Manufacturing Engineer BA IEMEA

Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist. Founded in 1871, the company generated sales of €19.7 billion in 2025 and currently employs around 78,000 people in 54 countries and markets.

ContiTech is one of the world’s leading material experts for industry applications. The Continental group sector offers its customers reliable, safe and convenient industry and service solutions using a range of materials for off-highway applications, on rails and roads, in the air, under and above the ground, in industrial environments, for the food sector and the furniture industry. With about 20,000 employees (Status as of March 2026) at more than 60 sites globally, and sales of some 6.0 billion euros (2025), the global industrial partner is active with core branches in Asia, Europe and North and South America.  

As part of BA IEMEA's Manufacturing Process and Equipment Engineering team(MPE), you will plan, coordinate and track BA driven Manufacturing Engineering activities (e.g. investment projects, performance improvement and cost saving initiatives) in order to meet the defined MPE and Operations targets. Furthermore, this role strongly supports the execution of strategic manufacturing projects according to the defined BA investment budget.

Main responsibilities: 

• Ensure implementation of investments based on BA specific strategy, in strong collaboration with the assigned plants
• Support the preparation of the investment budget, spending forecasts and follow up
• Guidance for the approval of specifications / eCR for investments for production equipment 
• Support the priorization of projects by utilizing business cases and using financial criteria (e.g. IRR, ROCE) 
• Ensure implementation of investments based on BA specific strategy, in strong collaboration with the assigned plants
• Support the preparation of the investment budget, spending forecasts and follow up
• Guidance for the approval of specifications / eCR for investments for production equipment 
• Support the priorization of projects by utilizing business cases and using financial criteria (e.g. IRR, ROCE) 
• When applicable define and maintain BA equipment standards for a specific area of responsibility and support plants in implementation
• Ensure implementation of Sector M&E standards related with production equipment and systems for a specific area of responsibility
• Ensure implementation of CT standards for installation, start-up, validation, handover and improvement of all production and SC (i.e. intralogistics) equipment
• Drive feedback process for continuous development of standards in aligned with Sector M&E
• Support the continuous qualification of manufacturing engineering employees in the plants
• Drive operational production equipment performance monitoring and reporting

• University degree in electrical/mechanical/manufacturing engineering or similar
• 3 or more years of professional experience in various manufacturing engineering functions
• Cross-functional experience e.g. in engineering, quality, production or CBS preferred
• Comprehensive experience in project management
• Experience in rubber and plastic production processes preferred
• Experience in a leadership position, in a technical team with functional and disciplinary responsibility for other individuals preferred
• Experience in working with international teams on production topics and understanding of foreign cultures
• Proficient in English language is mandatory