How can we picture your work?
Together with my team, I am responsible for ensuring that everything runs smoothly in the production control and dispatch of our products - during ongoing operations and also in long-term planning. The four-cylinder engines, we produce here in Jawor, are used in many of our vehicles. Since last year, we have also been producing plug-in hybrid batteries for the C-, E- and S-Class here, and this year we will start the production of battery systems for our compact all-electric models EQA and EQB. Our drive systems are something like the heart of the vehicles. This makes it even more important that our components are available on time and in best quality at the plants where our vehicles are assembled, for example in Bremen or Rastatt, Germany.
How do you and your team ensure that the components arrive on time at the other Mercedes-Benz plants?
For this, close coordination with our process partners is important. We are constantly in contact with our colleagues from quality management, IT, production and the contact partners in our affiliated plants. A big advantage is that I also speak Polish - I often switch between German, English and Polish in my work, which makes a lot of things easier. What I love about my job is the proximity to our products. Our office is directly connected to the production and I can look through the window into our production hall.
So you are very close to the logistical processes when planning?
Exactly. Often we also walk around the factory and look at the processes directly on site. Recently, for example, we redesigned the storage area where the manufactured drive systems and components are temporarily stored for further transport. When we exchange ideas with our colleagues in production, there is often further potential for optimising our processes.
