Production Manager

Are you ready to make an impact? ZF is looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a FutureStarter, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of mobility. Join us and be part of something extraordinary!

Production Manager

Country/Region: MX

Location: MX

Job Description

About the Team
ZF is a global technology company supplying systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and industrial technology, enabling the next generation of mobility. ZF allows vehicles to see, think and act. In the four technology domains of Vehicle Motion Control, Integrated Safety, Automated Driving, and Electric Mobility, ZF offers comprehensive product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. ZF electrifies a wide range of vehicle types. With its products, the company contributes to reducing emissions, protecting the climate and enhancing safe mobility.

What you can look forward to as Production Manager:

• Disciplinary leadership of the production in the production unit (supervisors and team leads)
• Leading the Production Unit Management Team
• Assure and ensure appropriate assets (manpower, equipment / infrastructure and materials) of the production unit are available and deployed to deliver the required and agreed operational performance.
• Lead, manage, coach, mentor and develop production unit leadership with passion to ensure that a diverse result‑oriented organization is in place and is cascaded throughout the production unit by empowerment, clear accountability and compliance according to the ZF Way.
• Drive the organization in achieving operational performance/budgets, ensuring the achievement of Daily (SFM Process), Quarterly and Annual (OP/SP) production unit Targets of: Safety Performance, Quality Performance, Customer Delivery Performance, Production Volumes, Manufacturing Costs, Productivity, Working Capital, Profit, Cash (OPV, LTAR, ITR, PPP, OEE, FCP, ect ect…) and long‑term business objectives. Vs. daily, quarterly and annual production unit target aligned with general plant SQCDP KPI’s
• Drives and fosters an environment of continuous improvement, ensures that there is a long‑term vision (plant level?) for the production unit supported by a detailed production unit roadmap following the “ZF PS Way” with a clear correlation between action and results.
• Based on the ZF planning cycles, the production unit manager will produce an OP/SP and resource / infrastructure plan with their superior.
• Ensure that customers internally and externally, product lines and other functions are fully understood and that reliable relationships are established and maintained to the mutual benefit of both parties.

Your Profile as Production Manager:

• Lean Management, Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement
• 5+ years solid working experience in Operations and relevant Functions
• 2+ years leadership experience
• Transformation competence and organizational development skills
• Coaching and Mentoring Skills
• Business / Finance Management Acumen
• Results-oriented
• In Dept- Knowledge in Safety, Quality, Delivery and Production

Why you should choose ZF in Monterrey?

• Benefits above the law.
• According to policy, the company will provide car allowance.
• Annual medical checkup – according to local policy.

Be part of our ZF team as Production Manager and apply now!

What does DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) mean for ZF as a company?

At ZF, we continuously strive to build and maintain a culture where inclusiveness is lived and diversity is valued. We actively seek ways to remove barriers so that all our employees can rise to their full potential. We aim to embed this vision in our legacy through how we operate and build our products as we shape the future of mobility.