Maintenance Supervisor

Valeo; Penang; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo in Malaysia (Penang) is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor within the APU organization. You will lead a maintenance team, enforce safety rules (LOTO), induct newcomers, organize and track training, and drive continuous improvement in maintenance performance.

The role focuses on ensuring compliance with health, safety, environment standards, managing daily activities, appraisals, and promoting ERIM & TPM to maximize equipment availability and production efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance teams in manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of safety rules and LOTO procedures.
• Experience organizing induction and ongoing training for staff.
• Familiar with QRQC, 5 WHYs and root cause analysis.
• Ability to set training plans, monitor certifications and KPI progress.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop maintenance team to meet production goals.
• Enforce health, safety, environmental and site rules; ensure training in standards.
• Plan and supervise scheduled maintenance tasks and logistics for equipment.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and TPM for equipment availability.
• Monitor performance, conduct annual appraisals and maintain positive team climate.

Skills

People management

Safety compliance

Training & onboarding

Quality & safety standards

Maintenance planning

Root cause analysis (QRQC/5 WHYs)

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

_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_