Maintenance Manager at Valeo

Manage people:

• Ensure that safety rules for maintenance activities are defined, consistent and applied (such as LOTO 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 trainings program to educate Direct Labour to maintenance basics.
• Performs ERIM OJTs

Manage standards:

• Participate actively to ERIM 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 dpt 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 to 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 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 (ERIM, TPM, …) to propose improvements on new machines & associated equipments.