Manufacturing Engineering Eastern Europe & France Director (m/f)
a sustainable future.
Together, We Shape the Future
a sustainable future.
Together, We Shape the Future
The role:
This is a highly visible leadership role with strategic responsibility for Manufacturing Engineering across sites in Eastern Europe & France. The successful candidate will drive, automation strategy, industrial engineering standards, CAPEX execution, and manufacturing transformation initiatives while building a strong regional engineering culture.
This role is in Swiebodzice (Poland). You could work in Hybrid mode. The role requires several business trips per year.
What you will be responsible for:
- Leadership and organizational Development of Manufacturing Engineering Teams in Eastern Europe & France
- Define Manufacturiong Strategy and automation
- Ensure all safety-related actions requiring technical solutions are implemented consistently throughout the region in close collaboration with HSE teams
- control regional CAPEX projects from concept development to successful operational handover
- Enforce best-practice sharing among manufacturing sites regarding technical solutions, automation concepts, equipment standards, and process improvements
- Ensure time studies are executed according to recognized industrial engineering standards such as REFA and MTM
- Ensure accuracy and consistency of manufacturing master data including BOMs, routings, labor standards, and ERP-related production data.
About you:
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Extensive leadership experience in Manufacturing Engineering within an international industrial environment.
- Strong background in automation, manufacturing transformation, and industrial digitalization.
- Proven experience leading CAPEX investments and complex cross-site engineering projects.
- Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering methods, and production systems.
- Experience with ERP systems, MES platforms, and manufacturing automation technologies.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Fluent English and Polish language skills; additional French language are advantageous.
- Willingness to travel across regional manufacturing sites.
What we offer YOU:
- Attractive remuneration conditions (basic salary and annual bonus);
- Social benefits;
- Stable work in an international and prospering company;
- Stable employment - based on a full-time employment contract;
- Work from Monday to Friday, flexible working hours, possibility of hybrid work;
- Profits for the employee's recommendation under the Recommendation Program;
- Luxmed medical care financed by the employer;
- Multisport card co-financed by the employer.
At Kelvion we thrive on collaboration, embracing diversity of thought, and valuing every voice. Within Kelvion creativity shines because people are listened too, their contributions recognized, and their ideas welcomed. Our flexible approach to the way we work, places peoples’ health and satisfaction as a priority, enhancing engagement and fostering career opportunities. We empower engaged individuals to grow, progress and carve their own paths within the company.
Together, We Shape the Future