Transformation Program Manager Jobs in Manchester, TN

Your Contribution 

As a Maintenance Supervisor (Production Maintenance) reporting to the Head of Operations Support -Filters, you will be responsible to manage a team to achieve the goals of the plant while delivering operational improvements which will result in bottom line, quantified results. This role will focus is the cost optimization of MAHLE's manufacturing process through the strategic development and allocation of MAHLE's technical resources while supporting the creation of a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture.

This role is responsible to:

• Build and execute a lean, continuous improvement roadmap aligned with MPS (MAHLE Production System) principles, prioritizing highvalue opportunities and engaging crossfunctional teams at every level.
• Partner closely with plant leadership to drive cultural transformation, strengthening collaboration, ownership, and talent development across technical teams.
• Improve and simplify processes to enhance reliability, predictability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead and develop the Maintenance, HVAC, and Fluids teams, ensuring strong technical capability and high performance.
• Champion a disciplined, datadriven approach to process management, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and new program launch requirements.
• Serve as a catalyst for innovation, challenging the status quo, influencing stakeholders, and driving adoption of new ideas and technologies.
• Conduct indepth studies in cost, quality, productivity, flow, and rootcause analysis to identify and eliminate losses.
• Establish standards and policies for equipment selection, installation, modification, inspection, and maintenance, ensuring worldclass uptime and performance.
• Develop and manage operational and capital budgets to support profitability and longterm asset health.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies that strengthen cost competitiveness and operational capability.
• Maintain strong oversight of safety codes and compliance, ensuring a safe and hazardaware work environment.
• Direct technicians in executing projects that support plant goals in productivity, efficiency, scrap reduction, safety, and new product launches.
• Build and sustain maintenance strategies aligned with MPS standards.
• Perform additional responsibilities as needed to support plant success.

 Your Experience & Qualifications 

• Associates degree required. Bachelor's degree preferred
• 10 years of Production Maintenance experience required
• Assemble experience required, Plastic Injection Molding preferred
• Automotive manufacturing industry engineering experience strongly preferred
• Proven understanding & successful application of Continuous Improvement tools and methodologies including Lean and Six Sigma
• Knowledge of TPM, Predictive Maintenance, Reliability and Condition Monitoring Systems and Maintenance Strategy.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are required
• Strong understanding and control of safety codes to realize the impact of potential working hazards
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge required in computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint 

Our Offering 

We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with ongoing personal & career development opportunities. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles! 

After receiving your online application, the interview process will typically be a screening call followed by Personal Interview(s)  

For more information about MAHLE and what a career with us looks like for you, click here. and to learn more about our foundation owned technology group click here. 

#DiversityMatters with our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from all social, religious & ethnical backgrounds, disabilities both mental and physical, identities (gender) and neurodivergent people. 

MAHLE is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment-based non-immigrant and immigrant visas. However, as a global company, MAHLE offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website www.jobs.mahle.com