Maintenance Manager

Valeo · McAllen

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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.

Future Opportunity: This posting is for an anticipated future hiring need for 2027. 

Ready to tackle the challenges of the vehicle of the future? Join us and lead tech innovation for a reinvented interior experience!

What you will win:

As part of a global community of talented people, you will grow and thrive working on advanced technologies for greener, safer and smarter mobility. Our company culture gives all our employees the opportunity every day to #Dare.Care.Share.  You will receive a best in class, total compensation package that provides a comprehensive benefits program with real financial value

About the Role:

As the Site Maintenance Manager,  you will be in charge of maximizing the availability of equipment, managing maintenance activity and teams in order to improve equipment availability while promoting safety attitude.  You will also implement a maintenance strategy including ERIM deployment. optimize maintenance costs (human resources and spare parts) along with implementing and managing maintenance team training.  You will also contribute to new project competitiveness by proposing machines improvements

Manage people

• Ensure that safety rules for maintenance activities are defined, consistent and applied (such as lock out tag out procedure)
• Manage maintenance supervisors
• Manage age pyramid in order to be able to organize on time the competence transfer towards successors
• Manage training plan for his team, including technical skills, using magic square.
• Ensures that his team is trained to QRQC : Line QRQC, Maintenance 5 WHYs, PDCA/FTA.
• Builds training program to educate Direct Labor to maintenance basics.
• Performs Total Productive Maintenance OJTs

Manage standards

• Participate actively to TPM deployment with production teams
• Manage a global equipment reliability action plan
• Optimize maintenance costs during corrective and preventive maintenance activities
• Implement Maintenance QRQC red box & Maintenance department visual key indicators
• Manage of co-manage with the APU Manager the Maintenance QRQC
• Detect refurbishing/renewal needs and builds and follows potential necessary action plan
• Lead the delegation of preventive maintenance level 1 & 2 towards production teams; Ensures
• that Direct Labour is properly trained and that OJT is in place
• Ensure Preventive Maintenance is organized and done according to need, with planification and communication to production teams (MPS).
• Participate actively in the Mother Daughter link concerning the maintenance field.

Manage continuous improvement

• Lead kaizen actions to improve in maintenance field, such as : accessibility to organs
• Manage a productivity action plan (spare parts, energy)
• Manage VPS workshops (TPM, 5S) and participate to stop scrap activity
• Propose to plant manager and manage maintenance budget
• Propose and drive maintenance strategy
• Implement communication flow with equipment development teams to get taken into account
• maintenance lessons learns (kaizen card) = Back to design flow

​Contribute to successful new projects

• Make sure that maintenance is contributing to new equipment launches and participate to Lean Process Design
• Ensure that rules concerning equipment manufacturer assistance onsite/at distance are involved in specifications and contract negotiated by the Purchase department.
• Participate to maintenance contract negotiation with purchasing department
• Participate to the definition of standard parts to be requested in Site General Specifications for New equipments
• Use experience & methodology (Equipments Reliability Improvement Management, TPM, ...) to propose improvements on new machines & associated equipment.

What You Should Have:

• A completed Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field
• 5-7 + years of experience in a similar industrial facility maintenance position
• A combination of education and experience may also be considered
• Good working knowledge of general maintenance and facilities maintenance
• Experience with project management, time and materials management and success measurement

Join us!
Thanks to its strategy focused on innovation, Valeo aims at reducing CO² emissions and developing intuitive driving to propose greener, safer, and smarter mobility.  The fantastic (r)evolution towards the vehicle of the future provides amazing career opportunities and challenging jobs!

Diversity by nature
At Valeo, innovation is driven by the diversity, authenticity and energy of its talent. Are you looking for new technological and human adventures? Join Valeo and its more than 100.000 employees across the globe! More information about Valeo : https://www.valeo.com

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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

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