Your mission, roles and responsibilitiesLead Manufacturing Excellence. Drive Performance. Shape the Future of Sustainable Mobility.
At FORVIA, we are redefining mobility through innovation, operational excellence, and a commitment to sustainability. As a global automotive technology leader, we are seeking a Deputy Plant Manager to help drive world-class manufacturing performance while developing high-performing teams in a fast-paced production environment.
Your Impact
As Deputy Plant Manager, you will play a critical leadership role in overseeing plant operations and driving excellence across production, quality, cost, delivery, safety, and people development. Partnering closely with the Plant Manager, you will help define and execute manufacturing strategies that ensure operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and sustainable growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coach Autonomous Production Unit (UAP) Managers while partnering with functional leaders across HR, Quality, Finance, Logistics, Purchasing, and Engineering.
- Drive plant performance through continuous improvement initiatives focused on Quality, Cost, and Delivery (QCD).
- Ensure customer satisfaction through consistent execution and operational excellence.
- Develop and manage plant budgets while achieving performance targets.
- Optimize manufacturing processes, plant layout, equipment utilization, and operational efficiency.
- Support successful launches of new products and ensure production readiness across all functions.
- Improve supplier performance and strengthen operational collaboration throughout the supply chain.
- Deploy and sustain the FORVIA Excellence System, embedding lean manufacturing principles and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Champion employee health, safety, and environmental compliance while fostering a strong safety-first culture.
- Lead talent acquisition, development, succession planning, and employee engagement initiatives.
- Partner with the Plant Manager to maintain positive employee relations and a productive workplace culture.
- Develop future manufacturing leaders and technical experts within the organization.
- Drive daily operational management routines including TOP5, QRQC, TOP60, HSE audits, and performance reviews.
- Generate and implement innovative ideas that improve plant performance and operational effectiveness.
Your profile and competencies to succeedMinimum education level:
- Minimum education level: Bachelor's degree or Master's degree (preferred) from engineering school
Professional Experience:
- Successful experience in production management and lean manufacturing
- Minimum 5 years professional experience, in a multi-site industrial environment
Skills and competencies:
- Proven experience in team management, proven leadership skills and ability to coach
- Knowledge in finance & control management
- High degree of autonomy in day-to-day management and decision making
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to unite teams
- Results oriented
This position is not eligible now or in the future for new visa sponsorship of any kind.
What we can do for you- At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
- We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
- We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
- We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
- We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
- Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.56C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.
