Production Manager to our subsidiary in Boden

• Production Leadership & Customer-Focused Deliveries: Ensure high-quality deliveries through efficient production management and strong customer focus.
• Financial Responsibility & Cost Control: Oversee financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and ensuring profitability.
• Innovation & Operational Efficiency: Promote innovation and continuous operational efficiency in collaboration with internal stakeholders, including colleagues in Germany.
• Regulatory & ISO Compliance: Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and industry standards, including maintaining ISO certifications.
• Safety, Quality & Continuous Improvement: Implement and maintain robust processes for safety, quality, and continuous improvement (including preventive actions to avoid defects).

You are a workshop-minded professional with a machinist background and a genuine interest in industrial production and manufacturing operations. You bring practical knowledge from the shop floor, including familiarity with CNC programming, and you enjoy working in an environment where quality, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable. With at least 5 years of relevant experience, you have built a strong technical foundation across assembly and welding, while staying fully aligned with HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) requirements and robust quality routines.

Beyond the technical side, you also understand how production performance is measured and improved, supported by experience with workshop controlling and cost center reporting. You have prior leadership experience from production, manufacturing, or industrial services, and you are confident in leading, motivating, and developing employees to reach shared goals. Finally, you have a continuous improvement mindset and experience implementing new processes that strengthen efficiency and operational results.

We use our 150 years of experience and digital expertise to continuously deliver innovative products and processes to the industry. Our goal is to pave the way for a carbon‑neutral and sustainable metals industry. SMS is a leading partner for challenging industrial projects and supports customers throughout the lifecycle of their plants. With us you will find international career opportunities. As a global company we employ more than 14,400 people at over 100 locations. Our values — ACT, SHARE, CARE, INNOVATE and SUCCEED — have always been integral to our work and are the promise we make to our customers and colleagues today and in the future.