Plant Manager/ SEO (f/m/d)

Heytex Bramsche GmbH; Bramsche; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Heytex Bramsche GmbH, part of Freudenberg, seeks a proven manufacturing leader for the Bramsche site to drive performance across 200–300 employees. You will own strategic and operational leadership, focusing on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability while developing talent and sustaining a high-performance culture.

Key expectations include deep lean expertise, change management, and strong financial acumen (OPEX/CAPEX).

Qualifikationen

• Seasoned leader with hands-on manufacturing experience.
• Experience managing a plant, production site, or large production area and developing structures in a growing environment.
• Strong expertise in lean management, change processes, and operational excellence with understanding of OPEX/CAPEX.
• Decisive with clear shop-floor visibility, analytical, and able to create structure in growth.
• Integrative, appreciative leadership and ability to develop people and set clear commitments.
• Fluent in German and English (C1 in both languages).

Aufgaben

• Lead the textile-focused production site in Bramsche, guiding 200–300 employees.
• Ensure quality, delivery reliability, and cost efficiency for industrial customers.
• Oversee site leadership holistically—strategic and operational, focusing on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability.
• Drive site performance, achieving targets in delivery, cost, and efficiency.
• Lead the plant leadership team, develop talent, and foster a performance-driven culture.
• Ensure compliance across HSE, quality, and internal standards.
• Apply lean management, continuous improvement, and sustainable change processes to grow the site.
• Own OPEX and CAPEX budgets and allocate investments to develop the site.
• Interact confidently with internal stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and authorities.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Lean management

Strategic thinking

Change management

Analytical thinking

German-English bilingual

Jobbeschreibung

Working at Freudenberg

We will wow your world! Heytex Bramsche GmbH. Working at Freudenberg: "We will wow your world!" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 51,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments.

Responsibilities

• At our production site in Bramsche, you take full responsibility for leading a textile-focused manufacturing operation with 200–300 employees.
• You ensure the highest standards of quality, delivery reliability, and cost efficiency for industrial customers.
• Site leadership: You manage the production site holistically – strategically and operationally, with a clear focus on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability.
• Performance ownership: You continuously drive the site’s performance and ensure targets are achieved in delivery performance, cost, and efficiency.
• Leadership: You lead the plant leadership team both functionally and disciplinarily, develop talent, and foster a performance-driven, appreciative work culture.
• Compliance: In particular across HSE, quality, and compliance, you ensure adherence to all legal requirements and internal standards.
• Operational Excellence: You use lean management, continuous improvement, and sustainable change processes to further develop and grow the site.
• Budget responsibility: You take ownership of OPEX and CAPEX budgets and allocate investments strategically to further develop the site.
• Stakeholder management: As the key representative of the site, you interact confidently with internal stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and authorities.

Qualifications

• You are an experienced leader with several years of hands‑on experience in a manufacturing environment.
• You have already successfully managed a plant, production site, or larger production area and know how to further develop and professionalize structures in a growing environment.
• You bring solid expertise in lean management, change processes, and operational excellence, along with a strong understanding of business and financial drivers (e.g. OPEX / CAPEX).
• On a personal level, you stand out through decisiveness, strong visibility on the shop floor, analytical thinking, and the ability to create structure in a growing environment.
• With an integrative and appreciative leadership style, you know how to further develop an organization, support employees in their growth, and create clarity and commitment.
• You are also confident in an international environment and communicate fluently in both German and English (at least C1 level in both languages).

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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