Production Supervisor

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.

Ready to tackle the challenges of the vehicle of the future? Join Valeo and revolutionize the comfort and well-being of all passengers!

What you will win:

As part of a global community of talented people, you will grow and thrive working on advanced technologies for greener, safer and smarter mobility. Our company culture gives all our employees the opportunity every day to #Dare.Care.Share.

About the Role:

As a Production Supervisor, you will be responsible for supervising and coordinating the manufacturing operations and equipment of a variety of production processes. 

This will be night shift, 7:00pm-7:00am

Responsibilities Also Include:

Manage people

• Be responsible for induction of all newcomers in his/her perimeter (temporaries included). Ensure the organization and scheduling of training actions.

• Analyze flexibility and multi skills needs of their Autonomous Production Zone (APZ), and define training plans in order to develop team autonomy and improvement spirit.

• Monitor certification process for each operator and update in real time flexibility grid.

• Manage daily: absenteeism, holidays, safety rules enforcement, environment risk analysis, Autonomous Production Zone (APZ) communication & performance boards update.

• Ensure respect of standard stops (breaks, meetings) by checking systematically on genba, and validate operators working time.

• Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigor  and perform escalation according to standards.

• Follow up APZ main objectives in monthly meetings with all people under their responsibility.

• Is responsible for personnel involvement and ensures a positive social climate.

• Conduct operators’ annual appraisals, as well as salary review and career interviews.

 ​Maintain standards

• Perform On Job Training (OJT) of their teams every day on standards implemented.

• Ensure enforcement of health, safety, environmental & site rules for the APTs of its perimeter, and that anybody entering their perimeter respect the rules and standards of their perimeter.

• Ensure existence of updated working instructions for every station, including reworks.

• Ensure respect of all working standards (safety, work instructions, quality, 5S, respect of the product, OK start ...) during the operations and propose/ implement improvements.

• Define work standards with the help of support functions and operators.

• Ensure TPM standards are properly deployed and used : abnormalities detection (formalized on red tags), systematic inspection & regular cleaning of equipment by team, 1st levels of preventive maintenance, maintenance line QRQCs.

• Control regularly genba equipment performance (including cycle time measurements, and microstoppages observation sessions), and react.

• Make regularly time-measurements with main MUDA seeking

• Ensure that all displays of their perimeter (QCDM by APT, QCDM & communication areas at APZ level) are updated at end of shift, and make sure that workers have necessary material to do so.

Manage production

• Propose every week APZ headcounts & organization to the APU Manager, according to MPS.

• Ensure production, respecting Safety Quality Cost Delivery Motivation (SQCDM) & inventory targets.

• In case a detected problem cannot be solved by the APT, assign and check containment and corrective actions with APU support functions and / or management.

• Review daily all Quick Response Action Plans Board (QRAP) of their perimeter.

• React in case of issue & escalate issues at APU level when needed.

• Liaise with the Supply Chain team on MPS daily priorities.

• Respect daily the MPS contract.

• In case of daily MPS respect deviation, take necessary measures within the week, after validation by APU

• Manager, to have respected weekly MPS at the end of the week.

• Get involvement of support functions every time necessary to solve as fast as possible the issues identified by APTs.

• Monitor shift Quality Cost Delivery Motivation (QCDM )and ensure QCDM boards are updated.

• Make reports defined by site.
   

Manage Continuous Improvement

• Lead action plans to improve SQCDM performance (actual and targets), in coherence with APU & Plant, including productivity plans (P-30).

• Reach and maintain a dynamic and efficient Proposals of Improvements system.

• Participate in safety and environment risks reduction & lead line Safety QRQC for cat. 7 safety issues.

• Contribute to new equipment and processes start ups.

• Lead Zoning evolution and improvements by their team.

• Participate in APU QRQC: Quality, DL efficiency, Maintenance, prepare and come with necessary data for an efficient attendance.

• Pilot Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by APU Manager (Safety, Quality, DL efficiency, TRP, Maintenance).

• Prepare LLC & Kaizen Cards.

• Lead VPS workshops (flow analysis – MUDA hunting, 5S, Hoshin, TPM ...) and liaise with Site VPS Manager for training to methodologies; Participate in the weekly Site VPS committee, presenting regularly the genba status of workshops he/she is leading.

• Liaise with support functions to facilitate improvement actions within the APTs.

• Participate in budget preparation (headcounts, overheads, investments, P-30) and manage the budget of their  APZ.

• Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP, TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets

What You Should Have:

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent knowledge and demonstrated experience in lieu of education required; industrial engineering discipline preferred.

• You have excellent written and oral communication skills and a high degree of flexibility. Strong computer skills required. Automotive Lighting experience strongly preferred.

• You have a minimum of 3 years supervisory / management experience in automotive or a manufacturing environment.

Pay Information: 

Min: $80,200 / Mid: $90,500 / Max: $113,000

Join us!

Thanks to its strategy focused on innovation, Valeo aims at reducing CO² emissions and developing intuitive driving to propose greener, safer, and smarter mobility.  

The fantastic (r)evolution towards the vehicule of the future provides amazing career opportunities and challenging jobs!

Diversity by nature
At Valeo, innovation is driven by the diversity, authenticity and energy of its talents. You are looking for new technological and human adventures? Join Valeo and its more than 100.000 employees across the globe! More information about valeo : https://www.valeo.com

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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