Production Manager

Thule Group is a world leader in products that make it easy to bring the things you care for — easily, securely and in style — when living an active life. Under the motto Active Life, Simplified. — we offer products within Sport&Cargo Carriers (e.g. roof racks, roof boxes and carriers for transporting cycling, water and winter sports equipment, and rooftop tents mounted on a car), Active with Kids (e.g. bicycle trailers, buggies and child bike seats), RV Products (e.g. awnings, bike racks and tents for motorhomes and caravans) and Packs, Bags & Luggage (e.g. hiking backpacks, luggage and camera bags).


Thule Group has about 2,300 employees at 9 production facilities and 35 sales offices worldwide. The Group’s products are sold in 140 markets and in 2019, sales amounted to SEK 7 billion.


www.thulegroup.com




Production Manager to Thule Group in Hillerstorp

We are now looking for a successful leader with several years of experience from managing production.

In the Hillerstorp plant we assemble the roof racks that is one of our core products within the company and now there is an opportunity to lead and develop the production through an active continuous improvement (CI) work. One of the main goals, will be, together with others, to continue develop the production area but also securing a safe work through an active risk-assessments work. Besides this, your tasks will be managing six Teamleaders in their day to day fulfillment process, improving culture and motivate staff to be a part of this, capacity planning, capacity bottleneck solving but also together with maintenance responsible for equipment availability.

The right candidate for this position, we believe has a strong self-drive with ability to challenge themselves and others around them. We want you to have several years of experience and proven success in managing production. A good communicating, entrepreneurial and pro-active person will thrive in this type of position. You also will thrive if you prefer an organization with high speed and rapid changes, have a hands-on approach and are ambitious. We prefer that you have experience working with Lean-philosophy and a degree within mechanical engineering or equivalent. As a person you are highly motivated, positive and having a sense of humor. Mandatory is good knowledge of MS Office and that you have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal in Swedish and English.

We believe in strong team work both within your own team but also across teams. We strive to be an open and curious organization, sharing our knowledge and inspiring one another. Within Thule Group you will find people who have a passion for the products we make and the outdoor company we are. We share the same values and we like to have fun. All of our employees have a joint responsibility to maintain that spirit and contribute to it.

For further questions regarding this position, please contact Site Manager, Kristian Fältengård, 0370-256 70. For further information about the recruitment process please contact HR Manager Operations, Mateo Condric, 0370-254 80.