Maintenance Supervisor

Valeo; Penang; On-site; MYR 67,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor for the APU organization in Malaysia (Penang) to lead maintenance teams and uphold safety, quality and process standards. The role focuses on training, certification, and development of team capabilities, while driving continuous improvement initiatives and TPM practices.

You will manage daily operations, KPIs, and urgent maintenance actions, participate in annual appraisals, and contribute to a culture of safety and efficiency within a large global

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety rules for maintenance activities are known and applied by the team.
• Induct newcomers and organize training actions to ensure procedures, tools and standards are known and applied in their job.
• Organize and schedule training actions so the team understands procedures, tools and standards to know and apply.
• Ensure team is trained in Line QRQC, Maintenance QRQC, Maintenance 5 WHYs, red tags use, and understands actions and timing.
• Analyze flexibility and multi-skills needs of the team and define training plans to improve autonomy and improvement spirit.
• Monitor certification processes for each member and update the flexibility grid in real time.
• Manage daily attendance, holidays, safety rule enforcement, risk analysis and KPIs.
• Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigor and escalate according to standards.
• Follow up objectives in monthly meetings with the team; ensure positive social climate.
• Conduct annual appraisals and salary reviews; promote ERIM & TPM.
• Perform OJT of teams daily on implemented standards.
• Enforce health, safety, environmental and site rules; ensure entry is compliant.
• Maintain updated maintenance work instructions and ensure adherence to all standards (safety, quality, 5S, OK start).
• Develop maintenance standards with the team; ensure ERIM standards are deployed and used for root cause analysis.
• Lead PDCA/FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by the Maintenance Manager; support major technical issues.

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 & elevate 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