Production Engineering Team Leader

Manages and supervises the Production Engineering Main Harness org unit according to defined objectives and KPIs. Identifies potential for improvement, offers consulting, and contributes to service delivery. Ensures standard and governance adherence and process execution. Plans team activities, defines objectives, tasks, and responsibilities for team members, and monitors results. Identifies training needs, supports professional development, and proposes measures for improving team performance, flexibility, diversity, succession planning, coaching, change management, and personal growth.

Must Have

• Manage and supervise Production Engineering Main Harness unit.
• Identify improvement potential and consult on service delivery.
• Ensure standard, governance adherence, and process execution.
• Plan and organize regular team activities.
• Define team objectives, tasks, and responsibilities.
• Monitor and evaluate team performance and results.
• Identify and address training and development needs.
• Support subordinates' professional growth and knowledge application.
• Propose and implement team performance improvement measures.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 3 years relevant department experience.
• Minimum 2 years leadership and project experience.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and development skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Professional English language proficiency.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Company Description

LEONI is a global provider of products, solutions and services for energy and data management in the automotive industry. The group of companies employs about 85,000 people in 23 countries and generated consolidated sales of EUR 5 billion in 2024.

The value chain ranges from standardized cables and special and data cables to highly complex wiring systems and related components, from development to production. As an innovation partner with distinctive development and systems expertise, we support our customers on the path to increasingly sustainable and connected mobility concepts from autonomous driving to alternative drives as well as charging systems.

Job Description

• Manages and supervises the Production Engineering Main Harness org unit according to defined objectives and KPIs.
• Identifies potential for improvement in area of responsibility, offers consulting and contributes to improvement of service delivery.
• Takes responsibility for standard & governance adherence and process execution.
• Plans the regular team activity in order to cover all the activity stages and reply to all the requests received.
• Defines the team members’ objectives, tasks and responsibilities. Provides clear instructions, monitoring and evaluation of the results.
• Identifies the training and development needs of direct reports, follows the subordinates' professional development and provides assistance for using newly acquired knowledge.
• Proposes and applies measures for improving team performance, organizational flexibility, diversity, succession planning, coaching, change management and personal growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree of Engineering
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a relevant department
• Minimum 2 years of experience in leadership and projects roles
• Strong Leadership skills with a high sense of Employee Coaching and Development
• High sense of analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Professional level of English Language
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Additional Information

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