Senior Operations Leader - Manufacturing & Lean Excellence

Danfoss GmbH; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Danfoss Climate Solutions, Grodzisk Mazowiecki site, is seeking a Senior Operations Manager, Manufacturing & Supply Chain to lead end-to-end operations for Poland footprint. You will drive safety, quality, and continuous improvement while developing people and teams.

This role requires strong leadership, change management, and the ability to translate strategy into operational results across manufacturing, planning, logistics, and quality.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience within a manufacturing environment and in operations or supply chain
• Strong people leadership skills; proven ability to develop leaders and teams
• Solid knowledge of manufacturing operations, quality standards, Lean, and operational excellence practices
• Experience tracking performance through operational and financial metrics (productivity, cost, inventory, service levels)

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing and supply chain operations to deliver safe, reliable, high-quality performance while meeting customer expectations
• Develop and coach leaders and teams to build capabilities and foster accountability
• Drive operational excellence initiatives using Lean and Danfoss Business System to improve productivity, quality, delivery and cost
• Partner with Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, HR, Procurement, and Commercial teams to support growth and new product introductions
• Guide operational transformation through process improvements, automation, digitalization, capacity planning, and manufacturing development initiatives

Skills

Leadership

People development

Lean principles

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Danfoss Climate Solutions, Grodzisk Mazowiecki site, is seeking a Senior Operations Manager, Manufacturing & Supply Chain to lead end-to-end operations for Poland footprint. You will drive safety, quality, and continuous improvement while developing people and teams.

This role requires strong leadership, change management, and the ability to translate strategy into operational results across manufacturing, planning, logistics, and quality.