Maintenance Technician

Valeo; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo is seeking a maintenance leadership professional in Reno to oversee maintenance operations, drive reliability improvements and ensure compliance with safety and environmental standards. The role focuses on minimizing downtime, managing budgets, and leading QRQC initiatives across maintenance teams.

The position requires coordinating with engineering and production to ensure continuous equipment availability and implementing improvement plans aligned with Valeo’s VPS/IP/TQ frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Maintain MTTR, maximize MTBF & TRP.
• Propose maintenance budget and control expenditures.
• Lead maintenance QRQC.
• Deploy ERIM / TPM.
• Ensure release and update of technical documentation & Work Instructions.
• Keep spare parts lists updated.
• Promote Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP,TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets.

Job description

• Is in charge of create standards, establish safety culture and ensure it is thoroughly respected;
• Detect & react in case of deviation.
• Pilot safety QRQC.
• Assess environmental impact of equipment.
• Is aware and gets applied to local & Group regulations and norms.

SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT

• Is in charge of create standards, establish safety culture and ensure it is thoroughly respected;
• Detect & react in case of deviation.
• Pilot safety QRQC.
• Assess environmental impact of equipment.
• Incorporate safety LLC in equipment design.
• Is aware and gets applied to local & Group regulations and norms.

PEOPLE

• Develop expertise & specialists.
• Anticipate human resources needs, managing age pyramid & competence transfer needs & duration.
• Act to avoid turnover.
• Allocate resources to properly fulfil its role in the Mother / Daughter relationship.

INDUSTRIALIZATION

• Manage the engineers/technicians industrializing new equipment.
• Ensure that the VSDP &IPROM standards are applied in equipment industrialization in
• cooperation with process PTM, respecting compliance rules.
• Participate in industrial IAR preparation.
• Ensure back to design flow.

MAINTENANCE

• Manage its maintenance resources in order to minimize MTTR, maximize MTBF & TRP.
• Proposes maintenance budget (overheads, labour, spare parts inventory value); control respect of the budget.
• Drive productivity actions related to P-30.
• Lead maintenance QRQC.
• Deploy ERIM / TPM.
• Ensure the release and update of technical documentations & Work Instructions.
• Ensure equipment FMEA are done & up to date
• Keep up to date the Lists of spare parts

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• 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.