New

Manufacturing Manager

Molex
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Wisconsin, Hudson
May 10, 2025
Your Job Are you looking to make a connection to your career? Come to Molex where we create connections for life. We use innovation, engineering excellence, commitment to quality and reliability and superior customer experience to improve communications, elevate experiences, and engage and inspire people everywhere. Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle and medical. In this role, you will lead a production team to manufacture optical connectivity products employing fiber termination, die cutting, surface mount electronics, and light assembly technologies. This role is key to supporting the business unit's production objectives. What You Will Do Anticipate and lead change. Build a competitive environment that brings the greatest value to the business. Collaborate with engineering, quality, and materials teams to establish aggressive cost estimates for products within development projects that allow profitable business. Independently, or with an engineering team, identify new manufacturing methods and equipment that improve quality, throughput and cost of product. Develop manufacturing team to achieve high levels of contribution and self-actualization with the Principled Based Management framework. Work with individuals in and outside of operations to resolve quality issues. Implement and drive both corporate and site level key performance indicators to optimize manufacturing effectiveness and meet performance expectations through operational excellence. Transform plant practices to meet the needs of new products and technologies. Work with financial and management teams to execute strategy supporting profit and loss goals. Ensure compliance with all safety, financial, and environmental policies. Be key leader for site operations for customer and industry audits/visits Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) Bachelor's degree, technical field preferred. 5 years' experience in manufacturing environment. 2 years' supervisory experience. Strong written and verbal communication skills in a professional environment. Basic computer skills including Windows, Outlook, Word, and Excel. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Knowledge of supply chain management, including international sourcing. Financial modeling abilities to compare cost and value of manufacturing options. What Will Put You Ahead Fiber-optic connectivity production and/or engineering experience a plus Fundamental knowledge of lean manufacturing practices, proven record of execution a plus. Experience with ERP systems, SAP system experience preferred. For this role, we anticipate paying $140,000 - $185,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here. Who We Are At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu). #LI-RL1