TA/OLH - Staff of 'Product Projects'_Mitsubishi Fuso, Kawasaki
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus CorporationKanagawaUpdate time: November 11,2019
Job Description

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) is an integral part of Daimler Trucks, the world’s largest truck manufacturer. With our FUSO brand, we make up approximately 40% of the Daimler Trucks sales volume with a presence in more than 160 markets worldwide. Since our first bus, we have aspired to bring society and our customers the highest quality of products and services.
By Combining Japanese tradition and the global power of Daimler, Mitsubishi Fuso provides unparalleled experience in a world leading company. This means that you will associate with global business partners every single day.
 
Who we are
 
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation is a company who develops, designs, manufactures, sells and imports/exports trucks, buses, industrial engines and so on.
FUSO is an integral part of Daimler AG, one of the world’s most successful automotive companies. With its divisions for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and vans, Daimler trucks and buses, and financial services, the Daimler Group is a leading global vehicle manufacturer and the world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles with a global reach. FUSO serves as a center for the development of light-duty trucks and hybrid technologies. Together with BharatBenz, FUSO is a corporation that represents Daimler Trucks Asia.
Our products are helping to power economic growth in over 170 countries around the world. At the foundation of our success, you will find a diverse workforce of over 15,000 employees across Japan, India, the USA, Australia, South Africa, and other strategic locations, working together as Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation M FTBC in Japan and Daimler India Commercial Vehicles DICV in India, under the umbrella of Daimler Trucks Asia.
We are excited about the direction we are leading the Commercial Vehicle Industry from pioneering innovations of electrification, autonomous driving and digitization of our products into the future; to the way in which we embrace work/life balance, and support diverse career opportunities for our employees.
If you’re looking to make an impact on the Future of Transportation, Daimler Trucks Asia is the place for you!
 
Daimler Trucks Asia’s HDT (Heavy Duty Trucks) Opportunities
 
HDT trucks are one of the flagship product in Daimler Trucks Asia and we are leading all HDT product projects in FUSO. The product target of our product is benchmark position in the major customers buying criteria such as fuel consumption, active safety. In order to achieve the stretch targets, the state-of-art technologies need to be implemented prior to the competitors. The plans/developments are often proceeding with the global projects together with Daimler Truck Europe/America, and this helps us a lot to implement the new features earlier with utilizing the global resources and scale effects on the costs.
Even as of today, our HDT trucks are leading the Japanese market with bland new technologies, and well-accepted by the customers. We can see the potential to keep the market leader in the autonomous driving area, which is strongly demanded by the customers in upcoming days.

What you will do:
 
- Product project management: Our team brings forward all the HDT product projects. At the project kick-off, the transparent plan need to be recommended, and the targets are clearly identified. Afterwards, proceed the projects together with the line functions to secure the targets such as budget, timeline.


- Regular weekly/monthly report: Our team report the HDT project status regularly, and you will prepare the report with the managers.


- Regular project meeting: We have weekly project team meeting and you will 
create the minutes and support the meeting facilitation.


- Module team management: You will lead the several module teams as a 
representative from our team. You report the activities to your supervisor every week and to the project every 6 weeks together with module team leaders.
 Cross functional teams are necessary to accomplish the project tasks. The line functions in FUSO are structures their organization with the module level most of the case, not the product level, so that in order to invite the specialist in the line functions, 7 module team level cross functional teams are necessary.


- You will work together with a lot of members from almost all line functions. You will be a well-known employee in the short time.



What you should bring to the table


- University graduates or equivalent level in engineering field. 


- Basic knowledge of commercial vehicle or minimum passenger car.


- Project management skills are preferred.


- Office IT skill such as Microsoft office.


- Fluent Japanese level preferred and English communication would be mandatory. If English skill is at the appropriate level, the acceptance of lower levels of Japanese skill will be taken into consideration.


- Interest in future technology such as autonomous driving, and have a motivation to challenge the new features.
 
What you need to succeed:



- Basic skills in the commercial vehicle field.
- Motivation to work with a lot of/various members.


- U nderstand the pr oducts as earlier as possible.


- Learn the project management rules/tools in our company. (you can get the training)


- Spirits to tackle the new features with un-known challenges.


- Improve the commination skills both with Japanese members and English speaking members.


- Carefully hear the inputs from the members and understand quickly.

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