APU Upstream Manager
About this position
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
Requirements
• Relevant experience in a managerial role within the automotive or technology sector.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Proficiency in performance management and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Ability to analyze data and make informed decisions.
• Experience in production management and customer satisfaction initiatives.
• Familiarity with budget preparation and financial performance analysis.