APU Manager

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Chon Buri
Senior level
Automotive
The Role
The APU Manager oversees an automotive production unit, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and operational standards. Responsibilities include team management, performance evaluation, capacity validation, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement initiatives. The role demands effective communication, strategic planning, and budget management to enhance productivity and align with company goals.
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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 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 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:

2025-02-24

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

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The Company
Greensburg, IN
32,700 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1923

What We Do

Valeo is an automotive supplier and partner to all automakers worldwide. As a
technology company, Valeo proposes innovative products and systems that
contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions and to the development of intuitive
driving. In 2020, the Group generated sales of 16.4 billion euros and invested 12% of
its original equipment sales in Research and Development. At December 31, 2020,
Valeo had 187 plants, 20 research centers, 43 development centers and
15 distribution platforms, and employed 110,300 people in 33 countries worldwide.
Valeo is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.

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