Production Supervisor (m/f/d)

TE Connectivity Ltd.; Évora; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited job contract

Collaborative work environment

Extensive training and career growth

Private medical healthcare package

Employee referral bonus

Location-dependent benefits

Job summary

TE Connectivity in Evora, Portugal is seeking a Production Supervisor (m/f/d) to lead a high-impact manufacturing team in the e-mobility sector. You will drive operational excellence, quality, and performance in a fast-paced site with international exposure.

You will manage end-to-end quality processes, mentor a Manufacturing Quality team, and collaborate with ME/QE/maintenance. Fluency in English and a structured, proactive approach are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Graduate or engineering degree.
• First leadership experience.
• Quality-conscious and precise, structured work style.
• Project leadership capability; knowledge of process approval tools (Kedas, Solaras).
• Strong communication and team motivation.
• Team player with collaborative approach.
• Fluent in English.
• Experience with quality tools (PPSR, 8D, 3x5 why, Ishikawa, FMEA, CP, SPC, auditing).
• Experience with measuring techniques and reading technical drawings.
• Proficient with office tools and TECHS applications.
• Willing to work across shifts for training.
• Willing to share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Organized 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.

Skills

Leadership experience

Quality mindset

English communication

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Kedas

Solaras

Job description

Production Supervisor (m/f/d)

Posting Start Date: 6/18/26

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.

• Organized 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

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD

TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.

Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.

Job Locations:

Herdade da Barba Rala, Rua Luis Adelino Fonseca

Evora, Évora 7005-345

Portugal

Posting City: Evora

Job Country: Portugal

Travel Required: 10% to 25%

Requisition ID: 153250

Workplace Type: Onsite

External Careers Page: Manufacturing

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.