Maintenance Engineer

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

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

Chonburi, 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

The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for managing maintenance standards, implementing preventive maintenance plans, and leading continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment reliability and availability.

Responsibilities

• Manage standards
• Create and update maintenance work instructions for its perimeter, using e-WorkStation & PM+
• Prepare and implement preventive maintenance plans, including standard times for each task
• Train and coach the production teams in the proper apply of preventive maintenance tasks
• Ensure the availability of the equipments & toolings documentation
• Perform OJT on standards implemented
• Define standards regarding the supply and inventory of spare parts and material needed for maintenance and participate to the sourcing of Maintenance spare parts suppliers
• Ensure, together to the Safety network, the fulfilment of the Group Directives regarding Health & Safety and Safety of buildings and installations in its scope
• Lead action plans to improve Maintenance KPIs (TRP, breakdown %, micro stoppages & technical slowdowns, MTTR, MTBF), maximizing equipment availability for production.
• Act to improve the reliability of equipments & toolings (obsolescence action plan, back-ups implementation, etc.)
• Participate to equipment performance control & improvement, for instance by participating to cycle time measurements and micro-stoppages observation sessions
• Participate to Maintenance & ERIM workshops; Permanently promote ERIM and act to make it work
• Participate to Maintenance QRQC & Weekly TPM/TRP progress meetings
• Involve in troubleshooting on manufacturing equipment with malfunction from electrical or mechanical aspect; Support the teams in charge on the major technical issues
• Pilot PDCA / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by Maintenance Manager
• Prepare LLC & Kaizen Cards
• Ensure proper maintenance records
• Participate to the installation and commissioning of new manufacturing equipments, as per the IProM procedure, including of safety validation of equipments; and to potential refurbishments of manufacturing equipments
• Be involved in EHS and productivity improvement activity
• Share and transfer know-how
• Develop and maintain knowledge of debug and troubleshooting, including safety requirements; capitalize lessons learned
• Involve in process improvement and productivity improvement activity
• Act to minimize the equipment non-availability
• Define and lead actions to avoid breakdowns’ recurrence
• Proactively participate to the SAP PM+ implementation project and act for added-value use of PM+
• Act to improve the Maintenance Organization and performance of its entity; propose improvements
• Participate to maintenance budget preparation & propose potential organization improvements
• Lead actions to reduce the total Maintenance costs participating as contributor of P-30
• Participate, together with the Purchasing network, to the preparation of the yearly contracts regarding critical spare parts provision and overheads

Requirements

• Engineering degree with ideally a technical skills
• At least 3 years in industrial or process or maintenance activities
• PLC skills
• Knowledge of robotics and automation engineering
• Good Lean and Kaizen know