Senior Production Leader: Safety, Quality & Lean

Johnson Controls, Inc.; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Senior Production Manager to lead a manufacturing area in Ciudad de Mexico.

The role focuses on daily execution, team leadership, and disciplined performance across safety, quality, delivery, and productivity. As the Sr Production Manager you will oversee staffing, scheduling, line balance, scrap, rework, and continuous improvement activities, partnering with cross-functional teams to drive operational results and coach supervisors to raise accountability and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience leading production or manufacturing teams in fast-paced environments.
• Experience supervising Production Supervisors and managing multiple priorities.
• Strong background in safety, quality, scheduling, line balancing, staffing, and overtime control.
• Ability to interpret KPIs and financial results and turn them into actionable steps.
• Experience coordinating with cross-functional partners to solve operational issues and support production flow.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production area to meet safety, efficiency, profitability, and quality goals.
• Direct Production Supervisors and support personnel to deliver daily and weekly output targets.
• Manage scheduling, line balancing, build control, overtime, staffing, and production documentation.
• Review production and quality requirements, identify gaps, and drive timely corrective action.
• Monitor scrap, rework, and downtime, and drive improvements in throughput and cost performance.
• Support safety training and maintain a safe, healthy work environment.
• Partner with quality, maintenance, planning, and other functions to remove barriers to execution.
• Track KPIs and financial indicators, then implement actions that improve operational results.
• Coach and develop supervisors to strengthen accountability and problem solving.
• Promote standard work, housekeeping, and disciplined follow-up across the area.

Skills

Production leadership

Safety management

Quality management

Kaizen / continuous improvement

KPI & financial interpretation

Staffing & scheduling

Cross-functional collaboration

Coaching & development

Tools

JCMS

5S

Kaizen

Lean training

Formal problem solving

Job description

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Senior Production Manager to lead a manufacturing area in Ciudad de Mexico.

The role focuses on daily execution, team leadership, and disciplined performance across safety, quality, delivery, and productivity. As the Sr Production Manager you will oversee staffing, scheduling, line balance, scrap, rework, and continuous improvement activities, partnering with cross-functional teams to drive operational results and coach supervisors to raise accountability and