Lead Supervisor 1

MAHLE GmbH; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

MAHLE, a global automotive supplier, is seeking a Lead Supervisor in Dayton, OH to guide a production team with emphasis on safety, quality, and efficiency. The role requires 10+ years in manufacturing leadership, a Bachelor's degree, and strong SAP/Excel skills.

You will drive KPI performance, coordinate scheduling, and support continuous improvement initiatives. Join MAHLE's BU2 Thermal and Fluid Systems in Dayton to help ensure on-time deliveries, optimize resources, and develop talent while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required 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.
• Experience with SAP is preferred; MS Office and Excel proficiency expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead production team in daily activities including safety, KPI's, quality, scheduling and continuous improvement.
• Ensure safety and health standards are met to keep an accident-free organization.
• Motivate and support production staff and communicate with upper management about production issues.
• Balance increased productivity with reduced costs of manufacturing operations.
• Evaluate machine resources to ensure continued production and minimal downtime.
• Develop workflow policies and procedures to improve efficiency while maintaining safety and quality.
• Identify concerns that may affect production schedules and ensure on-time customer shipments.
• Lead shopfloor management meetings addressing deviations from standard/budget in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Costs.

Skills

Leadership

Decision making

Teamwork

Organizational skills

People management

Problem-solving

Conflict management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or related field

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

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Together, we move the world—we’ve been doing it for over 100 years. At MAHLE, as a leading international development partner and systems supplier to the automotive industry, we pursue the objective of making mobility more efficient, more environmentally friendly, more convenient, and more economical. As part of our dual strategy, we are working both on the intelligent combustion engine for the use of hydrogen and other nonfossil fuels and on technologies for fuel cells and e-mobility.
MAHLE generated sales of €11.3 billion in 2025. Employing just under 65,000 people at 127 production locations and 11 technology centers, the company is represented in 28 countries. (as at: 12/31/2025). Join our MAHLE team! #weshapefuturemobility

Your Contribution

As our Lead Supervisor, 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.
• 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 experience with SAP (preferable)
• Computer literacy especially in MS office of Excel

Our Offer

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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Facts about the job

Entry level: Experienced hires

Part- / Full-time: Full Time

Functional area: Production

Department: BU2 Thermal and Fluid Systems

Location: Dayton, OH, US, 45404

Company: MTFS Dayton (US)

Your future at MAHLE

As a team player and someone who thinks ahead, you can deploy all your skills with us. In cooperation with colleagues from different countries and areas, you contribute in designing the mobility of the future. When selecting MAHLE, you choose trend-setting technologies and strategies. Are you interested in working with us and developing efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions, optimising existing products, and turning innovative ideas into reality? Then MAHLE is the right address for you.