The Role

The Production Engineer is responsible for achieving established production targets while ensuring compliance with safety, health, quality, environmental, delivery, and productivity standards. This role manages material resources, leads manufacturing teams, and ensures the preservation and reliability of production equipment and processes within the assigned area.

What You'll Do

• Lead daily start-of-shift meetings, ensuring team engagement, proper PPE usage, and understanding of safety and operational priorities.
• Promote a strong safety culture by identifying and immediately addressing unsafe conditions and behaviors that may impact employees, equipment, materials, or facilities.
• Ensure compliance with safety procedures, including PPE requirements and Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) practices.
• Authorize and oversee special work permits, including hot work, work at heights, confined space entry, and energized work activities.
• Conduct SafeTrack observations, provide coaching, document findings, and drive corrective actions.
• Support health, safety, environmental, and 5S inspections and ensure timely resolution of identified issues.
• Participate in incident investigations and ensure proper escalation and reporting processes are followed.
• Audit operating conditions and first-piece approvals to maintain process stability and product quality.
• Ensure proper identification, segregation, and control of non-conforming products.
• Maintain compliance with IATF 16949 quality requirements and ensure all applicable procedures are followed by production teams.
• Perform Layered Process Audits (LPA) and drive corrective actions for identified deviations.
• Escalate and respond rapidly to quality issues, ensuring adherence to escalation and containment procedures.
• Stop production activities when quality risks or non-conformities are identified.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 14001 environmental requirements and respond appropriately to environmental emergencies.
• Execute production plans while ensuring operational continuity and escalating unexpected deviations.
• Support Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) activities, ensuring completion of basic equipment care activities and planned maintenance interventions.
• Ensure timely creation, execution, and closure of maintenance work orders.
• Safeguard equipment reliability and operational continuity by addressing conditions that could impact machinery performance.
• Drive seamless shift transitions and eliminate production losses during shift handovers.
• Manage workforce scheduling, vacation planning, attendance tracking, and payroll-related exceptions.
• Lead High Performance Teams (HPTs) to achieve operational goals and key performance indicators.
• Facilitate HPT meetings, track action items, and promote structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Ensure completion of training plans, skills certifications, and workforce development initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement projects utilizing Lean Manufacturing, Gemba Coaching, Green Belt methodologies, and other operational excellence tools.
• Maintain an individual development plan and actively pursue high-performance leadership practices.
• Foster an inclusive, ethical, and results-oriented work environment aligned with Clarios values.

What Success Looks Like

• Safe and compliant operations with zero tolerance for unsafe behaviors or conditions.
• Consistent achievement of production, quality, delivery, and cost objectives.
• High equipment reliability and effective TPM execution.
• Strong employee engagement, capability development, and HPT performance.
• Effective implementation of continuous improvement initiatives resulting in measurable operational gains.
• Full compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and corporate EHS standards.

Core Competencies

• Leadership & Team Development
• Safety Leadership
• Operational Excellence
• Decision Making & Problem Solving
• Quality Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability & Ownership
• Effective Communication
• Collaboration & Cross-Functional Teamwork
• Change Management

What You'll Bring

• Experience supervising production operations within manufacturing environments such as metalworking, automotive, chemical, or similar industries.
• Strong knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC).
• Experience managing production operations, manpower, and material resources.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001, ISO 45001, IATF 16949, and EHS management systems.
• Knowledge of industrial safety programs, including STOP, Take 2, SafeTrack, and Lockout/Tagout (LOTO).
• Experience leading and developing high-performance teams.
• Inventory management and production control experience.
• Knowledge of ERP and manufacturing systems such as SAP and QAD.
• Experience applying Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) principles.
• Strong understanding of Lean Manufacturing tools, including:
  • 5S
  • Quick Changeover (QCO/SMED)
  • Standardized Work
  • Kanban
• Knowledge of foundry, casting, and metallurgical processes.
• Experience managing payroll-related systems and workforce administration.
• Demonstrated ability to drive accountability, ownership, and results.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

Additional Requirements

• Strong ethical leadership aligned with Clarios values.
• Proactive and results-driven mindset.
• Positive attitude and resilience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong listening and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to take ownership of challenges and drive effective solutions.
• Intermediate to advanced English proficiency preferred.

About Clarios:

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF). 

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Equal Employment Opportunity:
Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email [email protected].

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