APU Quality Engineer

About Valeo

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Key Responsibilities

Manage People

• Be responsible for induction of all newcomers in perimeter (temporaries included)
• Ensure the organization and scheduling of training actions
• Analyse flexibility and multi skills needs of APZ, and define training plans to develop team autonomy and improvement spirit
• Monitor certification process for each operator and update flexibility grid in real time
• 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 and perform escalation according to standards
• Follow up APZ main objectives in monthly meetings with all people under responsibility
• Conduct operators' annual appraisals, as well as salary review and career interviews

Maintain Standards

• Perform OJT of teams every day on standards implemented
• Ensure enforcement of health, safety, environmental & site rules for APTs, and that anybody entering perimeter respects the rules and standards
• 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 operations and propose/implement improvements
• Define work standards with the help of support functions and operators
• Ensure TPM standards are properly deployed: abnormalities detection, systematic inspection & regular cleaning of equipment, 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
• Ensure that all displays (QCDM by APT, QCDM & communication areas at APZ level) are updated at end of shift

Manage Production

• Propose every week APZ headcounts & organization to the APU Manager, according to MPS
• Ensure production, respecting SQCDM & inventory targets
• Assign and check containment and corrective actions with APU support functions and/or management when problems cannot be solved by the APT
• Review daily all QRAP of 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; take necessary measures to have respected weekly MPS at the end of the week
• Get involvement of support functions to solve issues identified by APTs as fast as possible
• 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 team
• Participate in APU QRQC: Quality, DL efficiency, Maintenance; prepare and come with necessary data for efficient attendance
• Pilot PDCA / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by APU Manager (Safety, Quality, DL efficiency, TRP, 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
• 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 APZ
• Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP, TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets

What We Offer

• Join one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
• A multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
• More than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries with lots of opportunity for career growth
• A business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact of its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development