ILKER ONBASI

Experience

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  Ford Motor Company

  Jan 2012 - May 2016

  Product Development (Design and Release) Engineer

  Managed and delivered programs with over achievements: 2016 MY V363E Ford Transit Europe, 2016 MY V362 Transit Custom Europe, 2016MY V362C Transit Custom China. All of those projects awarded with International Commercial Vehicle of the Year Award.• Responsible for design, analysis, testing and development of the LCV - HCV components from concept phase to mass production.• Understanding and execution of product development process according to GPDS guidelines• Validation of design and production parts with help of the methodologies such as CAD, CAE, Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) and Design Validation Plans (DVPR)• Engineer and optimizing the parts design and features according to technical, financial and manufacturing feasibility.• Organizing sample production and giving on-site plant support for vehicle builds.• Leads problem solving and issue resolution in manufacturing plants and field, by making use of established problem-solving methodologies (8D, Six Sigma)• Reporting the status and risks of the projects. Show less

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  Bosch

  Jan 2020 - now

  Working in customer project team as responsible for management of customer requirements and ensuring on time start of production. Timeline planning of the project and preparing work breakdown structure. Coordination of development, sample production, mass production and quality activities. Ensuring the projects are on time, on budget, and within scope.• Being a technical responsible of the component between plants and customer through whole Product Development Phase.• Collaboration in a cross-functional team consisting of sales, research, development, manufacturing, quality department and international locations• Understand and assess the customer requirements in accordance with product specification document.• Building a work breakdown structure for project requirements and monitoring it to fulfill the deliverables on time (offer drawing, verification, and validation tests, DFMEA, risk assessment, technical documentation, etc.).• Ensuring all requirements, project plans, and changes to scope are managed and communicated to all affected team members.• Reporting the status of the projects periodically to the review committee and stakeholders.• Attending and organizing customer meetings and if necessary, on-site visits.• Ensuring the series delivery release criteria are fulfilled and approval can be granted. Show less Working as window person in development department between international commissions, ministry, and engineering teams in coordinating the research and public funded projects. Continuously tracking the R&D center budget and costs to fulfill the yearly target. • Preparing the R&D Center Yearly Activity report for Ministry of Republic of Turkey.• Coordinating the public funded projects (Horizon, Eureka, Teydeb etc.) in supporting research teams for various project activities.• Monitoring the status of research projects and ensuring all requirements to be achieved on time and within scope. • Understanding Intellectual Property Rights, helping to formulate and defending contracts of work and non-disclosure agreements.• Promote and liaise with universities to increase the collaboration.• Supporting the cost center owner to set a yearly budget by analysing actualized and foreseen expenses.• Reporting the R&D center budget overview periodically. Show less

  • R&D Project Manager

    May 2016 - now

  • R&D Center Coordinator

    Jan 2020 - Nov 2022