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Valeo

Automotive electrification, ADAS, interior lighting tech

APU Manager

Manufacturing & Production OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChangshu, Suzhou, Jiangsu, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Ensure new employees in the assigned perimeter complete the induction process.
  • Monitor team competencies and develop team autonomy through training plans and training implementation.
  • Ensure safety, work instructions, quality, and product-respect standards are followed during APU operations.
  • Apply standards of reaction rigorously and escalate according to standards.
  • Ensure enforcement of health, safety, and environmental rules.
  • Ensure curative and preventive equipment maintenance and sustainable ERIM deployment.
  • Define work standards with support functions.
  • Be accountable for customer satisfaction and for APU SQCDM performance and gross-margin profitability against targets and improvement goals.
  • Ensure optimal equipment use and assign and verify corrective actions for recurring problems with the APU and plant support departments.
  • Escalate to site level issues that cannot be resolved at APU level.
  • Validate the APU's demonstrated monthly capacity and communicate it to Supply Chain for SIOP/MPS.
  • Commit weekly to MPS and respect the daily MPS contract; when daily adherence deviates, take measures to meet the weekly MPS by week's end.
  • Lead workstation ergonomics risk analysis and elimination.
  • Analyze and resolve customer line returns for products from the APU in front of customers.
  • Manage the APU VPS deployment plan and P-30, ensuring ongoing VPS workshops to improve the APU.
  • Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities and set and achieve APU 5 axes targets.
  • Propose APU layout changes to simplify flows.
  • Prepare budget proposals, including training actions and investments.
  • Manage the APU budget, allocate appropriate resources within its budget perimeter, and implement corrective actions for compliance.
  • Be involved in industrialization of new projects before end phase 2, FPDRs, and SOPs, and facilitate proper start-ups.
  • Validate the Lean Process Design Checklist for new projects.
  • Cooperate with the department to identify environmental factors.
  • Cooperate with the EHS department on other environment-management work.

Responsibilities

  • Lead daily, weekly, and monthly meetings and organize delegation.
  • Conduct annual appraisals, salary reviews, career interviews, succession planning, and provide feedback.
  • Promote continuous improvement and responsibility for target achievement within the APU.
  • Perform daily on-the-job training of teams on implemented standards and methodologies.
  • Recognize and congratulate the team for improvements.
  • Ensure a positive social climate in the APU.
  • Lead daily APU QRQC covering safety, quality, direct labor efficiency, and maintenance.
  • 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 target SQCDM performance.

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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