Senior Production Manager — Lean HVAC Operations

Carrier; Guanajuato; Presencial; MXN 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Carrier is a global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions and seeks a Production Manager to plan, direct, and optimize HVAC manufacturing operations. You will lead production teams, balance labor, equipment, and materials, and drive continuous improvement to meet safety, quality, cost, and delivery objectives.

You will collaborate across Planning, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Warehouse, and Supply Chain to sustain production requirements, improve efficiency, and reduce waste

Formación

• 5+ years of experience in a Manufacturing or Production Manager role.
• Proven experience leading and developing production teams and people managers.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience in Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement.
• Experience applying Lean methodologies and tools such as Value Stream Mapping (VSM), 5S, Kaizen, and Toyota Production System principles.
• Experience across manufacturing-related functions such as Operations, Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, and Quality.
• Demonstrated experience improving manufacturing performance, including productivity, efficiency, scrap, rework, downtime, and production flow.

Responsabilidades

• Plan and oversee daily production activities to ensure production schedules, customer requirements, and delivery commitments are achieved.
• Lead and develop supervisors, production leaders, and operators while establishing clear objectives and promoting accountability, teamwork, and operational discipline.
• Optimize labor, equipment, materials, and production capacity through effective line balancing, resource allocation, and production planning.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks, downtime, scrap, rework, and other sources of waste to improve productivity and operational efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Partner with Quality to ensure products meet applicable specifications, drawings, procedures, work instructions, and established quality standards.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective actions to reduce defects, scrap, and rework, particularly across critical HVAC manufacturing processes such as welding, brazing, assembly, and testing.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with industrial safety, environmental, ergonomics, PPE, and machine safety requirements.
• Identify training and development needs, support succession planning, and develop high-potential talent within the production organization.
• Collaborate closely with Planning, Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Warehouse, and Supply Chain teams to support production requirements and material availability.
• Support new product introductions, engineering changes, capacity increases, line transfers, and manufacturing process changes.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate production KPIs and proactively identify risks that may impact production, quality, cost, or delivery.

Conocimientos

Lean Manufacturing

Continuous Improvement

Cross-functional leadership

Production planning

Line balancing

Problem-solving

Descripción del empleo

Carrier is a global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions and seeks a Production Manager to plan, direct, and optimize HVAC manufacturing operations. You will lead production teams, balance labor, equipment, and materials, and drive continuous improvement to meet safety, quality, cost, and delivery objectives.

You will collaborate across Planning, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Warehouse, and Supply Chain to sustain production requirements, improve efficiency, and reduce waste