Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!

Responsibilities:

At our production site in Bramsche, you take full responsibility for leading a textile-focused manufacturing operation with 200–300 employees. You ensure the highest standards of quality, delivery reliability, and cost efficiency for industrial customers.

• Site leadership: You manage the production site holistically – strategically and operationally, with a clear focus on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability

• Performance ownership: You continuously drive the site’s performance and ensure targets are achieved in delivery performance, cost, and efficiency

• Leadership: You lead the plant leadership team both functionally and disciplinarily, develop talent, and foster a performance-driven, appreciative work culture

• Compliance: In particular across HSE, quality, and compliance, you ensure adherence to all legal requirements and internal standards

• Operational Excellence: You use lean management, continuous improvement, and sustainable change processes to further develop and grow the site

• Budget responsibility: You take ownership of OPEX and CAPEX budgets and allocate investments strategically to further develop the site

• Stakeholder management: As the key representative of the site, you interact confidently with internal stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and authorities

Qualifications:

• You are an experienced leader with several years of hands-on experience in a manufacturing environment

• You have already successfully managed a plant, production site, or larger production area and know how to further develop and professionalize structures in a growing environment

• You bring solid expertise in lean management, change processes, and operational excellence, along with a strong understanding of business and financial drivers (e.g. OPEX / CAPEX)

• On a personal level, you stand out through decisiveness, strong visibility on the shop floor, analytical thinking, and the ability to create structure in a growing environment

• With an integrative and appreciative leadership style, you know how to further develop an organization, support employees in their growth, and create clarity and commitment

• You are also confident in an international environment and communicate fluently in both German and English (at least C1 level in both languages)

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The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.