Manufacturing Manager

Ready to shape your future with a leading international team? At Eurofit, you’ll find more than just a job—you’ll discover opportunities to expand your expertise, take on new challenges, and accelerate your personal and professional growth. Whether you’re looking to make an impact locally or eager to explore our European locations, your journey starts here. At Eurofit, your ambition drives the direction.

Your Mission

As a Manufacturing Manager, you lead both Production & Maintenance in all its aspects, within the plant, by means of the handed tools. You are responsible to ensure a structured and undisturbed operation in the plant by organizing all relevant parts, applying defined rules and regulations and support their further development. As a Manufacturing Manager, you are the local process owner of the following processes: Maintenance & Production.

Your Responsibilities

• Responsible for production scheduling (shift and staff planning, based on production targets)
• Ensures structured and smooth operation processes by alignment of production & maintenance activities including relevant departments and customer needs
• Obtains and reports progress on the Production and Maintenance objectives to the Plant Management Team and group Reports and follows up the record of production means
• Carrying out deviating actions for maintenance (repairs, programming) and production (rework, plan weekend work, …)
• Maintains and ensures the plant process in terms of availability and reduction of downtime
• Ensures maintenance of all equipment of the plant (machines, buildings, etc.)
• Manages the parameters of production line/assembly line efficiency
• Ensures the compliance to group maintenance process flows, procedures, and requirements
• Implements and maintains a Total Productive Maintenance system
• Follows-up and avoids obsolescence of equipment/parts in the plant
• Cooperates with the Quality Manager to ensure follow-up and reporting of the quality objectives of the plant, group, and customer
• Implements changes with regards to remarks of the customer
• Organizes execution of the PPAP process
• Maintains and improves environmental, safety and quality standards
• Supervises the Production and Maintenance teams (Managers, Leaders and Technicians)
• Follows up and checks the hours performed, and monitors overtime
• Drafts and edits the holiday planning of personnel
• Executes yearly assessment interviews, employee dialogues
• Ensures the creation, check and maintenance of the skill matrix and training of direct and indirect reports
• Develops a continuous improvement mind-set by applying the associated methods
• Strives for an optimal manufacturing environment where Maintenance and Production go hand in hand to reach a higher effectiveness of the process
• Reduces waste and energy consumption in the plant, according to local law and company rules
• Ensures regular communication in the plant during organized daily/weekly/monthly meetings
• Creates and shares best practices to benchmark within the group

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• 3 years of experience in a managerial position, directly related to production, maintenance or lean manufacturing
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Good knowledge of the applicable IATF 16949 and ISO 14001/45001 principles, if applicable
• Technical field knowledge (pneumatic, hydraulics, mechanics, electrics, …)
• Comprehensive understanding of Tire-Wheel assembly
• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement Methodology (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, …)
• Excellent MS-Office skills
• Fluent in the local language and English
• Knowledge of CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
• Experience dealing with ERP/MES systems; SAP skills welcome

Our Offer

We're offering a challenging job in an industry driven by innovation and automation with a chance to prove yourself and build a career in an international and multicultural environment. You'll get a salary package in line with the market.