Summary: ZF is seeking a Packaging Chief to join their team, responsible for ensuring compliance with customer packaging requirements, coordinating trials, and managing departmental KPIs. Highlights: 1. Shape the future of mobility with a global leader in automotive technology 2. Ensure compliance with customer packaging requirements and manage KPIs 3. Lead packaging initiatives within the automotive industry **Become our next FutureStarter** --------------------------------- Are you ready to make an impact? ZF is looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a FutureStarter, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of mobility. Join us and be part of something extraordinary! **Packaging Chief** =================== Country/Region: MX Location: Santa Rosa Jauregui, Querétaro, MX, 76220 Req ID 86458 \| Frenos \- Santa Rosa de Jauregui, Mexico, Frenos y Mecanismos, S. de R.L. de C.V. **Job Description** ------------------- **About the team:** ZF is a global leader in driveline and chassis technology. Whether it is a passenger car or commercial vehicle – the chassis plays a central role in safety, comfort and dynamics. ZF not only develops the essential components such as steering, braking or damping systems, the group also links all systems on board which are involved in longitudinal, lateral or vertical acceleration. This ensures a pleasantly relaxed driving experience without rough strokes – no matter whether occupants drive for themselves or are being driven autonomously. We are looking to hire a Packaging Chief to join our team at Santa Rosa, Querétaro. **What you can look forward as Packaging Chief:** * **Ensure compliance with customer packaging requirements**, preventing claims and penalties, and developing proposals in accordance with customer specifications. * **Update, document, and approve packaging standards in customer portals**, including change implementation and prototype management. * **Coordinate packaging trials with suppliers**, ensuring project timing and the review/approval of SPAR (internal handling document for packaging release). * **Monitor daily shipments and resolve packaging\-related reports issued by customers**, managing internal HIE (Packaging Specification Document). * **Manage departmental KPIs, personnel succession planning, and fleet calculations** to determine packaging quantities per process. * **Follow up on purchase requisitions, manage budgets for CEA projects** (internal system for part numbers), and perform packaging calculations for volume increases. * **Supervise inventories in customer portals**, coverage plans aligned with the MPS, and material supply to production lines. * **Define Kanban minimum and maximum levels** and ensure order, cleanliness, and control of part volume in the packaging area. . **Your profile as Packaging Chief:** * Relevant Engineering degree * 4 years of experience in Packaging Engineering within the automotive industry * Knowledge of customer portals (Ford, GM, Stellantis) and willingness to travel * Advanced conversational English * Preferred experience with SAP or QAD * Leadership experience managing teams **Why to choose ZF at Santa Rosa?:** * Benefits above the law Be part of our ZF team as Packaging Chief and apply now! **What does DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) mean for ZF as a company?** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- At ZF, we continuously strive to build and maintain a culture where inclusiveness is lived and diversity is valued. We actively seek ways to remove barriers so that all our employees can rise to their full potential. We aim to embed this vision in our legacy through how we operate and build our products as we shape the future of mobility. Find out how we work at ZF: **Job Segment:** Engineer, ERP, SAP, Supply, Engineering, Operations, Technology, Automotive