Modern wire harness systems and exclusive vehicle interiors: The name DRÄXLMAIER stands for automotive innovations – products that enhance your driving experience. Every day, approximately 75,000 associates around the world cooperate to contribute their knowledge, skills and automotive passion toward this goal. Individuals, who like to take on responsibilities, use their creativity and contribute their ideas toward the common success. Individuals like you!

Plant Manager - Component Plant Hunedoara (m/f/d)

Job Req ID:  133554
Location: 

Hunedoara, RO, 331110

Work Type:  Full time
Contract Type:  unlimited

As Plant Manager, you will assume full responsibility for the DRÄXLMAIER plant in Hunedoara – a site with around 1,000 employees and a strong focus on injection molding and assembly for international OEMs. Your mission is to lead the plant operationally, establish clear structures, and drive its ongoing modernization and digital transformation.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

  • Full leadership responsibility for all employees and the site management team, both disciplinary and functional
  • P&L ownership, budget planning and control and optimization of cost and valuecreation structures
  • Ensuring highquality, stable and ontime production processes in line with customer requirements
  • Building clear workflows, advancing organizational development, and actively driving the digital transformation (including SAP S/4HANA)
  • Implementing Lean and Continuous Improvement initiatives (e.g. PDCA, Six Sigma) to sustainably increase productivity
  • Developing talent, strengthening leadership capability, and deriving sitespecific targets
  • Close collaboration with international DRÄXLMAIER plants and global functions

 

Candidate Profile:

 

  • Completed technical university degree (e.g. mechanical engineering), ideally with additional commercial training or corresponding professional background
  • Several years of leadership experience in a comparable role within the automotive supplier industry (Tier 1)
  • Strong expertise in injection molding and as well as automation and, ideally, tool technology in the thermoplastics or silicone sector
  • Proven competence in financial steering and P&L responsibility
  • Strong leadership and change management skills with a structured, handson and executiondriven approach
  • Willingness to relocate to the Hunedoara area and travel as required

 

Our Offer:

 

  • A key leadership position at a strategically important DRÄXLMAIER plant
  • Significant scope for shaping processes and structures during an ongoing modernization phase
  • Modern work equipment and the option of a local contract or expatriate arrangement
  • The opportunity to lead a high‑potential plant and its teams into the next phase of development

 

If you are an enthusiast person and you want to develop professionally in an international environment, please send us your application!

All candidates that fit the profile will be contacted in maximum 3 weeks.

 

Contact person: Yulia Vaygel
Contact details: YULIA.VAYGEL@DRAEXLMAIER.COM