Luca Spadotto

Main contact for automotive and hydraulic key accounts (technical/economical/quality inquiries) Strategic business development Customer relationship (‘one face to the customer’ approach) Benchmark analysis and search of best product/price mix together with technical/economical feasibility

Outsourced assigment at Tier One seats and trim manufacturer. Product development for best in class seat structures meeting strong weight reduction requirements through use of high strength steels, carbon fiber, aluminium and magnesium alloys. Currently tackling galvanic corrosion and production issues on ultra low weight alloys.

Sr. Product Engineer for Fiat Group for all newly introduced and newly developed fuel pipe systems and vapor canisters – only employee on the Italian territory (resident engineer), conveying all technical and quality issues.

Account Manager for all existing and new plant customers, from quotation to end of production: handling of current and new business, budget, contract, cost breakdown, change request and tooling management, plus critical projects management. Main company focus: design, development and production of high pressure die cast aluminum and magnesium components for automotive structural applications.

Key Account Manager of ‘expander’ product for South European and Swiss market automotive and hydraulic customers (including their worldwide locations). Tasks: strategic business development, analysis of market potential (both volume and turnover), customer relationship, benchmark analysis and search of best product/price mix together with technical/economical feasibility; coordination of job requests together with the alternative distributor channel; ‘one face to the customer’ approach

Technical and financial management of joint projects across Europe, NAFTA, Japan, from project specification up to the launch phase, testing and validation, coordination of the international team, suppliers auditing, reporting to the Management Board on both customer and internal sides. Trained in successful negotiation.

Technical and financial management of joint projects across Europe, NAFTA, Japan, from project specification up to the launch phase, testing and validation, coordination of the international team, suppliers auditing, reporting to the Management Board on both customer and internal sides. Trained in successful negotiation.

Project feasibility, design for prototyping, industrialisation; management of internal and external resources (concurrent engineering); other tasks: product benchmarking, patents and existing industrial knowledge investigation, tolerance analyses for vehicle Body in White, complete vehicle Digital Mock Up, management of the company know how about innovative materials (aluminium and magnesium alloys, high strength and composite materials), management of the sub-suppliers and customers' relationship

Customers’ relationship and suppliers’ management, management of internal and external resources (concurrent engineering), complete vehicle Digital Mock Up, CAD data management

Project Leader for mechanical automotive parts. Main tasks: concept Design, 3D modelling, FE analysis, design for prototyping and mass production using aluminium alloys, composite materials, steel.

Researcher for Automotive suspensions and embedded bearings using FEM and Multibody codes.