For more than 50 years, Cannondale has been a leading innovator in the cycling world. As more riders of all ages and abilities get on the roads, trails, and streets than ever before, we're here to do the best work of our lives to push the greatest human-powered machine into the future each and every day. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce where every teammate can succeed as we inspire riders everywhere. Fueled by a free-thinking, always-game, got-your-back mentality, we ditched the rulebook and set forward on a path to make iconic bikes that simply work better. We look forward to the ride with you.
About the Role:
As Cannondale's Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, you'll lead a dynamic team across Manufacturing Engineering, Fit & Function, Single Cells, and Maintenance & Repair, driving performance, innovation, and continuous improvement. Reporting into the Almelo factory's Plant Manager, you'll play a critical role in optimizing manufacturing processes, introducing new technologies and equipment, and solving complex challenges that require both a strategic mindset and hands-on engineering expertise. With a helicopter view of operations and a deep understanding of our business, you'll be the key connector between engineering, production, and leadership, ensuring our manufacturing systems are efficient, scalable, and built for the future. This is an exciting opportunity for a problem-solver and team-builder who thrives in a fast-paced, technical environment and is passionate about shaping how things are made. Your leadership will not only help the factory reach its full potential but also foster a culture where employees feel motivated, engaged, and proud of their impact.
How You'll Make an Impact:
- Provides input to the strategic plan and based on this, develops an annual plan and is responsible for its execution and securing
- Responsible for the feasibility of all innovations and changes from both a technical and production perspective
- Responsible for advising on and implementing improvements and optimizations in cost, reliability, quality, safety, and energy consumption within the department
- Proactively builds and maintains contact with relevant internal stakeholders to ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of products
- Determines and helps implement company policies within the Operations department.
- Analyzes feedback from production, service, and complaints, and translates these into production improvements
- Follows developments and trends in the relevant area and translates this into solutions, services, and alternatives
- Leads, selects, develops, guides, and evaluates employees within the departments, ensuring optimal personnel planning and skilled personnel
- Solves complex problems that require a high-level perspective, deep expertise, and strong contextual understanding of the business
What You Bring to the Table:
- HBO (Bachelor)
- 3-5 years of experience
- Develops, improves, innovates, and implements processes, best practice methods, and/or systems
- Operates independently, in line with objectives, processes, procedures, policies, and budgets.
- Strong stakeholder management & Communication skills: Knows how and when to influence
- Strong management skills: ability to delegate, communicate organizational decisions, create good working atmosphere, provides constructive feedback and coaching
Some of our Great Benefits:
- Hybrid work environment
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Great discounts on company products
- Employee Wellness Program: Pon Fit
- A mix of casual yet professional culture
- Discount additional health insurance package
- Onsite gym (Almelo and Woudenberg)
- Travel reimbursement
- Collective Labour Agreement Metalektro
- Pension plan
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About the organization
As a proud member of the Pon Holdings family, Cannondale benefits from the strong foundation and extensive network of one of the Netherlands' largest family-owned businesses, as well as the largest bike portfolio in the world: Pon.Bike, including brands like Gazelle, Santa Cruz, Cervélo, Kalkhoff, Focus, Urban Arrow, Veloretti and Swapfiets. Being a part of Cannondale means being part of a dynamic and forward-thinking organization backed by the strength and stability of Pon Holdings.
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Cannondale we value a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, regardless of your gender or race, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Our DEI Mission Statement: At Cannondale, we are on a mission to ensure all members of the cycling community feel that they belong. Our commitment to celebrating individuality and differences extends beyond our diverse line up of bikes to our workplace culture, where we recognize and embrace the strengths and viewpoints of each team member, regardless of their background or identity. We are thankful for the feedback and perspectives that challenge us to create more inclusivity in this space and hold us accountable to making meaningful progress.
WE ARE A CYCLE FRIENDLY EMPLOYER
The cycle-friendly employer certification scheme was developed to establish a European standard for cycle friendly companies. The certification is intended to help European companies to improve the situation for employees that cycle to work. As an acknowledgement for our effort we received the certificate "cycle-friendly employer".
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