Manage people

- Ensure that any new employee of his/her perimeter follows an Induction process.

- Monitor competences for his/her team and develops its autonomy (training plan building, follow-up & training actions implementation).

- Ensure working standards are respected on its APU during the operations (safety, work instructions, quality, respect of the product).

- Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigor (eg. KOSU) and perform escalation according to standards.

- Lead daily, weekly & monthly meetings, and organize delegation.

- Conduct annual appraisals, salary review, career interviews, succession planning & give feedback.

- Communicate a mindset of continuous improvement & responsibility vs. targets achievement inside its APU.

- Perform OJT of his/her teams every day on standards & methodologies implemented.

- Congratulate and recognize its team for improvements.

- Ensure a positive social climate on his/her APU.

Manage standards

- Ensure enforcement of health, safety and environmental rules.

- Ensure curative & preventive maintenance of equipment & sustainable ERIM deployment.

- Define work standards with the help of support functions.

- Manage production

- Be responsible for customer satisfaction.

- Be accountable for SQCDM performance and profitability (gross margin) of his/her APU, in terms of targets achievement, and improvement.

- Ensure optimal use of equipment (TRP).

- Assign & check corrective actions on recurring problems with APU and Plant support departments.





- Escalate at Site level the issues that can’t be solved at APU level.

- Validate monthly the demonstrated capacity of his/ her APU and communicate to SC for SIOP / MPS.

- Weekly commit on MPS.

- Respect daily the MPS contract.

- In case of daily MPS respect deviation, take necessary measures to have respected weekly MPS at end of the week.

Manage continuous improvement

- Lead daily APU QRQC (Safety, Quality, Direct Labor efficiency, Maintenance).

- Lead workstation ergonomics risk analysis and elimination.

- Lead everyday genba activities with his/her team, as TOP 3 issues countermeasures review as for KOSU.

- Lead & review action plans to improve SQCDM performance (presente and targets).

- Be responsible for Customer Line Return analysis and solving for products from his/her APU in front of customers.

- Manage the VPS deployment plan & P-30 of his/her APU, ensuring that there are permanently VPS workshops ongoing to improve its APU, challenged by him/her.

- Promote the Valeo 5 axes in the daily activities, set and reach 5 axes targets of his/her APU.

- Propose APU lay out evolutions to simplify flows.

- Prepare a budget proposal (including training actions, investments).

- Manage the budget of his/her APU and allocates the appropriate resources in respect with the budget perimeter. Implement necessary corrective actions for compliance.

Contribute to successful new projects

- Be involved in the industrialization of new projects (before end phase 2), FPDRs and SOPs and facilitate by his / her actions proper start ups.

📌 APU Manager (Ciudad Juárez)
🏢 Valeo
📍 Ciudad Juárez