APU Quality Technician

Valeo; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo is seeking a Production Operator in a Site Quality - J organization. This full-time, permanent role involves maintaining quality on production lines, performing inspections, and ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards at our Reno site.

You will work with gauges and participate in continuous improvement programs. Join an automotive leader with a global footprint and a strong focus on sustainable mobility.

Qualifications

• Experience with quality systems and production line paperwork.
• Ability to stop production for non-conformities.

Responsibilities

• Use gauges and understand measurements on production lines.
• Assist in gauge calibration with lab and identify out-of-calibration equipment.
• Monitor scrap and defects; support rapid issue-reactivity.
• Launch and coordinate sorting activities; train others for sorting (good part / bad part).
• Support Quality Engineer with additional activities.
• Ensure helium/energy mapping is 100% complete by end of shift.
• Populate scrap documents electronically to create scrap reports.
• Stop production on non-conformities and sort to eliminate nonconforming parts and protect deliveries.
• Escalate issues with Quality Technician to ensure proper sorting and customer delivery protection.
• Maintain compliance with quality work instructions and defect books.
• Participate in the PSG (Problem Solving Group) on the line.
• Analyze bad parts to identify root causes per QRQC steps.
• Train operators on quality work instructions and documents.
• Report quality results daily with top-3 issues and corrective actions.

Skills

Quality control

Auditing

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Team coordination

Tools

Gauges

Calipers

Digital indicators

Feeler gauges

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.

• Support all safety protocols in plant

• Responsible of all the process audits such as:

-5S.

-Respect of the product

-QRAP board

-Quality standards

- First piece article (FPA)

-All other quality related paperwork on production lines.

• Use and understand gauges, callipers, digital indicators, feeler gauges, etc.

• Support gauge calibration with lab (Identify those equipments that are out of calibration or prox to expire)

• Monitor scrap and other defects during your shift & support reactivity of issues.

• Launch and coordinate sorting activities and train others to perform a sorting. (good part / bad part)

• Support Quality Engineer with additional activities

• Make sure Helium mapping/Energy mapping is completed 100% at the end of the shift

• Use boundary samples to verify if parts are OK.

• Analysis and reactivity of scrap. Work with team leaders and supervisors to contain quality issues.

• Populate scrap documents electronically to create a scrap report.

• Escalate issues when needed and report accurately your findings during daily audits.

• Stops the production in case of non-conformity detections and ensures sorting of production to eliminate all nonconform parts and secure customer deliveries

• In case of non-conformity detections escape the issue with Quality Technician to ensure sorting of production to eliminate all nonconform parts and secure customer deliveries.

• Continuous control of compliance with working standards such as Quality work instructions, book of defect, etc.

• Participate in the PSG ( Problem Solving Group) on the line.

• Analyse BAD parts – looks for root cause by keeping all rules and steps of QRQC

• Proceeds with operator training regarding any quality work instruction or any other quality document such as: Book of defects, Firewall inspection, EOL, etc).

• Report out quality results on a daily basis (passdown) with analysis of the top 3 issues during the shifts, corrective actions, customer notifications, etc.

• Responsible for running Datapaq according to the schedule or when needed.

Job:

Production Operator

Organization:

Site Quality - J

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-09-22

_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_