Production Manager | NTS Location

Nts Group; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 58,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary €5,200–€6,400 gross/mo

27 vacation days + 13 ADV days

Personal development opportunities

Annual vitality budget €150 gross

Travel allowance / public transport

Excellent pension PME

Laptop & mobile phone

Fresh fruit at work

Job summary

NTS Eindhoven is seeking a Production Manager to lead the assembly within Advanced Analytics, guiding a 30–50 person team in a high‑tech environment including a cleanroom (ISO 6/7).

You translate production strategy into concrete goals, monitor KPIs, collaborate with engineering, sales, quality, and procurement, and ensure timely delivery while developing your leaders and assemblers.

Qualifications

• Requires completed technical HBO education (mechanical, mechatronics or industrial automation).
• Leads 30–50 employees through team leaders.
• Strong in lean, continuous improvement on the shop floor.

Responsibilities

• Organize daily assembly production and translate strategy into goals for team leaders.
• Manage KPIs, identify deviations, intervene to meet targets and delivery times.
• Monitor staffing and update personnel planning in the medium term.

Skills

Leadership experience

Team management (30–50)

Lean / continuous improvement

Operational excellence

Dutch & English proficiency

Education

Technical HBO education (mechanical engineering, mechatronics, or industrial automation)

Job description

"At NTS, we make it possible together. Technology inspires and drives us; it is our passion. Every day, we work on unique solutions for complex challenges. Whether it's ultra-complex or ultra-precise solutions, we are proud of what we do and what we deliver."

Do you want to discover together what is possible? Do you get energy from managing an assembly department where no day is the same, and do you naturally find the right balance between targets, quality, and your people? Are you the pragmatic leader who doesn't wait for the perfect solution but just ensures that it gets done on the floor? Then start as a Production Manager at NTS Eindhoven and let's make it possible together!

Job Description

As a Production Manager, you lead the assembly within our business unit Advanced Analytics, part of NTS Eindhoven - Mechatronics Assembly. Together with the other business unit Advanced Systems (semicon), we build advanced systems and modules for leading players in the semiconductor, analytical, and precision markets. Your assembly team converts parts into subassemblies and complete products of various and complex nature based on drawings, schematics, and bills of materials, where mechanics, mechatronics, and electronics come together. Most of the work takes place in our cleanroom (ISO 6 and 7), with assembly work also outside the cleanroom. Through your team leaders, you manage an assembly team of 30 to 50 employees. You translate the production strategy into concrete goals on the floor, continuously monitor the KPIs, and make adjustments where necessary. You report to the BU manager and work closely with engineering, sales, quality, and procurement. You also coordinate a lot with the Production Manager of the other BU Advanced Systems (semicon) to ensure we continue to deliver as one entity. You translate signals from the shop floor into well‑found improvement and investment proposals, which you further develop with these disciplines. You are a connecting and decisive leader who takes people along, dares to make decisions, and keeps an eye on the development of both your team leaders and your assemblers. You take responsibility and ownership for the production planning and the output of your department, and you deliver on your promises.

Your responsibilities also include:

• You organize the daily assembly production and translate the production strategy into clear goals for your team leaders
• You manage KPIs, identify deviations early, and intervene to achieve targets and delivery times
• You monitor the qualitative and quantitative staffing of your assembly team and ensure an up‑to‑date personnel planning in the medium term
• You analyze work in progress and continuously improve lead time, efficiency, ergonomics, and output inside and outside the cleanroom
• You work closely with engineering, sales, quality, and procurement and coordinate with the Production Manager of the other business unit Advanced Systems to solve departmental cross‑cutting issues
• You provide periodic management reports and analyze ERP data for forecasting and adjustments
• You coach, motivate, and develop your team leaders and assemblers, and conduct performance and appraisal interviews yourself

Requirements

• A completed technical HBO education, for example, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, or industrial automation
• Demonstrable leadership experience in a production or assembly environment, preferably within the high‑tech or precision engineering industry
• Experience in managing teams (30 to 50 employees) through team leaders
• Affinity with the assembly of complex products within mechanics, mechatronics, and electronics, and with working in a cleanroom environment (ISO 6 and 7)
• Knowledge of operational excellence, lean, and continuous improvement, and the ability to apply this concretely on the shop floor
• A pragmatic, connecting style where you take people along and make decisions
• Good command of the Dutch and English language, both written and spoken

Your benefits

At NTS, we combine our passion for technology with innovative solutions for complex challenges. You get the freedom and trust to fully utilize and develop your talents in a dynamic and energetic environment. We invest in both technology and you as a future colleague!

• Salary from €5,200.00 to €6,400.00 gross per month, depending on experience and qualifications
• Over 40 days off: 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days with a full‑time employment
• Personal development and growth opportunities, for example, through training and education
• Annual budget of €150 gross, freely available, for vitality, bike plan, or gym via the Alleo app
• Travel allowance of €0.21 per kilometer (max. 50 km one way) or full reimbursement of public transport costs
• Excellent pension scheme via PME
• Laptop and mobile phone
• Free fresh fruit at work

About NTS

We provide unique solutions for complex challenges and drive the technological progress of our customers. By combining development, production, and assembly, we play an integral role in bringing together the supply chain. We combine the best skills and smartest ideas into a working system for the most advanced Semiconductor, Opto‑Mechatronic, and Analytical solutions in the world. That is why we have grown into a Tier‑1 supplier for OEMs and an international player operating from various locations in Europe, Asia, and the US. Although we offer our teams a great workplace all over the world, we do not forget to remain firmly rooted locally. Ultimately, the core of NTS is formed by our people. Their excellent craftsmanship, customer‑oriented mentality, and clear technical solutions have made NTS what it is today. Together, we create a culture that everyone can be proud of because we make it possible together. That is why we seize every opportunity to celebrate our people, our craftsmanship, and our successes.