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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 three segments: Outdoor&Bags (e.g. equipment for cycling, water and winter sports, roof boxes, bike trailers, baby joggers, laptop and camera bags, backpacks and cases for mobile handheld devices) and Specialty (snow chains and pick-up truck tool boxes).

Our products are sold in 135 markets globally. Thule Group has approximately 2,200 employees at 10 production facilities and more than 35 sales offices worldwide. Net sales for 2013 amounted to 4.3 billion. For more information, please visit www.thulegroup.com. Thule Sweden AB is based in Hillerstorp and develops, manufactures and distributes roof racks, ski carriers and bike carriers.

For our facility in Hillerstorp we are looking for a successful and dynamic Production Manager who will lead, inspire and develop our employees in our Assembly Department.
In Hillerstorp we assemble the roof racks that have become synonymous with Thule's strong global brand. Right now we are investing strategically to expand our operations. As our new production manager you will be key in leading this challenging change process.

Your task will be to lead and develop employees towards new, ambitious targets. You will get the opportunity to create a strong department in cooperation with your team leaders. The challenge is multifaceted. Together with your employees, you are expected to meet high delivery requirements in a segment with strong seasonal fluctuations, in parallel with the implementation of a new generation of products. Therefore, you also have an important mission in continuing to build a positive culture and team spirit based on participation and involvement. You run the department's ongoing continuous improvement efforts, as well as evaluate and develop processes towards a standardized and efficient way of working. As production manager for the assembly department you are a part of the factory's management team and report to our Factory Manager.

We offer you a unique opportunity to create visible results and believe that the right candidate has strong leadership capabilities, who can combine a clear and well-structured leadership with the ability to inspire and enthuse others. We want you to have several years of experience and proven success in leading and developing a production department and its employees. As a person you are eager to move forward and always improve – and you gladly share this ambition and energy to others. You thrive in an organization with high speed and rapid changes. You are focused and result-oriented. We prefer that you have experience from working with the Lean-philosophy and a degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent. Good knowledge of the MS Office suit is a must, as well as a good level of Swedish and English in speech and writing.

Thule is a strong value-driven company. We Believe That Our employees Should be Able to identify themselves with our motto Active Life -Simplified. For us this means that you are curious, enjoy taking upon challenges and that you live an active life. In reward we offer a result oriented environment full of energy and speed plus the fact that having fun is part of our DNA.