End of Life (EOL) Service Coordinator

Continental Structural Plastics

  • Auburn Hills, Michigan
  • 3 days ago

    Highlights

    Facilitate tooling transfer agreements with customers or third-party service suppliers when tooling must be relocated to support continued service production. Negotiate and execute service agreements with OEM customers, defining scope, pricing, lead times, and minimum order quantities for service parts.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationAuburn Hills, Michigan

    Description

    Teijin Automotive Technologies is an innovative and full-service Tier One supplier with a global presence and emphasis in development for lightweight technologies. Teijin Automotive offers employees the opportunity to join a leading edge company within the composite material industry and enjoy the benefits offered by a growing company in North America and internationally.

    Service Contract Management

    • Manage and administer service contracts for programs transitioning from production to the service phase, ensuring contractual obligations are met through EOL

    • Develop customer facing profitable pricing strategy and gain approval from the CSP Sales Director prior to approaching the customer

    • Negotiate and execute service agreements with OEM customers, defining scope, pricing, lead times, and minimum order quantities for service parts

    • Establish and maintain service program timelines aligned with customer end-of-production (EOP) and last-order-date (LOD) milestones

    • Monitor service contract performance, tracking delivery, quality, and cost metrics against commitments

    • Serve as the primary customer-facing point of contact for all EOL program inquiries and issue resolution

    One-Time Buy (OTB) Coordination

    • Evaluate programs for one-time buy (OTB) applicability, conducting demand forecasting and analysis to determine optimal buy quantities

    • Coordinate with customers to secure OTB commitments, purchase orders, and financial arrangements prior to tooling or line decommissioning

    • Work with Supply Chain and Procurement to execute OTB material purchases, ensuring adequate safety stock for service life projections

    • Manage finished goods and component inventory resulting from OTBs, partnering with warehouse operations on storage and fulfillment strategy

    • Track OTB inventory consumption and communicate depletion projections to customers in advance of stock-out risk

    Tooling Tracking & Disposition

    • Lead the disposition process for all production and service tooling at program EOL, including molds, fixtures, checking gauges, and assembly tooling

    • Coordinate tooling reviews with Engineering and Operations to determine the condition, ownership, and disposition path for each tool

    • Facilitate tooling transfer agreements with customers or third-party service suppliers when tooling must be relocated to support continued service production

    • Manage tooling storage, maintenance, and decommissioning decisions in alignment with customer contracts and company asset policies

    • Maintain accurate tooling registers and disposition records throughout the EOL process, ensuring traceability and compliance

    • Coordinate with Finance on tooling asset write-offs, customer-owned tooling returns, and cost recovery opportunities

    • Lead customer owned tooling audits

    Engineering & Operations Coordination

    • Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to assess and document service process requirements, including capacity needs, cycle times, and labor standards for low-volume service production

    • Coordinate with Operations on scheduling strategies for intermittent service orders, including periodic production run planning and line readiness requirements

    • Work with Process Engineering to maintain and archive service Bill of Process (BOP), control plans, and work instructions to support future service production events

    • Identify process simplification or outsourcing opportunities for service production that reduce internal burden while maintaining quality requirements

    • Ensure all engineering changes (ECNs) impacting service parts are evaluated, communicated, and implemented in the service program

    Cross-Functional Program Management

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