- Lead daily production activities across assembly, lapping, testing, and related manufacturing operations to ensure safety, quality, delivery, and productivity objectives are achieved.
- Lead, coach, and support production leaders and manufacturing employees, fostering a culture of accountability, engagement, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Production Control, and Maintenance teams to establish priorities and ensure effective execution of production plans.
- Coordinate mechanical assembly and testing activities to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable manufacturing operations while maintaining the highest quality standards.
- Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with applicable safety, quality, and operational requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on operational excellence, waste reduction, quality enhancement, and process efficiency.
- Monitor operational performance metrics and implement sustainable corrective actions to improve productivity, quality, and delivery performance.
- Support new product introduction and production ramp-up activities through close collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams.
- Evaluate manufacturing methods, process capability, equipment utilization, and resource allocation to improve operational effectiveness.
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across departments to ensure alignment and successful execution of business objectives.
- Support operational planning and resource management activities while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity, and overall manufacturing performance.
- Develop and implement long-term improvement initiatives that enhance customer satisfaction, operational capability, and team effectiveness.
- Experience leading manufacturing, production, or operations activities within an industrial environment.
- Experience managing and developing teams while creating an inclusive, high-performing work environment.
- Knowledge of mechanical manufacturing processes, assembly operations, testing activities, and production workflows.
- Ability to effectively collaborate across multiple functions, including engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and manufacturing engineering.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with the ability to balance competing priorities in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
- Understanding of production planning, quality systems, process controls, and operational performance management.
- Effective communication skills in English and Italian.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and ERP systems.
- Commitment to maintaining a safe, collaborative, and continuous improvement-focused workplace.
- Background in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Industrial Technology, or a related technical field.
- Experience within project-based, engineered-to-order, or manufacture-to-order production environments.
- Experience with valves, flow control products, industrial equipment, or other complex mechanical products.
- Knowledge of assembly, testing, machining, fabrication, or metal-processing manufacturing environments.
- Experience supporting new product introduction, production scale-up, or operational growth initiatives.
- Training or practical experience in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.
- Exposure to industries such as oil and gas, energy, process automation, pharmaceutical, or related industrial sectors.
WHY EMERSON
Our Commitment to Our People
At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.
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ABOUT EMERSON
Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.
With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.
We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!
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Skills Required
- Experience leading manufacturing, production, operations, or value stream activities in an industrial environment
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate activities across multiple functions
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes, operational performance management, and continuous improvement principles
- Understanding of quality systems, process controls, and production planning practices
- Ability to analyze operational challenges and implement practical performance-improvement solutions
- Effective communication skills in English and Italian
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and ERP systems
- Commitment to maintaining a safe, collaborative, and inclusive workplace
- Background in Mechanical Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, or a related technical field
- Experience in a manufacture-to-order or engineered-to-order environment
- Knowledge of machining, fabrication, assembly operations, or metal processing environments
- Training or practical experience in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies
- Experience leading operational transformation, productivity improvement, or value stream optimization initiatives
Emerson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Emerson and has not been reviewed or approved by Emerson.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs have been strengthened with a 401(k) plus company-supported contributions such as profit sharing and a recent cash-balance transition for certain participants. These features are positioned as differentiators among large industrial peers.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan introduced in 2026 enables discounted share purchases via payroll deductions. This adds an accessible ownership element to the total rewards mix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes PTO, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave within a broad benefits suite. Coverage breadth aligns with large-employer norms across locations, though specifics vary.
Emerson Insights
What We Do
At Emerson, we’re passionate about what we do. By fusing decades of technology and engineering expertise, Emerson continues to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges with innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. We recruit the greatest talent and apply the best technologies to benefit our customers worldwide. Automation Solutions is a leader in helping process and discrete manufacturers automate and optimize production processes through our best-in-class technologies and industry expertise. Commercial & Residential Solutions develops technologies and services that improve human comfort, safeguard food, protect the environment, enable sustainable food waste disposal, and support efficient construction and maintenance of buildings and municipal infrastructure. Emerson has a wide range of industry knowledge, manufacturing expertise, and technological innovation around the world. Join our next generation of leaders today.
