Production Manager Karlskrona

Textilia Tvätt & Textilservice AB · Full-time

Lyckebyvägen 7, Karlskrona, Sweden

Have you ever been in contact with healthcare? Stayed at a hotel, eaten at a restaurant, or worked in a laboratory? Then you've probably encountered Textilia, even if you didn't realize it. We deliver laundry and textile services to customers with high demands for sustainability, service, quality, and hygiene. We are a company in constant development, and here you get to be part of driving that development forward – together for a cleaner tomorrow. About the Role As Production Manager at Textilia Karlskrona, you'll be a key player who leads and motivates our employees toward shared goals. You balance our customers' high demands and unique wishes with efficiency and a healthy, developmental work environment. Together with the local management team, you bear clear responsibility for our production and success. You will be part of the local management team and report to the unit's site manager. To succeed in the role of Production Manager, we'd like to see that you have strong self-leadership and work structured with order and organization in your daily planning. This means you purposefully prioritize and follow up on your tasks, maintain good overview of ongoing processes, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. Your proactive approach contributes to us reaching our goals together and ensures efficient, safe, and continuous production. You work according to our leadership philosophy of helping yourself and others feel good at work, challenging and developing yourself and others, and ensuring you and your team accomplish the right things with balance in both the short and long term. Key Responsibilities Drive toward clearly defined goals in Productivity, HRO (LEAN, 5S), customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, sustainability, and efficiency. Plan, lead, and distribute your team's daily tasks Inspire and coach your employees Drive improvement work within your own and related processes Work on environmental, occupational health, and fire safety matters Personnel development, staffing, and psychosocial work environment In collaboration with your team, work to keep production and distribution disruptions to a minimum Who Are You? The most important thing to succeed in the role is your personal drive, your ability to lead and inspire others, and your collaboration skills. We're looking for someone with documented leadership experience where you've demonstrated the ability to lead, motivate, and develop teams toward shared goals. You have an understanding of production planning and have previous experience with it. We believe you have a technical background, preferably in production or engineering, but even more important are your personal qualities. You bring an open and inclusive leadership style to the role, where you actively encourage dialogue and collaboration. You understand the importance of a standardized and proactive approach to avoid operational disruptions. Your experience should include creating an inspiring work environment where you've actively contributed to employee development and performance. You have experience with process optimization and ideally LEAN and 5S. You're motivated by teamwork and see the group as a natural part of success. You're comfortable using computers and have experience with MS Office, MPS systems, and Maintmaster is highly desirable. You have strong communication skills in Swedish and English. You have high standards for order and organization in all aspects of your work. Other Information About the Position Initially a 6-month fixed-term contract with the intention of transitioning to a permanent position. Unregulated working hours. Working conditions according to collective agreement, individual salary setting. We conduct background checks. Recruiting and staffing agencies are kindly asked not to apply. Application Apply today! The application deadline is September 30, but the position may be filled earlier. With us, you can develop both yourself and the company At Textilia, we believe in development – both for the individual and for the business. When you grow in your role, we grow as a company. That's why you receive great trust, clear frameworks, and supportive leadership to help you take the next step. We're driven by a shared purpose and values of commitment, innovative thinking, and business focus. At our company, work isn't governed by unnecessary rules, but by judgment, responsibility, and the desire to find smarter solutions. We believe in learning from experience – even when something doesn't go right from the start. Our organization is built on trust and responsibility. With a flat structure and decentralized decision-making, every employee has the opportunity to influence – both the everyday and the future. This is how we develop Textilia, together. Learn more about what it's like to work for us at textilia.se/jobb About Textilia Textilia is a Scandinavian group with over 2,600 employees providing nationwide laundry and textile services. In Sweden, we operate twelve laundries – from Boden in the north to Malmö in the south – with the Swedish office in Örebro. With more than 70 years of experience, we ensure that healthcare, industry, hotels, and restaurants have access to clean and reliable textiles every day. We're proud to be a workplace where people from over 40 nationalities work together, with an equal gender distribution in both operations and management. That defines our culture – and strengthens us. As one of the first in the industry, we recycle discarded textiles on a large scale. It's part of our long-term mission to create a cleaner tomorrow.