Relocation: No
Travel: 10% to 25%
Education Experience: Bachelors Degree (High School +4 years)
Employment Experience: 7-10 years
At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.
Job Overview
Manages molding department supervisors and molding teams, and provides daily direction, coaching, and leadership to supervisors to ensure department alignment with operational strategies.
- Responsible for the day-to-day operations and longer term planning for manufacturing functions, including manufacturing, production control, engineering, inventory control, purchasing and shipping/receiving activities
- Defines goals, improves technologies, and resolves problems. Translates customer requirements into state-of-the-art manufacturing strategies and processes, resulting in cost-effective processing and profitable manufacturing of company products. Develops operations related plans, budgets, and policies and procedures.
Your main tasks:
- Responsible for overall molding operations with full P&L accountability, driving productivity, cost efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction
- Leads continuous improvement and Lean (TEOA) initiatives to achieve operational excellence and safety targets while ensuring compliance with automotive quality and EHS standards
- Manages end-to-end production, including capacity planning, materials, and resources, to meet customer demand and business objectives
- Develops and executes operating budgets, production plans, and CapEx initiatives
- Builds and leads high-performing teams through effective workforce planning, talent development, performance management, and employee engagement
- Ensures stable daily operations, optimized machine utilization, and achievement of KPIs (OEE, scrap, delivery, quality)
- Drives a zero-incident safety culture, strong quality mindset (IATF 16949, ISO 9001), and a superior customer experience through structured processes, standard work, and data-driven decision-making
- Demonstrates strong decision-making and problem-solving skills to meet operational targets while effectively managing risk and compliance
- Brings a results-driven, customer-focused mindset with solid business acumen and high ethical standards
- Leads and develops diverse teams through clear vision, motivation, and trust-based leadership
- Applies strong expertise in operations strategy, Lean management, cost and inventory control, quality and risk management, and change leadership
- Excels in planning, organizing, project execution, and timely decision-making to drive continuous improvement and sustainable business performance
Your ideal profile:
- 4-Year College Degree Preferred. Technical discipline preferredAdvanced degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or MBA preferred
- Minimum 10+ years of experience required
- Minimum 5+ years management experience required. Experience in manufacturing or production environment desired
- Prior experience managing a team of direct and matrixed reports preferred
- Requires deep knowledge in area of accountability and multi-functional or multi-unit management experience
- Contributes to defining business strategy and develops own organization in support of that strategy
- Has measurable impact on operating efficiencies and organizational objectives
- Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including knowledge of current business trendsProvides input on resolving critical issues that impact the function
- Directs a function or unit or multiple subfunctions or sub-units through managers
- Establishes and assures adherence to budgets, work plans, and performance requirements
- Prior experience in supply chain, materials or operations management preferred
- Strong demonstrated engineering/technical acumen and finance/financial acumen preferred
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office applications, i.e. Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
Competencies
SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.
Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS:
We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!
- Unlimited job contract opportunity
- Collaborative and friendly work environment
- Extensive training and career growth opportunities
- Private medical healthcare package
- Employee referral bonus
- Other location-dependent benefits
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD
TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.
Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.
