• Manage the APZ under his/her responsibility, in respect to the objectives assigned by the APU Manager.

• Be responsible for production in terms of SQCDM and target achievement.

• Be responsible for animating and managing the teams in terms of TQ, IP & VPS.

• Lead continuous improvement of his/her perimeter.

• Spend most of time genba and ensure that work standards and rules are applied in its perimeter

Manage people

• Be responsible for induction of all newcomers in his/her perimeter (temporaries included). Ensure the organization and scheduling of training actions.

• Analyse flexibility and multi skills needs of his/her APZ, and define training plans in order to develop team autonomy and improvement spirit.

• Monitor certification process for each operator and update in real time flexibility grid.

• Manage daily: absenteeism, holidays, safety rules enforcement, environment risk analysis, APZ communication & performance boards update.

• Ensure respect of standard stops (breaks, meetings) by checking systematically on genba, and validate operators working time.

• Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigor (eg. KOSU) and perform escalation according to standards.

• Follow up APZ main objectives in monthly meetings with all people under his/her responsibility.

• Is responsible for personnel involvement and ensures a positive social climate.

• Conduct operators’ annual appraisals, as well as salary review and career interviews.

Maintain standards

• Perform OJT of his/her teams every day on standards implemented.

• Ensure enforcement of health, safety, environmental & site rules for the APTs of its perimeter, and that anybody entering his/her perimeter respect the rules and standards of his/her perimeter.

• Ensure existence of updated working instructions for every station, including reworks.

• Ensure respect of all working standards (safety, work instructions, quality, 5S, respect of the product, OK start ...) during the operations and propose/ implement improvements.

• Define work standards with the help of support functions and operators.

• Ensure ERIM standards are properly deployed and used : abnormalities detection (formalized on red tags), systematic inspection & regular cleaning of equipment by team, 1st levels of preventive maintenance, maintenance line QRQCs.

• Control regularly genba equipment performance (including cycle time measurements, and microstoppages observation sessions), and react.

• Make regularly time-measurements with main MUDA seeking as per KOSU implementation guide.

• Ensure that all displays of his/her perimeter (QCDM by APT, QCDM & communication areas at APZ level) are updated at end of shift, and make sure that workers have necessary material to do so.

Manage production

• Propose every week APZ headcounts & organization to the APU Manager, according to MPS.

• Ensure production, respecting SQCDM & inventory targets.

• In case a detected problem cannot be solved by the APT, assign and check containment and corrective actions with APU support functions and / or management.

• Review daily all QRAP of his/her perimeter.

• React in case of issue & escalate issues at APU level when needed.

• Liaise with the Supply Chain team on MPS daily priorities.

• Respect daily the MPS contract.

• In case of daily MPS respect deviation, take necessary measures within the week, after validation by APU

• Manager, to have respected weekly MPS at the end of the week.

• Get involvement of support functions every time necessary to solve as fast as possible the issues identified by APTs.

• Monitor shift QCDM and ensure QCDM boards are updated.

• Make reports defined by site.

Manage Continuous Improvement

• Lead action plans to improve SQCDM performance (actual and targets), in coherence with APU & Plant, including productivity plans (P-30).

• Reach and maintain a dynamic and efficient Proposals of Improvements system.

• Participate in safety and environment risks reduction & lead line Safety QRQC for cat. 7 safety issues.

• Contribute to new equipment and processes start ups.

• Lead Zoning evolution and improvements by his/her team.

• Participate in APU QRQC: Quality, DL efficiency, Maintenance, prepare and come with necessary data for an efficient attendance.

• Pilot PDCA / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by APU Manager (Safety, Quality, KOSU-DL efficiency, Maintenance).

• Prepare LLC & Kaizen Cards.

• Lead VPS workshops (flow analysis – MUDA hunting, 5S, Hoshin, TPM ...) and liaise with Site VPS Manager for training to methodologies; Participate in the weekly Site VPS committee, presenting regularly the genba status of workshops he/she is leading.

• Liaise with support functions to facilitate improvement actions within the APTs.

• Participate in budget preparation (headcounts, overheads, investments, P-30) and manage the budget of his/her APZ.

• Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP, TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets.

Education:

• Engineering degree or Experience

• 2 years degree diploma at least

Professional experience:

Experience in manufacturing, or process engineering – methods (2-3 years), or beginner with previous training in manufacturing

Languages: English conversational level

Other specifications:

• Excellent oral communication skills and a high degree of flexibility

• Problem solving skills using tools such as PDCA, FTA, and process mapping

• Genba oriented

• Proactive