Lead Supervisor 1

MAHLE Thermal and Filter Systems Dayton; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

MAHLE Dayton is seeking an experienced Production Manager to lead the Dayton PTC production area, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time delivery while directing daily activities, scheduling and staffing. You will drive continuous improvement, optimize resources, and communicate with upper management on production issues, while mentoring staff and maintaining a compliant, productive work environment.

This role emphasizes lean manufacturing, problem solving, and collaboration with cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Engineering, or related field.
• 10 years of experience in a Manufacturing Production or Product-management role.
• Strong leadership, decision making, teamwork and organizational skills.
• Good people management, problem-solving abilities, and conflict management.
• Good English communication.
• Good experience with SAP (preferable).
• Computer literacy especially in MS Office or Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead production team in daily activities including safety, KPI's, quality, scheduling and continuous improvement.
• Ensure all safety and health standards are met to keep an organization accident-free.
• Motivate, support, and provide guidance to production staff.
• Communicate regularly with upper management regarding problems or issues impacting production.
• Manage production schedule for on-time completion, shipping schedule for on-time delivery.
• Establish a balance between increased productivity and reduced costs of manufacturing operations.
• Evaluate machine resources to ensure continued production and minimal downtime.
• Develop workflow policies and procedures that improve efficiency without compromising safety or quality.
• Identify and address key concerns that may alter or impact production schedule.
• Ensure integrity of personnel in Dayton PTC department and promote safe environment.
• Ensure quality of product on production lines under responsibility, including resources.
• Ensure compliance with customer indicators (PPMs < 4) and on-time shipments.
• Manage raw material inventory and meet customer demand and scheduling.
• Lead problem solving for process, machinery, or production issues.
• Train new employees timely and review preventive maintenance programs.
• Promote improvement ideas and participate in retention initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Decision making

Teamwork

Organizational skills

People management

Problem solving

Conflict management

English communication

SAP

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or related field

Tools

SAP

MS Office

Job description

Responsibilities

• You are responsible to lead your production team in daily activities including safety, KPI's, quality, scheduling and continuous improvement.
• Ensuring all safety and health standards are met to keep an organization accident-free.
• Motivating, supporting, and providing guidance to production staff.
• Communicating regularly with upper management regarding problems or issues impacting production.
• Manage production schedule for on-time completion, shipping schedule for on-time delivery.
• Establishing a balance between increased productivity and reduced costs of manufacturing operations.
• Evaluating machine resources to ensure continued production and minimal downtime.
• Ensuring all safety and health standards are met to keep an organization accident-free.
• Motivating, supporting, and providing guidance to production staff.
• Communicating regularly with upper management regarding problems or issues impacting production.
• Developing workflow policies and procedures that improve efficiency without compromising safety or quality.
• Identify and address key concerns that may alter or impact production schedule.
• Responsible for ensuring the integrity of the personnel who work in the productive areas of Dayton PTC department, including their own integrity (physical, emotional and health), Promotes the stability of the work environment and guarantees the safety of people and equipment in Dayton facility.
• Ensuring the quality of the product of the production lines under responsibility, talent management, time, material, and machinery resources to make it happen.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with customer indicators (PPM's < 4).
• Responsible for ensuring customer shipments on time.
• Responsible for managing raw material inventory (availability), meeting customer demand and scheduling production and delivering the product on time.
• Lead team in problem solving (process, machinery, or production problems).
• Ensuring new employees are trained on timely manner.
• Review and suggest improvement to the Preventive maintenance programs of the equipment.
• Promote and facilitate new improvement ideas program to all employees.
• Support and participate on initiatives to retention programs organized by Human Resources.
• Lead Shopfloor management meetings with the direct reports, addressing any deviation from standard / budget for (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Costs).
• Support to new launches (trials, customer runs and first off builds thru serial production).

Your Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Industrial, Engineering, or related fields
• 10 years of experience in a Manufacturing Production or Product-management role.
• Strong leadership, decision making, teamwork and organizational skills
• Good people management, problem-solving abilities, and conflict management.
• Good English communication
• Good experience with SAP (preferable)
• Computer literacy especially in MS office of Excel

We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with ongoing personal & career development opportunities.

#DiversityMatters with our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from all social, religious & ethnical backgrounds, disabilities both mental and physical, identities (gender) and neurodivergent people.

MAHLE is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment based non-immigrant and immigrant visas.

However, as a global company, MAHLE offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website www.jobs.mahle.com

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