The Role
The Production Engineer is responsible for achieving production objectives while ensuring compliance with safety, health, quality, environmental, volume, and delivery requirements. The role manages operational resources, frontline personnel, and equipment preservation to sustain safe and reliable manufacturing performance in the assigned area.
What You'll Do (Impact Areas)
Safety, Health & Environmental Compliance
- Lead start-of-shift safety meetings, reinforce proper PPE use, and ensure team understanding of critical safety messages.
- Stop unsafe activities or conditions; enforce lockout/tagout (LOTO) and applicable safety procedures, including special-work permits.
- Conduct SafeTrack observations, follow up on planned inspections, and support incident investigations and escalation.
- Ensure compliance with environmental procedures, including ISO 14001 requirements, and respond appropriately to environmental risks.
Production Execution & Operational Continuity
- Execute the production schedule and escalate deviations that could affect volume, quality, or delivery.
- Coordinate shift handovers to minimize operational interruptions and preserve continuity of production.
- Manage day-to-day operational priorities, resources, and frontline workforce administration, including attendance exceptions and vacation scheduling.
- Protect machinery and peripheral equipment by identifying conditions that threaten operational reliability.
Quality & Manufacturing Standards
- Verify first-piece release conditions and product specifications; ensure proper identification and containment of nonconforming product.
- Follow and enforce applicable IATF 16949 quality procedures, layered process audits (LPA), deviation escalation, and rapid response actions.
- Stop activities that jeopardize product quality and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
Equipment Care & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure execution of basic equipment care routines, planned technical interventions, and accurate opening and closure of maintenance work orders.
- Apply TPM and Lean Manufacturing tools, including 5S, quick changeover (QCO), standardized work, and Kanban, to improve operating performance.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Gemba coaching, Green Belt approaches, or other relevant problem-solving methods.
People Leadership & High-Performance Teams
- Develop frontline personnel through training plans, skills certification, and ongoing performance feedback.
- Lead High Performance Teams (HPTs), facilitate follow-up meetings, review scorecards, and track problem-solving actions.
- Promote accountability, ethical leadership, inclusion, effective communication, and employee engagement.
What Success Looks Like
- Consistent achievement of production, safety, quality, and delivery targets.
- Reliable execution of the production plan with timely escalation and resolution of operational deviations.
- Strong adherence to IATF 16949, ISO 14001, safety procedures, and equipment-care requirements.
- Improved team capability and HPT maturity through training, scorecard reviews, and action-plan follow-through.
- Documented operational improvements driven by Lean and structured problem solving.
Core Competencies
- Shop-floor Leadership & Team Development
- Production Planning & Execution
- Lean Manufacturing & TPM
- Continuous Improvement
- Root Cause Analysis & Problem Solving
- Quality, Safety & Environmental Compliance
- Data Analysis & Performance Management
- Accountability & Results Orientation
- Communication & Cross-Functional Collaboration
What You Bring (Qualifications)
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience in production supervision and management of manufacturing processes within metalworking, automotive, chemical, or similar industrial environments.
- Knowledge of operations management, statistical process control, industrial safety, and manufacturing quality systems.
- Experience leading production teams and managing operational resources.
- Knowledge of IATF 16949 and applicable ISO management systems.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- English proficiency: 80%.
Technical Knowledge
- Manufacturing management systems such as QAD or SAP.
- Inventory management and control.
- TPM and Lean Manufacturing tools, including 5S, QCO, standardized work, and Kanban.
- Safety practices and systems such as STOP, Toma 2, and SafeTrack.
- Continuous improvement methodologies and structured problem-solving techniques.
Work Model & Travel
- Plant-based position with regular presence on the production floor.
- Shift rotation required.
- Travel: Not required.
- Relocation: Not required.
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 Special.Accommodations@Clarios.com.
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