Job Description
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.
Your tasks
- Own and drive site operational performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People
- Lead daily operations with a strong Gemba presence, ensuring visibility, responsiveness, and problem-solving at the shopfloor
- Take full ownership of site KPIs and cost control performance for the assigned CoC plant(s)
- Ensure execution discipline through standard work, performance reviews, and escalation management
- Ensure customer service is maintained at the highest level
- Management of supplier quality and performance to ensure operational efficiency on site
- Ensure customer satisfaction across all indicators
- Legal compliance, including labor, environmental, and operational compliance
- Audit readiness, including ISO, IATF, and customer audits
- Act as Production Team Manager, eliminating unnecessary management layers
- Directly lead and align supervisors and frontline teams
- Drive a high-performance culture with clear accountability and ownership at all levels
- Ensure structured routines, including tier meetings, escalation processes, and visual management
- Build a strong, engaged, and accountable workforce
- Maintain high accessibility and visibility to shopfloor employees
- Coach and develop supervisors and emerging leaders
- Lead performance management, succession planning, and workforce planning
- Drive engagement, inclusion, and continuous improvement mindset
- Lead all on-site support functions, including quality, engineering, logistics, and HR, in alignment with site priorities
- Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration to achieve operational targets
- Fully accountable for end-to-end site performance
- Own and drive site cost control, including cost efficiency and productivity improvements
- Support achievement of overall site financial performance
- Partner with the Multi-Site WL on financial planning and performance tracking
- Develop strong business acumen and understanding of P&L drivers; full P&L accountability resides with WL
- Owns safety performance and regulatory compliance
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives aligned with CoC and organizational priorities
- Lead problem-solving activities and sustain improvements including effective root cause and permanent countermeasures to ensure no repeat issues
- Embed lean principles and operational excellence at the shopfloor level
Your Profile
- Proven leadership experience in manufacturing/operations
- Strong operational and production management expertise
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and drive performance
- Solid understanding of lean/continuous improvement principles
- Business acumen with exposure to financial performance metrics
- High potential for advancement into senior leadership roles
- Strong leadership presence on the shopfloor
- Effective shop floor management using the standard tools
- Ability to drive results through others
- High level of ownership and accountability
- Effective cross-functional collaboration
- Balance of operational focus and strategic thinking
- Readiness for future progression to WL role
- Responsible for one CoC plant: SPA, ARL, or LAN
- Operates within a multi-site leadership model
- Works in close alignment with peer Site Managers and central functions
Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical and insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.
*Benefits package may vary slightly per location
