Valeo

Automotive electrification, ADAS, interior lighting tech

Production Area Manager

Manufacturing & Production OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeTuam, Co. Galway, IrelandNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Responsibilities

Ensure that each new employee in the area completes an induction process.
Monitor team competencies and develop team autonomy through training-plan development, follow-up, and implementation of training actions.
Ensure that safety, work-instruction, quality, and product-respect standards are followed during operations in the APU.
Ensure standards of reaction are applied rigorously, including KOSU, and escalate according to standards.
Lead daily, weekly, and monthly meetings, and organize delegation.
Conduct annual appraisals, salary reviews, career interviews, and succession planning, and provide feedback.
Promote continuous improvement and responsibility for achieving targets within the APU.
Train teams daily on implemented standards and methodologies through on-the-job training.
Recognize and congratulate the team for improvements, and maintain a positive social climate in the APU.
Enforce health, safety, and environmental rules.
Ensure corrective and preventive equipment maintenance and sustainable ERIM deployment.
Define work standards with support functions.
Manage production and be responsible for customer satisfaction.
Be accountable for the APU’s SQCDM performance and gross-margin profitability, including target achievement and improvement.
Ensure optimal use of equipment (TRP).
Assign and check corrective actions for recurring problems with the APU and Plant support departments.
Escalate to the Site level issues that cannot be resolved at the APU level.
Validate the APU’s demonstrated capacity monthly and communicate it to Supply Chain for SIOP/MPS.
Commit to MPS weekly and meet the daily MPS contract.
When daily MPS compliance deviates, take measures to ensure weekly MPS compliance by the end of the week.
Lead daily Production Area QRQC activities covering safety, quality, direct-labor efficiency, and maintenance.
Lead workstation ergonomics risk analysis and elimination.
Lead daily genba activities with the team, including review of countermeasures for the top three issues, as for KOSU.
Lead and review action plans to improve actual and targeted SQCDM performance.
Analyze and resolve Customer Line Returns for products from the Production Area with customers.
Manage the VPS deployment plan and P-30 for the Production Area, ensuring ongoing Lean workshops to improve the area and challenging the team on progress.
Promote Valeo’s five axes in daily activities and set and achieve five-axes targets for the Production Area.
Propose Production Area layout changes to simplify flows.
Prepare a budget proposal, including training actions and investments.
Manage the Production Area budget, allocate appropriate resources within the budget perimeter, and implement corrective actions to ensure compliance.
Participate in industrialization of new projects before the end of phase 2, FPDRs, and SOPs, and facilitate successful start-ups.

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.

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 Production Area 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 Production Area in front of customers.
Manage the VPS deployment plan & P-30 of his/her Production Area, ensuring that there are permanently Lean workshops ongoing to improve its Production Area, challenged by him/her.
Promote the Valeo 5 axes in the daily activities, set and reach 5 axes targets of his/her Production Area.
Propose Production Area lay out evolutions to simplify flows.
Prepare a budget proposal (including training actions, investments).
Manage the budget of his/her Production Area and allocates the appropriate resources in respect with the budget perimeter. Implement necessary corrective actions for compliance.

Contribute to successful new projects

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

Job:

APU Manager

Organization:

Production

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-09-02

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will 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... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com

About the Company

Valeo

Automotive electrification, ADAS, interior lighting tech

Valeo creates technology for automakers to make cars cleaner, safer, and smarter, focusing on four areas: electrification, driving assistance, reinvented interior experiences, and lighting. Its products combine electrical systems, sensors, software, and lighting that are designed, manufactured, and integrated into vehicles to enable electric propulsion, automated driving features, smarter interiors, and advanced illumination. The company differentiates itself by being a global industrial and technology leader with a large manufacturing footprint and a broad, cross‑domain portfolio across mobility transformation. Valeo’s goal is to help the transportation system shift toward cleaner, safer, and smarter mobility worldwide.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 1923

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