AME Project Engineer

About the Team

​Join a dynamic team where innovation meets impact! We're looking for a passionate AME Project Engineer to lead exciting new product launches, drive digital transformation, and shape the future of manufacturing. Enjoy a collaborative environment, global exposure and endless opportunities for growth, creativity and self-realization. If you're ready to make a difference and thrive in a fast-paced, high-tech setting with great benefits and career development, this is your chance! 

What you can look forward to as AME Project Engineer (m/f/d):

• Support plants in launching new product manufacturing through development of LLDs, layouts, prototypes, and equipment/tooling specifications in collaboration with quality, maintenance, and manufacturing teams.
• Lead machine qualification at supplier sites and plants, ensuring smooth handover to Manufacturing Engineers and plant teams.
• Prepare customer quote authorizations AMEs based on sales input and core AME data, covering capital, tooling, labor, capacity, timing, launch costs, and mechatronics.
• Collaborate with Central Core teams on DFM/DFA, lessons learned workshops, improvements, and validation of assumptions.
• Conduct risk assessments and industrialization planning for new products and processes, ensuring plant capacity aligns with production demand.
• Participate in equipment supplier selection, track machine builds with Plant Launch Managers, and support GDPEP and OLM gate revisions.
• Assist in manufacturing process handover by testing machines at full capacity and creating process blueprints and flowcharts.
• Support plants in achieving performance KPIs, addressing quality issues, and driving continuous improvements.
• Create Application PFMEA and Manufacturing Process Security Analysis (MPSA) based on core PFMEA and TARA methodologies.
• Support change management and Operations Launch Management (OLM) as lead AME at the plant level.
• Lead planning, testing, validation, implementation, and debugging of new product and production software alongside engineering and production teams.
• Drive implementation of the Digital Manufacturing Platform (DMP) as part of broader digitalization efforts.
• Provide industrialization support across regions as needed.

Your Profile as AME Project Engineer (m/f/d):

• ​Work experience in Automotive with Industrialization and Process Engineer background
• Strong manufacturing background (Lean/Continuous Improvement, PFMEA, MSA, TPM, Core Tools, etc.)
• Communication/networking/leadership skills
• Data-driven decision making

Why you should choose ZF in Nové Mesto nad Váhom?

• Summer and Christmas premium
• Transport allowance​
• Flexitime
• Home Office
• ​Paid day off for getting married
• ​Paid day off for the birth of a child
• ​Financial reward for work anniversaries
• ​Multisport cards
• ​Employee benefit program
• ​Employee discount program​