APU Manager

Valeo; San Luis Potosí; Presencial; MXN 714,000 - 1,072,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading automotive supplier in San Luis Potosí seeks a dynamic manager to oversee team operations and production standards. The successful candidate will lead the induction of new employees, ensure compliance with safety regulations, and drive continuous improvement within the manufacturing processes. Experience in production management and leadership is essential for success in this role. Join us to make a significant impact on team performance and operational excellence.

Formación

• Strong leadership skills to manage a diverse team.
• Ability to ensure compliance with safety and operational standards.
• Experience in production management and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and manage the team to ensure operational efficiency.
• Oversee compliance with health, safety, and environmental rules.
• Manage production performance and profitability.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Production management

Safety compliance

Descripción del empleo

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 APU 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 APU in front of customers.
• Manage the VPS deployment plan & P-30 of his/her APU, ensuring that there are permanently VPS workshops ongoing to improve its APU, challenged by him/her.
• Promote the Valeo 5 axes in the daily activities, set and reach 5 axes targets of his/her APU.
• Propose APU lay out evolutions to simplify flows.
• Prepare a budget proposal (including training actions, investments).
• Manage the budget of his/her APU 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.