Production Area Manager

Valeo; Tuam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Valeo benefits

Job summary

Valeo in Ireland seeks an APU Manager to lead a production area, ensuring safety, quality and on-time delivery.

You will supervise a team, conduct appraisals, manage budgets, and drive Lean initiatives. This is a permanent full-time role in Tuam with a focus on SQCDM and customer satisfaction.

Join a multinational with opportunities for growth and development within a dynamic, culturally diverse workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large teams in a production environment.
• Ability to implement training plans and monitor competence.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and environmental rules.
• Proven track record in delivering SQCDM targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily, weekly and monthly production meetings and delegate tasks.
• Ensure health, safety, quality and environmental standards on the APU.
• Manage production performance and customer satisfaction, including margins.
• Oversee budget planning and allocate resources to stay within perimeter.
• Drive continuous improvement and Lean initiatives across the APU.
• Coordinate with support functions for maintenance and corrective actions.
• Prepare and communicate capacity to SC for SIOP/MPS.
• Lead new projects industrialization and start-ups.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Training planning

Safety compliance

Quality management

Continuous improvement

Budget management

Production planning

Problem solving

Job description

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