APU Upstream Manager

Valeo Automotive (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Ichikoh Industries)

Valeo Automotive (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Ichikoh Industries) (Rayong, Thailand)

Rayong, Thailand

INDUSTRIES (THAILAND) CO., LTD. ICHIKOH continues to consistently provide the best and safest vision products in harmony with the design aspects of each individual vehicle, The excellence of the underlying technology is evidenced in the high praise and trust bestowed on the company from both domestic and overseas OEM manufacturers. Head lamps, rear combination lamps, door mirror etc. Located at Amata City, Rayong

About this position

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent mobility. The APU Upstream Manager will oversee team management, standards enforcement, production management, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure optimal performance and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Manage people
• Ensure that any new employee of his/her perimeter follows an Induction process.
• Monitor competences for his/her team and develops its autonomy (training plan building, follow-up & training actions implementation).
• Ensure working standards are respected on its APU during the operations (safety, work instructions, quality, respect of the product).
• Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigor (eg. KOSU) and perform escalation according to standards.
• Lead daily, weekly & monthly meetings, and organize delegation.
• Conduct annual appraisals, salary review, career interviews, succession planning & give feedback.
• Communicate a mindset of continuous improvement & responsibility vs. targets achievement inside its APU.
• Perform OJT of his/her teams every day on standards & methodologies implemented.
• Congratulate and recognize its team for improvements.
• Ensure a positive social climate on his/her APU.
• Manage standards
• Ensure enforcement of health, safety and environmental rules.
• Ensure curative & preventive maintenance of equipment & sustainable ERIM deployment.
• Define work standards with the help of support functions.
• Manage production
• Be responsible for customer satisfaction.
• Be accountable for SQCDM performance and profitability (gross margin) of his/her APU, in terms of targets achievement, and improvement.
• Ensure optimal use of equipment (TRP).
• Assign & check corrective actions on recurring problems with APU and Plant support departments.
• Escalate at Site level the issues that can’t be solved at APU level.
• Validate monthly the demonstrated capacity of his/her APU and communicate to SC for SIOP / MPS.
• Weekly commit on MPS.
• Respect daily the MPS contract.
• In case of daily MPS respect deviation, take necessary measures to have respected weekly MPS at end of the week.
• Manage continuous improvement
• Lead daily APU QRQC (Safety, Quality, Direct Labor efficiency, Maintenance).
• Lead workstation ergonomics risk analysis and elimination.
• Lead everyday genba activities with his/her team, as TOP 3 issues countermeasures review as for KOSU.
• Lead & review action plans to improve SQCDM performance (actual and targets).
• Be responsible for Customer Line Return analysis and solving for products from his/her APU in front of customers.
• 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.
• Promote the Valeo 5 axes in the daily activities, set and reach 5 axes targets of his/her APU.
• Propose APU lay out evolutions to simplify flows.
• Prepare a budget proposal (including training actions, investments).
• Manage the budget of his/her APU.

Requirements

• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Experience in production management and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Ability to analyze data and make informed decisions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in budget management and financial analysis.
• Familiarity with automotive industry standards and practices.