Tooling Technician

Valeo; Chennai District; On-site; INR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo is seeking a Tooling Technician in Chennai to perform preventive maintenance, machining tasks, and safety-critical operations. You will report issues, maintain monitoring tools, and work to ensure compliance with environmental, energy, and safety standards.

Level-based responsibilities include selecting repair or machining strategies, ensuring reliability, and adapting schedules to workshop load, while maintaining product quality and deadlines.

Qualifications

• Experience in preventive maintenance and machining tasks.
• Ability to analyze operations and identify safety risks.
• Familiarity with environmental, energy and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Carry out preventive maintenance operations and scheduled machining tasks.
• Report choices and difficulties to supervisors.
• Provide and maintain activity monitoring tools.
• Analyze dangerous operations and define safety measures.

Skills

Preventive maintenance

Machining operations

Safety compliance

Education

Tools

Machining tools

Maintenance equipment

Job description

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.

Level 1

• Carry out preventive maintenance operations and scheduled machining operations.
• Report your choices and any difficulties to those in charge.
• Know how to carry out tests and control reports.
• Provide and maintain activity monitoring tools.
• Be able to analyze dangerous operations and define the means to ensure the safety of all
  

Level 2

• Define the best solution (repair or machining) and the necessary means taking into account production requirements (Quality and Deadlines)
• Propose changes to the maintenance ranges and manufacturing ranges.
• Know how to define the functional parts of the product and the mold.
• Take charge of corrective maintenance operations and all machining work in complete autonomy
• Transmits all the information necessary to monitor the activity.
  

Level 3

• Anticipate and propose reliability solutions in order to limit the risk of repair and machining costs.
• Carry out work with due regard for guarantee, functionality and compliance with the applicant’s requirements.
• Carry out work to improve the performance and lifespan of the equipment.
• Be able to manage emergencies and modify the schedule according to the load of the workshop.
• Be able to assess the need for equipment to meet production requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Level 1

• Respect and enforce all standards in terms of environmental management, energy and health and safety risk prevention and alert in the event of deviation.
• Comply with current policies and procedures.
• Participate in the continuous improvement process within the team, in particular through the emergence and realization of PAs (proposals for improvement).
• Respect the rules for respecting the product.

Level 2

• Be versatile within its scope (according to the versatility criteria defined on the site).

Level 3

• May be required to partially replace a higher qualification job.

Job:

Tooling Technician

Organization:

Tooling

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-06-19

_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_