Production Line Leader

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This position reports to

Manufacturing Unit Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to ensure efficient and cost-effective production results. Each day, you will be responsible to meet order demand, specifications, quality, and planning targets through the coordination and management of plant equipment, personnel, and production processes (quantity, quality, budgeted costs, and proper productivity level). You will also showcase your expertise by developing programs, projects, goals, and metrics to lead the organization to the highest level of operational performance while optimizing working capital throughout Operations. The work model for the role is: #LI-OnSite This role is contributing to the Electrification Area in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon. You will be mainly accountable for: • Prepares the annual production budget for multiple production lines, overseeing progress and implementing corrective actions to address cost issues. • Developing and executing plans to reduce non-value-added costs, increase revenues, and delight customers by delivering products on time with high factory and supplier yields and decreasing product field failure rates. • Develops and executes strategies to optimize the operational performance of multiple production lines. • Implements best practices to enhance efficiency in high-volume lines and optimize throughput in lower-volume, high-mix lines customer relations. • Leads a workforce across multiple production lines, ensuring proper staffing, training, and development aligned with operational complexity. • Guides, motivates, and develops direct and indirect reports, fostering a culture of continuous learning and process improvement.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical or similar engineering.
• Experience managing hourly and salary employees (+120 HC).
• Experience in a supervisory role, production control, production leader, production superintendent.
• Experience in managing production programs. Monitoring production dates, fulfilling customer requests.
• Experience in SAP, Excel & PowerBI.
• Experience in the electrical, electronic or similar manufacturing sector.
• Lean Six Sigma Certification.
• APICS Certification.
• Advanced English Level.
• Strong oral and written communication.
• Leadership and strong interpersonal skills.

What's in it for you?

• Enjoy a supportive and solution driven team environment
• Bring your knowledge and expertise, make the difference in technology
• Feel empowered: take ownership and drive exciting results in your scope of action

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Paid and Unpaid leave opportunities
• Wellbeing program
• Dental insurance.
• Flex days.
• Employee Assistance Program (PAE).
• Development platforms: Spark, Harvard Manager Mentor and English Learning EF English Live School (EF).

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