Senior Production Manager

Our purpose at Michelin is to offer humanity a better way forward. We are a leading industry company, and we have 3 main strategies: with, around and beyond tires with solutions for a wide variety of vehicles: airplanes, cars, bicycles, motorcycles, excavators; also, for the mining, agricultural, construction and heavy sectors. We also offer fleet management services through technological solutions that allow us to improve their performance; and finally, we help improve travel experiences through maps, travel guides and through our global known Michelin stars.

With our global headquarters located in Clermont-Ferrand, France and several regional HQ, locations, and sites throughout the world in in more than 170 countries our team is more than 125,000 colleagues and together we continue writing our story of more than 130 years.

Moving forward is about personal fulfillment too, it is capitalizing your strengths and interests and having the opportunity of sharing value through your uniqueness; because your age, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or marital status is the key differentiator for the diversity we embrace. Diversity enables innovation, and this has been the reflection of our ambition and social impact for equity and inclusion.

We invite you to join our team in the following role: Senior Production Manager

Mission and context of the role

The Senior Production Manager is based in León, Guanajuato in one of the biggest sites of Michelin around the world. He/she will be responsible for managing the security, quality and efficiency for its perimeter on site. The person holding this position will report to the Production Director for the entire factory; the Senior Production Manager will also manage a team of 9 direct reports aprox.

Which are the general key expected achievements?

• Delivery (CT and MT) of products conforming to the workshop’s engagement while respecting Safety, People, Machine, Quality, Delivery and Cost performance and other standards.
• Coherence of jobs / competencies with the current needs and to develop the accountability of OR teams.
• Continuous performance improvement in the Workshop in line with the plans while respecting our annual strategic priorities and Global Safety approaches.
• Responsible for the development and management of the budget.

What are the main challenges?

• Inspire the direct and indirect teams around a Safety and Quality culture aligned to Michelin standards and also ICARE Leadership Model.  
• Efficient management of all the types of resources at her/his disposal.
• Identifies and develps talent within and outside his/her team.
• Ensures the development of security team members, applies the personnel practices according to Michelin processes.

What do you need to successfully contribute to our purpose?

• Engineering or business academic background.
• Previous experience in manufacturing environments and leading operational and tactical teams.
• Solid people skills and proven experience developing people.
• English business proficiency.

How success look like in the First 3 months?

• The initial training plan is completed.
• Understanding of the production system at Michelin.
• Understanding and engaging with the ICARE Leadership Model.
• Demonstrate full awareness and commitment to the security and quality standards of Michelin.

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunities for an accelerated and international career development.  
• Multicultural, fast paced, diverse and inclusive environment.
• Development in a highly automated plant (modern, with ultimate technology in the production of pneumatics industry).