APU Manager

Valeo; George Town; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An automotive parts manufacturer is seeking an APU Manager to oversee operations in George Town, Malaysia. The role involves leading daily meetings, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards, and managing team development and performance. Ideal candidates should have experience in production management and a strong commitment to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Ensure adherence to health, safety and environmental rules.
• Conduct annual appraisals and manage training plans.
• Manage production and ensure SQCDM performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily, weekly & monthly meetings and organization.
• Manage the budget and allocate resources in compliance.
• Perform OJT of teams daily on standards & methodologies.

Job description

Overview

APU Manager role at Valeo.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that any new employee of perimeter follows an Induction process.
• Monitor competences for the 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 teams every day on standards & methodologies implemented.
• Congratulate and recognize its team for improvements.
• Ensure a positive social climate on 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 accountable for SQCDM performance and profitability (gross margin) of 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 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.
• Lead daily APU QRQC (Safety, Quality, Direct Labor efficiency, Maintenance).
• Lead workstation ergonomics risk analysis and elimination.
• Lead everyday genba activities with 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 APU in front of customers.
• Manage the VPS deployment plan & P-30 of 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 APU.
• Propose APU lay out evolutions to simplify flows.
• Prepare budget proposal (including training actions, investments).
• Manage the budget of 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 actions for start-ups.
• Validate the Lean Process Design Checklist for new projects.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing