PLC Specialist (H/F)

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Ben Arous
In-Office
Mid level
Automotive
The Role
The PLC Specialist will design, program, and troubleshoot PLCs, manage automation projects, and ensure production efficiency while prioritizing safety and continuous improvement.
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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.

Mission  :

  • Be able to design and design the control part and program of the equipment, including the sequential chart (grafcet)

  • Participate actively to the automation roll-out plan of its entity, developing and fine-tuning automated stations

  • Deploy the digital applications of the Group linked to the Production & the Supply Chain, such as the MES deployment, regarding the connection of PLCs to the MES

  • Be able to troubleshoot and solve the machines’ reliability issues linked to PLC

  • Ensure a sustainable good working of PLCs and mitigate the risks linked to PLCs

Responsibilities :

      Industrialisation

  • Know and apply the  IProM procedure, including the Lean Process Design Methodology (for big automation projects)
  • Be able to do functional analysis
  • Analyse the operating and stopping modes of equipment
  • Apply standards in its area of expertise
  • Able to design the electrical and pneumatic plans of equipment
  • Support actively the ramp-up of new equipments to make them successful
  • To be able to create specifications in its area of expertise
  • Manage the subcontractors
  • Be able to create specifications in its area of expertise

 

      Production & Continuous Improvement

  • Monitor the performance (QCDM) of equipments to identify room for progress and implement progress actions in his field (for TRP, breakdown & microstoppages rate progress)
  • Perform continuous improvement of equipment of his perimeter (reliability, cost, performance)
  • Work on Cycle time reduction to solve bottlenecks, bring savings and optimize investments, improving the HMACPI of its entity.
  • Work on the identification and implementation of automation projects  
  • Support the production & maintenance departments, to improve the MTTR ( analysis, problem solving)
  • Act for a fast & cost-optimized connection of machines’ PLC to the MES, with error codes management
  • Be able to transfer knowledge to production and maintenance people for an improved reactivity (1st level)
  • Participle to APU QRQC, according to site organization & need
  • Work on obsolescence plans (identification & solving of issues)
  • Work on breakdowns risks mitigation plan (identification & implementation)
  • Be in contact with the suppliers (improvement, support)
  • Perform benchmarking and market analysis in order to remain aware of last evolutions, trends and integrate them in its mid-term actions

  Safety & environment

  • Ensure the respect of Safety and Environment directives, including LOTO.
  • Act permanently to reduce accident risks
  • Act to improve the 5S (including machines’ documentation) and react to issues.

Job:

PLC Specialist

Organization:

Site Process/Manufacturing Engineering

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2025-04-08

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

Top Skills

Lean Process Design Methodology
Mes
Plc
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The Company
Greensburg, IN
32,700 Employees
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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