Wolfgang Maluche came to Volkswagen’s Chattanooga operations from Germany a little more than two years ago to gain more international experience.
“I wanted to further my career,” Maluche says. “After 16 years at Audi headquarters in Ingolstadt (Germany), it was time to see more of the world and more of Volkswagen Group. One thing led to another and I was happy to have the chance to make a career step.”
After serving as a technical project manager at the Volkswagen Engineering and Planning Center adjacent to the automaker’s Chattanooga production plant, he was named vice president of engineering and heads the facility.
The center employs about 100 people supporting the plant from an engineering standpoint, the 44-year-old engineer says.
“We’re the first line of contact” in helping keep production running at the assembly plant that builds the Passat sedan and Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport SUVs, he says.