Project Engineer – Automotive Lighting

Expleo is a global engineering, technology, and consulting service provider that partners with leading organizations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses.
Expleo benefits from more than 50 years of experience developing complex products in automotive and aerospace, optimizing manufacturing processes, and ensuring the quality of information systems. Leveraging its deep sector knowledge and wide-ranging expertise in fields including AI engineering, digitalization, automation, cybersecurity and data science, the group’s mission is to fast-track innovation through each step of the value chain.
With a worldwide presence in 30 countries, our global footprint includes excellence centers around the world, including Romania since 1994.

• Manage engineering activities related to the automotive lighting perimeter.
• Ensure the achievement of project QCDP objectives: Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Performance.
• Coordinate lighting-system development throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate and support design engineers, ensuring technical alignment and timely completion of deliverables.
• Coordinate suppliers and monitor their technical progress, quality, and delivery performance.
• Act as the main interface between customers, engineering teams, suppliers, and other project stakeholders.
• Prepare and present technical topics requiring decisions during customer or project decision meetings.
• Take ownership of Quality Assurance activities for the assigned scope.
• Facilitate, track, and manage project activities using customer-specific tools, standards, and methodologies.
• Identify technical issues and project risks, define corrective actions, and follow them through to resolution.
• Monitor project milestones, deliverables, and engineering changes.
• Ensure that technical solutions meet customer requirements, automotive standards, and project targets.
• Provide clear and timely project-status reporting to relevant stakeholders.

• Technical knowledge of automotive lighting systems and components.
• Knowledge of exterior or interior automotive lighting development.
• Experience in automotive engineering or product-development projects.
• Understanding of QCDP principles and project-quality requirements.
• Ability to coordinate design engineers, suppliers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proactive and solution-oriented approach.
• Good organizational and prioritization skills.
• Ability to manage several technical topics simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

• Hybrid, 2 days per week at the office

• Benefit Platform
• Holiday Voucher
• Private medical insurance
• Performance bonus
• Easter and Christmas bonus
• Employee referral bonus
• Bookster subscription
• Work from home options depending on project