Production Supervisor

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, or Manufacturing Engineering (or related field).
• Minimum 5 years of manufacturing experience, including 2 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge of production management, lean manufacturing, 5S, and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage performance, and ensure safety and quality standards.
• Good communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
• Willing to work in a shift-based environment.

Job Responsibilities

• 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.