Duncan
Site Manager
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.Your Tasks
- Own and drive site operational performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People
- Lead daily operations with a strong Gemba presence, ensuring visibility, responsiveness, and problem-solving at the shopfloor
- Take full ownership of site KPIs and cost control performance for the assigned CoC plant(s)
- Ensure execution discipline through standard work, performance reviews, and escalation management
- Ensure customer service is maintained at the highest level
- Management of supplier quality and performance to ensure operational efficiency on site
- Ensure customer satisfaction across all indicators
- Legal compliance, including labor, environmental, and operational compliance
- Audit readiness, including ISO, IATF, and customer audits
- Act as Production Team Manager, eliminating unnecessary management layers
- Directly lead and align supervisors and frontline teams
- Drive a high-performance culture with clear accountability and ownership at all levels
- Ensure structured routines, including tier meetings, escalation processes, and visual management
- Build a strong, engaged, and accountable workforce
- Maintain high accessibility and visibility to shopfloor employees
- Coach and develop supervisors and emerging leaders
- Lead performance management, succession planning, and workforce planning
- Drive engagement, inclusion, and continuous improvement mindset
- Lead all on-site support functions, including quality, engineering, logistics, and HR, in alignment with site priorities
- Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration to achieve operational targets
- Fully accountable for end-to-end site performance
- Own and drive site cost control, including cost efficiency and productivity improvements
- Support achievement of overall site financial performance
- Partner with the Multi-Site WL on financial planning and performance tracking
- Develop strong business acumen and understanding of P&L drivers; full P&L accountability resides with WL
- Owns safety performance and regulatory compliance
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives aligned with CoC and organizational priorities
- Lead problem-solving activities and sustain improvements including effective root cause and permanent countermeasures to ensure no repeat issues
- Embed lean principles and operational excellence at the shopfloor level
Your Profile
- Proven leadership experience in manufacturing/operations
- Strong operational and production management expertise
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and drive performance
- Solid understanding of lean/continuous improvement principles
- Business acumen with exposure to financial performance metrics
- High potential for advancement into senior leadership roles
- Strong leadership presence on the shopfloor
- Effective shop floor management using the standard tools
- Ability to drive results through others
- High level of ownership and accountability
- Effective cross-functional collaboration
- Balance of operational focus and strategic thinking
- Readiness for future progression to WL role
- Responsible for one CoC plant: SPA, ARL, or LAN
- Operates within a multi-site leadership model
- Works in close alignment with peer Site Managers and central functions
Julia Edwards
(+1) 2483394059