Continuous Improvement Manager

Short Company Description TE Connectivity is a global technology leader enabling a secure, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions have been proven in the most demanding environments, enabling advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy technology, data communications, and for the home. With approximately 85,000 employees, including more than 8,000 engineers, we work with customers in nearly 140 countries. TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS.

Requirements At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. Why You Should Join Reporting to Director of Global Continuous Improvement, the TEOA Global Manager will provide overall support for updating/ creating standards within the deployment and achievement of TEOA goals across all locations of the Sensors BU. This position is responsible for promoting and facilitating the successful implementation of TE Operating Advantage, allowing and enabling the business to achieve Hoshin goals and meet business objectives.

Your Main Tasks Support the TEOA attainment plan for the Sensor BU, including specific tools, metrics, star-level targets, key KPIs, and supporting actions required to achieve TEOA goals. Deliver training, coaching and counsel to all applicable sites and functions on TEOA tools deployment. Personally conduct transformation and other smaller productivity workshops to help the sites / functions learn and achieve improvement. Develop annual goal and achieve such as to the number of workshops to be accomplished by each region. Serve as the facilitator, gatherer, and scorekeeper of Sensors Operations KPIs. Revise and enhance existing KPI templates as necessary. Ensure timely reporting of such KPIs. Foster an environment of open collaboration with all sites in the region to advance TEOA and Operations performance improvement. Actively and openly provide feedback (including constructive push-back) on Operations functional direction and action plans. Lean Manufacturing & Continuous Improvement Leadership

• Lead Continuous Improvement initiatives for Manufacturing Engineering.
• Define and deploy Lean Manufacturing standards, methodologies and best practices.
• Drive the implementation and sustainability of Standard Work systems across plants.
• Guide productivity improvement programs focused on labor efficiency, waste reduction, flexibility and flow.
• Support deployment of TEOA and Smart Factory initiatives across manufacturing operations.

Labor & Manufacturing Efficiency

• Own the Labor & Manufacturing Efficiency pillar strategy for EMIA.
• Develop and deploy labor productivity systems, including Standard Work, DLE (Direct Labor Efficiency) and DLPI methodologies.
• Establish targets, governance processes and performance reviews for labor efficiency.
• Support plants in identifying and executing productivity opportunities.
• Provide coaching on labor cost optimization through Lean principles rather than headcount-driven approaches.

Capability Building & Organization Development

• Design and deliver Lean Manufacturing and Standard Work training programs.
• Develop internal Lean capability within Manufacturing Engineering and Operations teams.
• Establish and lead the EMIA Lean Referent Network.
• Coach engineers, plant leaders and CI practitioners on Lean deployment.
• Develop train-the-trainer programs and regional capability roadmaps.

Productivity Systems & Operational Excellence

• Lead deployment of productivity tools including:

• Standard Work

• QCO / SMED

• TPM

• Labor Efficiency

• Value Stream Design

• Layout for Flow

• TEPO

• Lean Automation Concepts

• Facilitate productivity workshops to improve manufacturing performance.

• Support implementation of best-practice manufacturing concepts across EMIA plants.

Key Deliverables

• Standard Work deployment roadmap.
• Labor Efficiency (DLE/DLPI) deployment and governance.
• Lean Industrial Design workshops and transformations.
• Manufacturing platform standardization.
• Lean capability development programs.
• Lean Referent Network management.
• Productivity workshops and implementation support.
• Best-practice manufacturing standards and playbooks.
• Regional performance reviews and continuous improvement governance.

Your Ideal Profile

• Technical Proficiency: Advanced competence in understanding full end-to-end aspects of operations, the product development lifecycle, and essential aspects of navigating a highly regulated environment
• Enable Change: Innovates to create productivity, commits to change across the organization identifies opportunities to streamline, and removes barriers to execution
• Bias for Action: Drives ownership, and solves problems to deliver results
• Collaborator and Influencer: Proven track record of forging excellent relationships across organizations and delivering senior level results
• Pace and Passion: Ability to work in a fast-paced, global, matrixed environment focused on achieving results, guided by TE behaviors
• Team Builder: With high cross-cultural awareness, strong listening skills, empowering leadership style, and a commitment to performance/professional development
• Agility and Resilience: Embeds a winning culture that is responsive and adaptable to change, collaborative yet accountable, setting a positive example.
• 5+ years leadership in a multi-national, product and technology development environment with preference for experience in related industries.
• Track record of delivering consistent and demonstrable year-over-year improvements aligned to business strategy
• Experience leading an organization on the continuous improvement journey from the initial stages of a structured business model to an optimized one
• Experience in design engineering and the product development stage gate process
• Proficiency in standard reporting/presentation and data analysis tools
• Experience in Six Sigma and Lean methodologies
• Languages: fluent English. Spanish and/or German is an advantage

Competencies SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)

About Te Connectivity TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

What Te Connectivity Offers We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to your changing life situation - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!

• Attractive compensation and benefits package
• Private medical care for the employee (medical insurance)
• Gift vouchers for Easter and Christmas
• Transport allowance
• Employee events
• Opportunity to improve qualifications and trainings
• Friendly onboarding and initial training
• Referral bonus for recommending a new employee
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) - voluntary, employee-led groups focused on shared experiences or interests

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com . If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.

Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.