Ipek Ereke

• Coordinated cross-functional investigations into product performance issues (customer returns), acting as the central point of contact between engineering, logistics, test labs, suppliers, and plants.
• Led root cause analysis workshops, documented findings, and ensured timely reporting and closure of corrective actions.
• Managed communication with plant production, supplier quality, and customer stakeholders, ensuring alignment on corrective measures and preventing reoccurrence.

Change Management Process – Program Management Lead

• Designed and implemented an Engineering Change Request tracking tool to give all stakeholders transparent visibility into change status, providing faster alignment and decision-making.
• Chaired weekly internal change planning and review meetings, translating technical modifications into clear production and scheduling impacts.
• Represented TREMEC in customer-facing approval meetings, ensuring design and process updates gained formal sign-off and minimizing delays.
• Supported improvement projects by standardizing templates and workflows, increasing efficiency and consistency across departments.

Subsystem Project Manager

• Directed cross-functional teams responsible for delivering subsystem components within budget, schedule, and compliance targets.
• Chaired weekly steering team reviews to monitor progress, resolve roadblocks, and ensure smooth project execution.
• Collaborated with purchasing to manage supplier lead times and costs, with logistics to secure material flow, and with quality to ensure parts met required specifications for production release.
• Ensured flawless bill of material (BOM) releases and part implementations, preventing scheduling disruptions and guaranteeing on-time production readiness.
• Supported cost-saving and process-improvement initiatives on assembly lines, achieving measurable efficiency and cost avoidance.

Teardown Process Lead

• Introduced the “Teardown Process” as part of prototype validation, defining step-by-step procedures, responsibilities, and approval requirements.
• Coordinated the scheduling of teardown activities with laboratories and engineering teams, ensuring timely completion and full traceability.
• Facilitated review sessions with engineers and customer teams, enabling knowledge-sharing and informed decision-making.
• Improved transparency and accountability in prototype handling by setting up tracking, storage, and reporting standards.

Project coordinator for Dual Clutch Transmission Project

• Coordinated prototype assembly, testing, inspection, and logistics to ensure timely product builds in Europe and overseas facilities.
• Maintained accurate parts availability tracking ahead of builds, preventing production interruptions.
• Oversaw daily progress reviews, escalating priority issues and resolving conflicts to keep work on schedule.
• Ensured 100% BOM compliance by closely monitoring part changes and updating relevant teams/customers for version control.
• Enhanced cross-functional efficiency by providing structured status dashboards on purchased parts, enabling proactive planning and decision-making.

Ford Trucks 2016 Model Year Program – Powertrain Project Manager

• Coordinated the powertrain production readiness across manufacturing, quality, homologation, and engineering teams, meeting cost, schedule, and compliance targets.
• Managed and followed up powertrain systems’ engineering and investment budget, developped risk management plan. Reported financial status to managers, directors and Chief Program Engineer.
• Acted as single point of contact between engineering, suppliers, and internal departments, ensuring end-to-end alignment.
• Oversaw part release and change control processes during launch, achieving production ramp-up without quality or scheduling issues.
• Supported prototype vehicle builds by planning part delivery schedules and ensuring readiness of production support systems.
• Represented the powertrain department at weekly program steering meetings, presenting progress, risks, and recovery plans directly to senior management.

Ecotorq Engine China Localization Program – Powertrain Project Manager

• Led change management and part release processes for localized and imported components, ensuring smooth integration into new production.
• Worked as liaison between Ford and Jiangling Motors engineers, coordinating all technical updates and approvals.
• Coordinated import/export logistics for parts supply to China, ensuring availability for prototype engine and vehicle builds on schedule.
• Developed contracts and procedures for serial production supply agreements, establishing sustainable ordering and delivery systems.
• Worked with test and validation teams to secure design verification, supporting compliance with local requirements.

• Analyzed implemented joining technologies by production of railway vehicles by Bombardier, investigating alternative technologies to optimize the production of wagon bodies.
• Performed static and dynamic strength tests for selected joining technologies.
• Delivered master’s thesis in collaboration with Bombardier focused on “Joining Technologies by Railway Vehicle Manufacturing”.