Maintenance Supervisor

Valeo; Penang; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo Malaysia CDA Sdn. Bhd is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead a maintenance team in Penang. You will ensure safety rules, induct newcomers, schedule training, and drive QRQC, 5 WHYs, and TPM initiatives to improve equipment reliability.

You will manage daily KPIs, conduct annual appraisals and salary reviews, and promote continuous improvement through ERIM, Kaizen, and cost-effective maintenance practices in a permanent, full-time role.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in maintenance leadership and safety compliance.
• Ability to plan training actions and develop team skills.
• Strong knowledge of TPM, QRQC and 5 WHYs methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a maintenance team and enforce safety rules across all activities.
• Induct newcomers and run monthly training plans.
• Coordinate QRQC, Maintenance 5 WHYs, and red tag processes.
• Monitor certifications and manage KPI-driven performance.
• Conduct annual appraisals and salary reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement and ERIM deployments.

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.

Responsibilities

Manage people Ensure that safety rules for maintenance activities (such as LOTO procedure) are known & applied by its team. Be responsible for induction of all newcomers in his/her perimeter (temporaries included). Ensure the organization and scheduling of training actions so that they are aware of all the procedures, tools & standards they have to know & apply in their job. Ensure that his/her team is trained to Line QRQC, Maintenance QRQC, Maintenance 5 WHYs, red tags use, and that they understand what they have to do and when. Analyse flexibility and multi skills needs of his/her team, and define training plans in order to develop team autonomy and improvement spirit. Monitor certification process for each team member and update in real time flexibility grid. Manage daily: absenteeism, holidays, safety rules enforcement, environment risk analysis, Key Performance Indicators. Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigor and perform escalation according to standards. Follow up main objectives in monthly meetings with his/her team. Is responsible for personnel involvement and ensures a positive social climate. Conduct annual appraisals, as well as salary review. Promote permanently ERIM & TPM. Maintain standards Perform OJT of his/her teams every day on standards implemented. Ensure enforcement of health, safety, environmental & site rules in its perimeter, and that anybody entering His/her perimeter respects the rules and standards of his/her perimeter. Ensure existence of updated maintenance work instructions for his/her perimeter. Ensure respect of all working standards (safety, work instructions, quality, 5S, respect for the product, OK start After maintenance intervention, including preventive maintenance...) and propose/ implement improvements. Define work standards with the help of its team members. Ensure ERIM standards are properly deployed and used by his/her team: Maintenance Line QRQC root cause analysis with production, red tags solving & follow up, Maintenance 5 WHYs or PDCA/FTA on assigned topics, OJT of production on delegated preventive maintenance. Manage maintenance tasks Ensure maintenance tasks are done, respecting Maintenance KPIs targets in its perimeter. Prepare the scheduled maintenance tasks. Ensure they are done respecting the planned time communicated to Logistic & Production for tasks needing equipment off. In case of reliability issues, implement or ensure implementation of the appropriate Quick Response, in order to minimize the equipment non-availability. It can include to order, repair or get repaired in emergency Spare Parts. For corrective actions, ensure appropriate resources are allocated to minimize stoppages. Ensure actions to avoid recurrence are defined & taken. React in case of issue & escalation issues at APU & Maintenance management. Support its team on the major technical issues. Manage Continuous Improvement Lead action plans to improve the Maintenance department performance, maximizing equipment availability for production. Participate to equipment performance control & improvement, for instance by participating to cycle time measurements and micro-stoppages observation sessions. Reach and maintain a dynamic and efficient Proposals of Improvements system. Participate in safety and environment risks reduction. Leads Safety QRQC for all accidents & near-misses involving Maintenance people. Contribute to new equipment and processes industrialization and start ups. Participate in Maintenance QRQC. Pilot PDCA / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by the Maintenance Manager. Prepare LLC & Kaizen Cards. Participate in maintenance budget preparation & propose potential organization improvements. Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP,TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets.

Job

Maintenance Supervisor

Organization

APU

Schedule

Full time

Employee Status

Regular

Job Type

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date

2025-09-12

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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

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