launches.
- Implements and maintains SHEQ (ISO TS 16949, ISO 14000, 45001 and ISO 18000) requirements.
Description of Auxiliary Activities:
Supplementary tasks/projects as allocated from time to time by Section Manager:
- To support Company and Departmental objectives.
- To support internal and external team relationships.
- Checks that safety standards are met.
- Organizational development.
- Coach, coordinate and supervise.
- Support to HRC and Operational teams in plant ill health process.
- Plans, investigates and optimizes the introduction of new production methods.
- Benchmarks Flexibility targets, e.g. with Local and International Automotive Plants.
- Benchmarks LCIA solutions with International Automotive plants.
- Motivate Interfacing departments to support T4 improvement initiatives.
- Bring about transparency within T4 on Budget statuses.
- Transparency to Operational environment on of Costs associated to in plant Damages.
- Steering of other cores with respect to associated damages which impact assembly processes and motivate solution thereof to maintain higher levels of quality.
- Oversight of the DS&R process in plant.
Impact on innovations and changes:
- Actively participate, steer and mentor the Innovation and Digitalization CoC locally and Internationally within the BMW Group.
Education:
- Degree in Engineering / Business Economics or equivalent.
Work experience, Leadership experience:
- 4-5 years experience in Engineering, Business Planning and Project management.
- 4-5 years experience in Management/Production Information systems.
Additional skills: special skills / technical ability etc:
- 4-5 years knowledge of motor vehicles, mechanical/electrical/electronic state of the art technologies.
- 4-5 years knowledge in state of the art quality techniques and –tools.
- 4-5 years knowledge of engineering means and methods, artisan skills, communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
Closing date: 17 November 2025.
Specialist: Technology Steering
20251107
Automotive
Rosslyn
South Africa
Legal Entity:
BMW (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd.
Location:
Rosslyn
Job Field:
Assembly
Job Id:
173081
Publication Date:
07.11.2025
General
Full-time
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