Production Supervisor (M/F/D)

Te Connectivity Ltd.; Viseu; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative and friendly work env

Extensive training and career growth

Employee referral bonus

Other location-dependent benefits

Job summary

TE Connectivity in Evora, Portugal, is seeking a Manufacturing Quality Leader to steer a high-impact team in e-mobility production. You will drive operational excellence, ensure quality, and support serial output targets in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead root-cause analyses with 8D and other quality tools, manage audits, develop documentation (FMEA, Control Plans), coach staff, and promote Lean practices to raise performance across processes and products.

Qualifications

• Graduate or engineering degree.
• First leadership experience.
• Quality-conscious and precise.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end customer complaint handling using FRB/8D methods and root cause analysis.
• Act as primary customer contact during escalations with clear, timely communications.
• Drive continuous quality improvements by analysing KPIs and leading improvement projects.
• Own and maintain quality documentation (FMEA, Control Plans, QIPs) and ensure knowledge transfer.
• Support production to achieve serial output targets and ensure process validation and efficiency.
• Lead continuous improvement and standardisation initiatives across processes and products.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with ME, QE, maintenance, and programming; participate in DRBFM reviews.
• Organize and lead customer audits and close audit actions.
• Manage and develop Manufacturing Quality team, coaching and Kaizen facilitation.
• Apply Lean principles (Gemba, LPA, 4DX) to drive accountability and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Quality improvement

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Quality tools

Reading technical drawings

Job description

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.

• 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.
• 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!

• Collaborative and friendly work environment
• Extensive training and career growth opportunities
• Employee referral bonus
• Other location-dependent benefits

Job Locations:

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.