Graduate Engineer Trainee - Production

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.

Manage people

• Be responsible for induction of all newcomers in his/her perimeter (temporaries included). Ensure the organization and scheduling of training actions.

• Analyse flexibility and multi skills needs of his/her APZ, and define training plans in order to develop team autonomy and improvement spirit.

• Monitor certification process for each operator and update in real time flexibility grid.

• Manage daily: absenteeism, holidays, safety rules enforcement, environment risk analysis, APZ communication & performance boards update.

• Ensure respect of standard stops (breaks, meetings) by checking systematically on genba, and validate operators working time.

• Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigor  and perform escalation according to standards.

• Follow up APZ main objectives in monthly meetings with all people under his/her responsibility.

• Is responsible for personnel involvement and ensures a positive social climate.

• Conduct operators’ annual appraisals, as well as salary review and career interviews.
   

Maintain standards

• Perform OJT of his/her teams every day on standards implemented.

• Ensure enforcement of health, safety, environmental & site rules for the APTs of its perimeter, and that anybody entering his/her perimeter respect the rules and standards of his/her perimeter.

• Ensure existence of updated working instructions for every station, including reworks.

• Ensure respect of all working standards (safety, work instructions, quality, 5S, respect of the product, OK start ...) during the operations and propose/ implement improvements.

• Define work standards with the help of support functions and operators.

• Ensure TPM standards are properly deployed and used : abnormalities detection (formalized on red tags), systematic inspection & regular cleaning of equipment by team, 1st levels of preventive maintenance, maintenance line QRQCs.

• Control regularly genba equipment performance (including cycle time measurements, and microstoppages observation sessions), and react.

• Make regularly time-measurements with main MUDA seeking

• Ensure that all displays of his/her perimeter (QCDM by APT, QCDM & communication areas at APZ level) are updated at end of shift, and make sure that workers have necessary material to do so.
   

Manage production

• Propose every week APZ headcounts & organization to the APU Manager, according to MPS.

• Ensure production, respecting SQCDM & inventory targets.

• In case a detected problem cannot be solved by the APT, assign and check containment and corrective actions with APU support functions and / or management.

• Review daily all QRAP of his/her perimeter.

• React in case of issue & escalate issues at APU level when needed.

• Liaise with the Supply Chain team on MPS daily priorities.

• Respect daily the MPS contract.

• In case of daily MPS respect deviation, take necessary measures within the week, after validation by APU

• Manager, to have respected weekly MPS at the end of the week.

• Get involvement of support functions every time necessary to solve as fast as possible the issues identified by APTs.

• Monitor shift QCDM and ensure QCDM boards are updated.

• Make reports defined by site.
   

Manage Continuous Improvement

• Lead action plans to improve SQCDM performance (actual and targets), in coherence with APU & Plant, including productivity plans (P-30).

• Reach and maintain a dynamic and efficient Proposals of Improvements system.

• Participate in safety and environment risks reduction & lead line Safety QRQC for cat. 7 safety issues.

• Contribute to new equipment and processes start ups.

• Lead Zoning evolution and improvements by his/her team.

• Participate in APU QRQC: Quality, DL efficiency, Maintenance, prepare and come with necessary data for an efficient attendance.

• Pilot PDCA / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by APU Manager (Safety, Quality, DL efficiency, TRP, Maintenance).

• Prepare LLC & Kaizen Cards.

• Lead VPS workshops (flow analysis – MUDA hunting, 5S, Hoshin, TPM ...) and liaise with Site VPS Manager for training to methodologies; Participate in the weekly Site VPS committee, presenting regularly the genba status of workshops he/she is leading.

• Liaise with support functions to facilitate improvement actions within the APTs.

• Participate in budget preparation (headcounts, overheads, investments, P-30) and manage the budget of his/her APZ.

• Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP, TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets.

Job:

Production Supervisor

Organization:

APU

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-10-14

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