Production Engineering Team Leader

About the role

LEONI is seeking a Production Engineering Team Leader to head the Main Harness unit. The role involves overseeing engineering activities, ensuring compliance with standards, and driving continuous improvement within a fast‑paced automotive wiring environment.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and supervise the Production Engineering Main Harness organization, meeting defined objectives and KPIs.
• Identify improvement opportunities, provide consulting, and enhance service delivery.
• Ensure adherence to standards, governance, and process execution.
• Plan and coordinate team activities to cover all production stages and respond to internal requests.
• Define team members’ objectives, tasks, and responsibilities, and monitor performance.
• Assess training and development needs, support professional growth, and facilitate knowledge transfer.
• Implement measures to boost team performance, organizational flexibility, diversity, succession planning, coaching, and change management.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• At least 3 years of experience in a relevant engineering department.
• Minimum 2 years in leadership or project management roles.
• Strong leadership with a focus on employee coaching and development.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment.

Required skills