DescriptionPosition Overview:
As Operational Excellence Lead, you will play a central role in the strategic development of our operations organization. With your technical know-how, your management experience and your eye for sustainable improvements, you will actively shape the future of our production sites. You will lead a dedicated team, drive optimization initiatives and, together with internal and external partners, ensure efficient and future-oriented maintenance.
Core Responsibilities:
- Leading the Operational Excellence & CNC Programming team and coordinating tasks
- Analyzing and optimizing existing production processes
- Planning and introducing new manufacturing technologies and methods
- Working with process KPIs and continuously improving quality standards
- Advising development and design teams on manufacturing-oriented product design
- Planning production capacities while taking economic and logistical factors into account
- Planning and implementing investment projects (machines and equipment)
- Ongoing analysis of tooling costs as well as auxiliary materials and operating supplies
- Close collaboration with external companies such as tool manufacturers, machine suppliers, and engineering/design offices
- Creative participation in Lean Six Sigma projects
Qualifications:
- Key professional / project / leadership competencies
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Independent and proactive way of working
- Cross functional mindset
- Creative, flexible, committed, enthusiastic, actively drive innovation, open to new tasks, willingness to learn
- Teamwork and communication skills, customer orientation, planning and organizational talent, analytical ability, resilience, as well as a strong sense of responsibility and quality
- Excellent analytical skills as well as technical creativity
- Required Work Experience
- Several years of relevant professional experience in industrial production planning with increasing responsibility
- Experience working with ERP systems (ideally ORACLE)
- Experience with tool management software is an advantage, ideally TDM, Vericut, Top Solid
- Strong CAD and MS Office skills
- English language fluency with German a plus.
- Education / Professional Qualifications
- Successfully completed degree in a technical field of study (university of applied sciences, university, or similar) or comparable qualification/training
