What are the responsibilities and job description for the Launch Superintendent position at Adient?
Job Description
Job Summary
Drive seamless product launches by overseeing process, tooling, and requirement changes while championing continuous improvement to enhance quality, productivity, and compliance.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Launch Strategy & Execution
Software Proficiency
Avanzar San Antonio Facility
Job Summary
Drive seamless product launches by overseeing process, tooling, and requirement changes while championing continuous improvement to enhance quality, productivity, and compliance.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Launch Strategy & Execution
- Design and execute the Launch Glidepath, ensuring all milestones (e.g., timelines, deliverables) are achieved for successful product introduction.
- Proactively monitor glidepath progress, escalating risks to leadership and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Lead cross-functional Site Development Team (SDT) design and process reviews to align component quality and manufacturability with project goals.
- Integrate robust process controls (e.g., poke-yoke, FMEA, Control Plans) to safeguard critical product dimensions (SC/CC) during assembly/manufacturing.
- Resolve Launch Quality Rejects and customer concerns with urgency, ensuring root-cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.
- Enforce strict protocols to halt non-conforming product delivery until deficiencies are resolved.
- Partner with Production, Engineering, and Quality teams to align launch activities with cost, quality, and efficiency targets.
- Mobilize cross-disciplinary teams to address process gaps, prevent non-conformities, and implement preventive measures.
- Develop and track comprehensive training plans to equip employees with skills for new products/processes.
- Maintain detailed records of launch issues, resolutions, and process improvements for accountability and audits.
- Identify and document systemic product/process/quality issues, driving solutions to closure.
- Leverage data and stakeholder feedback to refine workflows and eliminate waste.
- Support the protection of the environment, personal safety, prevention of pollution and the continual improvement of the Environmental Management System.
- Providing leadership to Launch team in preventing accident and ensure compliance with OSHA and EPA/TCEQ standards. This includes: continuously monitor the workplace for hazardous environmental, health, and safety conditions.
- Ensure environmental, health and safety hazards are corrected, eliminated or guarded as related to Launch team
- Within scope of responsibilities assessing engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE on an on-going basis
- Assisting in the investigation of accidents.
- Having the authority to: Stop and prevent unsafe actions; stop the use of unsafe equipment and tools, stop work and/or have employees leave a work area
- Ability to participate in investigation of near misses and other environmental/safety-related incidents that have occurred
- Ensure that all department related incident reports are completed in a timely and accurate manner
Software Proficiency
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); MS Project proficiency preferred.
- Ability to create visual aids (e.g., charts, graphs, dashboards) to simplify complex data and communicate insights effectively.
- Solve complex mathematical problems using basic and advanced analytical methods.
- Perform data optimization and analysis to address challenges in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
- Translate datasets into visual charts/diagrams tailored to project needs.
- Interpret technical documents, including blueprints, safety protocols, and procedure manuals.
- Prepare clear, concise reports, correspondence, and routine documentation.
- Leverage data-driven insights to identify trends, optimize processes, and support decision-making.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment between technical analysis and operational goals.
- BSME, BSIE or Equivalent; 5 to 10 years manufacturing experience; 5 to 10 years product design experience and customer management.
Avanzar San Antonio Facility
