Production Supervisor (m/f/d)

TE Connectivity Ltd.; Évora; Presencial; EUR 42 000 - 62 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Unlimited contract opportunity

Career growth opportunities

Private medical healthcare

Employee referral bonus

Resumo da oferta

TE Connectivity in Évora, Portugal, seeks a Production Supervisor to lead a high‑impact team in our e‑mobility manufacturing site, driving quality, throughput and operational excellence. You will collaborate with ME, QE, maintenance and programming to optimise processes and sustain serial output targets.

The ideal candidate holds an engineering degree, has initial leadership experience, speaks English fluently, and applies Lean tools like Gemba and 4DX to improve KPIs.

Qualificações

• Education level: graduate or engineering degree.
• First leadership experience.
• Quality-conscious, precise and structured work.
• Ability to act as a project leader and knowledge of process approval tools (e.g., Kedas, Solaras).
• Strong communication skills and ability to motivate the team.

Responsabilidades

• Lead end-to-end customer complaint handling using FRB and 8D methodologies with root cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Act as primary customer contact during escalations.
• Drive continuous quality improvements by analysing KPIs (PPM, scrap, Pareto, CoPQ, SPC).
• Own and maintain quality documentation (FMEA, Control Plans, QIPs).
• Support production to achieve serial output targets and process validation.
• Lead continuous improvement and standardisation across processes and products.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with ME, QE, maintenance, and programming.
• Organise and lead customer audits and close audit actions.
• Manage and develop the Manufacturing Quality team, coach employees and run Kaizen events.
• Apply Lean principles (Gemba, LPA, 4DX) to drive accountability and performance.

Conhecimentos

Leadership

Quality tools

Communication

Teamwork

English fluency

Project leadership

Lean principles

Gemba

Technical drawing

Measurement techniques

Formação académica

Engineering degree

Ferramentas

Kedas

Solaras

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Production Supervisor (m/f/d)

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Description:

Why you should join

Lead a high-impact team in TE Connectivity’s growing e-mobility business, driving operational excellence, quality, and performance in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This is a unique opportunity to step into a leadership role with international exposure and shape the future of a transforming production site.

Your main tasks

• Managed end-to-end customer complaint handling using FRB and 8D methodologies, ensuring root cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurrence.

• Acted as primary customer contact during escalations, ensuring timely and effective communication.

• Drove continuous quality improvements by analysing KPIs (PPM, scrap, Pareto, CoPQ, SPC) and leading improvement projects.

• Owned and maintained quality documentation (FMEA, Control Plans, QIPs) and ensured knowledge transfer across product groups.

• Supported production to achieve serial output targets, ensuring process validation and efficiency.

• Led and coordinated continuous improvement and standardisation initiatives across processes and products.

• Collaborated cross-functionally (ME, QE, maintenance, programming) and contributed to DRBFM reviews.

• Organised and led customer audits, ensuring compliance and closure of audit actions.

• Managed and developed a Manufacturing Quality team, prioritising tasks, coaching employees, and facilitating Kaizen events.

• Applied Lean principles (Gemba, LPA, 4DX) to drive accountability, performance, and operational excellence.

Your ideal bakcground

• Education level: you have a graduate or engineering degree.

• You have a first leadership experience.

• You are quality-conscious and you work in a precise and structured way.

• Can act as a project leader.You have knowledge of process approval tools (e.g., Kedas, Solaras)

• You have strong communication skills and you can motivate your team and make people enthusiastic.

• Cooperation with your immediate colleagues is a must, so you are a team player.

• You can judge objectively and independently and you are positively assertive in your communication, at all levels.

• You like to work closely with your peers and customers and you can communicate fluently in English.

• You have experience with quality tools (PPSR, 8D, 3x5 why, Ishikawa, FMEA, CP, SPC, auditing, …)

• You have experience with measuring techniques and in reading a technical drawing.

• You work fluently with office and specific applications TECHS.

• You are flexible. If needed you are prepared to be present in various shifts for training and guiding employees.

• You are prepared to share your knowledge with others.

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ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/te-connectivity/) ,Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/teconnectivity/) ,WeChat, (http://www.te.com.cn/chn-zh/policies-agreements/wechat.html) Instagram andX (formerly Twitter). (https://twitter.com/TEConnectivity)

WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS:

We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!

• Unlimited job contract opportunity

• Collaborative and friendly work environment

• Extensive training and career growth opportunities

• Private medical healthcare package

• Employee referral bonus

• Other location-dependent benefits

Job Locations:

Herdade da Barba Rala, Rua Luis Adelino Fonseca

Evora, Évora 7005-345

Portugal

TE Connectivity and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and operating units (collectively, the "Company") is committed to providing a work environment that prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other characteristics protected by applicable law or regulation.