Jr. Executive - Production

Valeo; Pune District; On-site; INR 720,000 - 880,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo in Pune is seeking a hands-on operational leader to oversee APZ teams, manage daily production, and drive SQCDM performance. You will coordinate inductions, training plans, and performance reviews, while ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards. The role emphasizes continuous improvement through TPM, 5S, and KPI governance. You will work with support functions to resolve issues quickly and maintain updated displays and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Induct newcomers and schedule training actions.
• Monitor safety, quality and environment rules on genba.
• Conduct annual appraisals and salary reviews.
• Maintain updated working instructions for each station.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives and TPM practices with the team.
• Coordinate with APZ and APU to resolve issues and drive productivity.

Job description

Manage people

• Be responsible for induction of all newcomers in his/her perimeter (temporaries included). Ensure the organization and scheduling of training actions.
• Analyse flexibility and multi skills needs of his/her 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, 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 his/her 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 OJT of his/her teams every day on standards implemented.
• Ensure enforcement of health, safety, environmental & site rules for the APTs of its perimeter, and that anybody entering his/her perimeter respect the rules and standards of his/her 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 his/her 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 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 QRAP of his/her perimeter.
• React in case of issue & elevate 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
• Get involvement of support functions every time necessary to solve as fast as possible the issues identified by APTs.
• Monitor shift 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 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 his/her team.
• Participate in APU QRQC: Quality, DL efficiency, Maintenance, prepare and come with necessary data for an efficient attendance.
• Pilot 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 his/her APZ.
• Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP, TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets.