APU Manager (Autonomous Production Unit)

Manage people

o Ensure that any new employee of his/her perimeter follows an Induction process.

o Monitor competences for his/her team and develops its autonomy (training plan building, follow-up & training actions implementation).

o Ensure working standards are respected on its APU during the operations (safety, work instructions, quality, respect of the product).

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

o Lead daily, weekly & monthly meetings, and organize delegation.

o Conduct annual appraisals, salary review, career interviews, succession planning & give feedback.

o Communicate a mindset of continuous improvement & responsibility vs. targets achievement inside its APU.

o Perform OJT of his/her teams every day on standards & methodologies implemented.

o Congratulate and recognize its team for improvements.

o Ensure a positive social climate on his/her APU.

Manage standards

o Ensure enforcement of health, safety and environmental rules.

o Ensure curative & preventive maintenance of equipment & sustainable ERIM deployment.

o Define work standards with the help of support functions.

Manage production o Be responsible for customer satisfaction.

o Be accountable for SQCDM performance and profitability (gross margin) of his/her APU, in terms of targets achievement, and improvement. o Ensure optimal use of equipment (TRP).

o Assign & check corrective actions on recurring problems with APU and Plant support departments.

o Escalate at Site level the issues that can’t be solved at APU level. o Validate monthly the demonstrated capacity of his/ her APU and communicate to SC for SIOP / MPS. o Weekly commit on MPS.

o Respect daily the MPS contract.

o In case of daily MPS respect deviation, take necessary measures to have respected weekly MPS at end of the week.

Manage continuous improvement

o Lead daily APU QRQC (Safety, Quality, Direct Labor efficiency, Maintenance).

o Lead workstation ergonomics risk analysis and elimination.

o Lead everyday genba activities with his/her team, as TOP 3 issues countermeasures review as for KOSU.

o Lead & review action plans to improve SQCDM performance (actual and targets).

o Be responsible for Customer Line Return analysis and solving for products from his/her APU in front of customers.

o Manage the VPS deployment plan & P-30 of his/her APU, ensuring that there are permanently VPS workshops ongoing to improve its APU, challenged by him/her.

o Promote the Valeo 5 axes in the daily activities, set and reach 5 axes targets of his/her APU.

o Propose APU lay out evolutions to simplify flows.

o Prepare budget proposal (including training actions, investments).

o Manage the budget of his/her APU and allocates the appropriate resources in respect with the budget perimeter. Implement necessary corrective actions for compliance.

Contribute to successful new projects

o Be involved in the industrialization of new projects (before end phase 2), FPDRs and SOPs and facilitate by his / her actions proper start ups.

o Validate the Lean Process Design Checklist for new projects

• Requirements:

- Experience in the automotive business

- minim 5 years in Production

- Engineering degree

- Advanced English

We Offer:

- meal tickets
- life and accident insurance
- medical insurance
- free transport from Timisoara and Giarmata

Company description:

Valeo is an independent industrial Group fully focused on the design, production and sale of components, integrated systems and modules for the automotive industry, mainly for CO2 emissions reduction, Valeo rangs amongst the world's top automotive suppliers for the Original equipment market and also for Aftermarket. In september 2005 Valeo Timisoara strated the production of headlamps which is part of the Valeo Visibility Systems business group. In 2011 Valeo Lighting Injection started his activity in a new site, built in Giarmata, Timis County.

Valeo Timisoara is divided in three business units: aftermarket, special product and OEM. In these business units we produce headlamps, foglamps, CHMSL lamps and truck headlamps.