Automotive supplier with 6 business groups, 150,000 employees across 40+ countries
FORVIA is a large-cap automotive parts and systems manufacturer formed from the combination of Faurecia and HELLA. The company operates 249 manufacturing and assembly sites alongside 78 R&D centers, employing 150,000+ people including 15,000+ engineers. The tech stack (SAP, CATIA, UG NX, Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch) reflects a hybrid industrial operation—enterprise resource planning for supply chain and manufacturing, CAD tools for product design, and emerging ML/data tooling for analytics. Current hiring is heavily skewed toward manufacturing and sales roles across distributed locations, while pain-point data reveals internal focus on supplier performance, cost control, and audit efficiency.
Notable leadership hires: Factory Head
FORVIA supplies powertrain, thermal, seating, lighting, and electronics systems to global OEMs. The company operates through 6 business groups spanning 24 product lines, backed by over 12,900 patents. Manufacturing footprint spans 40+ countries with major operations in France, Germany, China, Mexico, the United States, and other tier-1 automotive markets. Active projects center on compliance system buildout, facility management, OEM contract negotiations, and supply-chain optimization. The organization is large and matrixed, with significant manufacturing operations, growing compliance infrastructure, and ongoing post-merger integration work.
Enterprise systems include SAP, Salesforce, and EDI for supply-chain and CRM operations. Design and simulation tools: CATIA and UG NX. Analytics and ML: Python, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. Office productivity: Microsoft Office suite.
FORVIA is actively hiring across China, Mexico, Spain, Hungary, France, United States, Japan, Slovenia, Thailand, and India, with current focus on manufacturing and sales roles.
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