Head of Production Engineering

Huber+Suhner; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 250,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly and annual bonus scheme

Co-financed sports packages (Medicover

Sports Packages)

Job summary

Huber+Suhner Polatis in Poland seeks a Head of Production Engineering to lead all engineering disciplines and deliver sustained performance.

You will guide automation, lean initiatives and production tests, working with R&D, Quality and global functions to resolve issues and scale capabilities for future growth.

Qualifications

• Technical higher education required in engineering or related field.
• Extensive production/manufacturing engineering leadership experience.
• Strong lean, Six Sigma and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional change with data-driven decisions.
• Fluent in Polish and English; strong stakeholder influence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with R&D to embed DfX principles into new product designs.
• Lead industrialisation and transfer of new products to volume production.
• Drive continuous improvement to boost yield, quality, cost and robustness.
• Define and execute automation roadmap to improve yield, throughput and capacity.
• Oversee development of production test solutions, including LabVIEW-based software.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Six Sigma

Leadership

Problem solving

Data driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Team development

Education

Technical higher education

Tools

LabVIEW

Job description

The Head of Production Engineeringprovides experienced leadership for all engineering disciplines in Poland, which enables production performance, future capacity and sustainable business growth. The role provides experienced leadership for all engineering disciplines and technical leadership to Production; R&D; Quality & Supply Chain Management in Poland along with other stakeholders. This ensures that technical priorities are understood, appropriately resourced and translated into practical solutions that enables production.

The role drives all elements of engineering in Huber & Suhner Polatis Polish facilities, Production Engineering including Process and Automation Engineering, Product Engineering, Lean and Maintenance. It works closely with the entire engineering function based across the UK and Poland. Providing leadership to resolve production engineering issues and delivering improvements in efficiency, quality, yield, cost, capacity and production output. The role also leads the cross-functional triage team, ensuring manufacturing issues are prioritised, investigated and resolved through structured problem solving. The successful candidate will be tasked with developing the manufacturing engineering capabilities within the organisation to ensure future success.

In line with HUBER+SUHNER’s Leadership Principles, the role requires strong navigator and coaching leadership, creating clarity of direction, empowering teams, fostering psychological safety, and acting entrepreneurially to drive sustainable performance.

Key tasks:

• Partner closely with R&D to embed Design for Excellence (DfX) principles into new product designs.
• Lead the industrialisation and transfer of new products into volume production.
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance yield, quality, cost and robustness of existing products.
• Define and execute the automation roadmap to improve yield, throughput and capacity.
• Introduce new automation technologies and optimise existing systems for scalable growth
• Oversee development and maintenance of production test solutions, including custom testLabVIEW‑based software, ensuring accuracy, repeatability and long‑term maintainability.
• Act as a key interface between Engineering, Operations, R&D, Quality and global functions.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams (product, electronic and mechanical) to triage production issues.
• Drive structured root‑cause analysis and corrective actions to reduce manufacturing time, cost and variability.
• Ensure high availability, reliability and safety of all production equipment, including automation systems and custom test infrastructure.
• Establish preventive and predictive maintenance strategies aligned with operational and business priorities.
• Champion lean methodologies across the business to embed continuous improvement, eliminate waste and strengthen operational performance.

Your profile

• Technical higher education
• Extensive experience in production or manufacturing engineering within high-volume, high technology environments.
• Significant experience in senior manufacturing or production engineering leadership roles.
• Track record of successfully introducing new technologies and processes in fastpaced environments.
• Strong understanding of process engineering, automation systems and maintenance best practices.
• Broad engineering knowledge across systems, electronic and mechanical engineering, including production test solutions.
• Solid practical experience with lean manufacturing, defect reduction and continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Six Sigma).
• Proven experience leading and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire, influence and align stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with hands‑on problem solving and data driven decision making.
• Fluent in Polish and English.

Why HUBER+SUHNER Polatis?

Our aim is to be the employer of choice and as such you can be assured of a market leading remuneration package that matches your skills and experience. Your employment and development is at the heart of our "Fundamentals". We have an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture within the business.

By joining HUBER+SUHNER Polatis, you will not only become part of a rapidly growing work environment, but you will also receive a competitive compensation package and enjoy a host of additional benefits that will help you and your family be healthy and live well:

• quarterly and annual bonus scheme
• co‑financed Sports Packages (Medicover Sport)

You will hear back from us as soon as possible. For further information please contact:
Agnieszka Nowak
[e-mail]