What You'll Do (Impact Areas)

Safety, Health & Environmental Compliance

- Lead start-of-shift safety meetings, reinforce proper PPE use, and ensure team understanding of critical safety messages.
- Stop unsafe activities or conditions; enforce lockout/tagout (LOTO) and applicable safety procedures, including special-work permits.
- Conduct SafeTrack observations, follow up on planned inspections, and support incident investigations and escalation.
- Ensure compliance with environmental procedures, including ISO 14001 requirements, and respond appropriately to environmental risks.

Production Execution & Operational Continuity

- Execute the production schedule and elevate deviations that could affect volume, quality, or delivery.
- Coordinate shift handovers to minimize operational interruptions and preserve continuity of production.
- Manage day-to-day operational priorities, resources, and frontline workforce administration, including attendance exceptions and vacation scheduling.
- Protect machinery and peripheral equipment by identifying conditions that threaten operational reliability.

Quality & Manufacturing Standards

- Verify first-piece release conditions and product specifications; ensure proper identification and containment of nonconforming product.
- Follow and enforce applicable IATF 16949 quality procedures, layered process audits (LPA), deviation escalation, and rapid response actions.
- Stop activities that jeopardize product quality and ensure corrective actions are implemented.

Equipment Care & Continuous Improvement

- Ensure execution of basic equipment care routines, planned technical interventions, and accurate opening and closure of maintenance work orders.




- Apply TPM and Lean Manufacturing tools, including 5S, quick changeover (QCO), standardized work, and Kanban, to improve operating performance.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Gemba coaching, Green Belt approaches, or other relevant problem-solving methods.

People Leadership & High-Performance Teams

- Develop frontline personnel through training plans, skills certification, and ongoing performance feedback.
- Lead High Performance Teams (HPTs), facilitate follow-up meetings, review scorecards, and track problem-solving actions.
- Promote accountability, ethical leadership, inclusion, effective communication, and employee engagement.

What Success Looks Like

- Consistent achievement of production, safety, quality, and delivery targets.
- Reliable execution of the production plan with timely escalation and resolution of operational deviations.
- Strong adherence to IATF 16949, ISO 14001, safety procedures, and equipment-care requirements.
- Improved team capability and HPT maturity through training, scorecard reviews, and action-plan follow-through.
- Documented operational improvements driven by Lean and structured problem solving.

Core Competencies

- Shop-floor Leadership & Team Development
- Production Planning & Execution
- Lean Manufacturing & TPM




- Continuous Improvement
- Root Cause Analysis & Problem Solving
- Quality, Safety & Environmental Compliance
- Data Analysis & Performance Management
- Accountability & Results Orientation
- Communication & Cross-Functional Collaboration

What You Bring (Qualifications)

- Required Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience in production supervision and management of manufacturing processes within metalworking, automotive, chemical, or similar industrial environments.
- Knowledge of operations management, statistical process control, industrial safety, and manufacturing quality systems.
- Experience leading production teams and managing operational resources.
- Knowledge of IATF 16949 and applicable ISO management systems.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- English proficiency: 80%.
- Technical Knowledge Manufacturing management systems such as QAD or SAP.
- Inventory management and control.
- TPM and Lean Manufacturing tools, including 5S, QCO, standardized work, and Kanban.
- Safety practices and systems such as STOP, Toma 2, and SafeTrack.
- Continuous improvement methodologies and structured problem-solving techniques.

Work Model & Travel

Plant-based position with regular presence on the production floor. Shift rotation required. Travel: Not required. Relocation: Not required.

About Clarios

Clarios is the general leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our

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