1. Management: The management, motivation and development of staff using target agreements and performance appraisals, founded on our mission statement and corporate values, and provision of purposeful internal communications in order to achieve the agreed objectives. Ensuring that the necessary training appropriate to the needs of individual employees and the tasks assigned to them is provided. Informing subordinated employees about the relevant provisions and instructing them to comply with the provisions. Ensuring that they are implemented properly.

2. Strategy and management: Assist with developing a strategy for the overarching organizational unit and, building on this, develop and agree strategies for implementation, advance your own role and ensure implementation. Steer your own role on the basis of targets and key performance indicators and safeguard reporting capacity in partnership with the functional areas.

3. Planning and Controlling: Plan, agree and manage the budget and headcount in accordance with key performance indicators. Monitor compliance with budget targets, introduce and supervise cost-cutting measures where necessary, in liaison with the line manager, and develop an awareness of costs among staff.

4. Supplier management: Support the suppliers with the use of preventive quality methods, process capability and supplier production process to ensure a high part quality and a permanent improvement of supplier performance. To make proposal for modification in the process (CIP) and also work at the implementation for this modification with all parties.
5. Supplier development: Manage interdisciplinary teams of different divisions (i.e. procurement, development, logistic, production, quality partner in other plants) at task forces which ensure the degree of maturity and process capability at the supplier and his supply chain (2nd/3rd-tier)

6. Degree of maturity for assigned parts, modules and components: Evaluation of design concepts and new developments in view of quality aspects and productibility. Define quality targets in the content with the module strategy. Cooperate with functional and module groups. Arrange and monitor the issue of process specification. Check and approve the quality aspects of components specification, if necessary correct the specification. Agree the audit requirement planning with procurement, development, logistic, material engineering and so on. Operate audits and process approvals at the supplier, evaluate the results and communicate recommendation. Cooperate in supplier selection and supplier evaluation. Operate potential analysis for supplier agreements. Ensure all measures to safeguard the degree of maturity of all assigned parts.

7. Initial sampling: Coordinate and monitor the (internal) process of sampling at startup from new types and series projects. Fix and ensure quality requirements and testing procedure with suppliers. Estimate development specification for the assigned parts and initiate and monitor constructive secured changes if problems occur. Ensure creation of test reports and take responsibility for the release.
8. Documentation: Ensure that documentation, filing and archiving meet the current quality standards.
9. Handling of complaint intern and at suppliers: Ensure handling of complaints, intern and at suppliers, in startup from new type and series projects. Define measures for sustainable troubleshooting with the involved parties and monitor the implementation of these measures. If necessary, set target agreements with the suppliers and monitor them. Ensure review of processes, internal and at suppliers, by means of process audits.
Quality data reporting: Summarize and prepare the information of quality data from the own team. In agreement with other teams, divisions, etc. ensure availability of information for reports to other divisions and plants. Ensure that specialized information is collected (i.e. from Development, Procurement, Production, Sales and Logistics), processed and updated.