Martin Groß

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Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Germany

About

System Architect / Project Engineer in automotive lighting (>15 year experience) - Expert in project management for component development and industrialization in the automotive industry, including all project deliverables, e.g. cost, timing, mass, quality, BOM complexity, product requirement specifications (Lastenheft) - Coordination of project teams and the interfaces to internal and external partners - Expert in plastic component development, especially for aesthetic and designed components - Expert for component integration into existing packages - Legal Expert for exterior lighting compliance on ECE, CCC and US market - Expert in product cost estimating (successfull development and coding of a VBA-based cost engineering tool to estimate piece cost, investment and part mass) - Good communication skills and excellent team player - Good presentation skills with experience in senior and executive management level communication - Strong sense for simplyfing complex topics to be easily understandable - Strong interest and quick understanding of technology and production processes

Experience

  • System Architect Exterior Lighting at Lotus Tech Innovation Centre GmbH
    Oct 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

    - Serial development of Exterior Lighting components for Lotus Eletre and Emeya - Innovation project development - Standards and regulations for exterior lighting

  • Advanced Lighting at Geely Auto Technical (Deutschland) GmbH
    Dec 2019 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

    - Serial development of Exterior Lighting components for Lotus Eletre and Emeya - Company engineering standards development and definition

  • Opel (On-site)
    • Subsystem Architect
      May 2009 - Nov 2019 · 10 yrs 7 mos

      - Series pre-development for all exterior lighting components, including responsibility for cost, investment and mass target balancing - Development and coding of a VBA-based cost estimating tool - Interface position for communication between carline program, purchasing, finance, exterior design and engineering departments

    • Designing Engineer for Taillamps
      Dec 2005 - May 2009 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Responsible for math data system integration of taillamps and governance of supplier math data creation for the projects Astra, Zafira, Insignia and Meriva.

  • Opel (Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Germany)
    • Model-maker in exterior design deparment
      Jan 2001 - Sep 2001 · 9 mos

    • Vocational training as model maker
      Sep 1998 - Jan 2001 · 2 yrs 5 mos