Maintenance Manager

Valeo•McAllen, TX

36d•Onsite

About The Position

Valeo is a global tech company focused on reinventing mobility through innovative solutions. As the Site Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for maximizing equipment availability, managing maintenance activities and teams, and implementing a maintenance strategy including ERIM deployment. Your role will involve optimizing maintenance costs, managing team training, and contributing to new project competitiveness by proposing machine improvements. This is a future opportunity anticipated for 2027.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Manage people, ensuring safety rules are defined and applied, managing maintenance supervisors, and overseeing the age pyramid for competence transfer.
Manage the training plan for the team, including technical skills, and ensure training in QRQC, Maintenance 5 WHYs, PDCA/FTA.
Perform Total Productive Maintenance OJT.
Participate actively in 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 or co-manage the Maintenance QRQC with the APU Manager.
Detect refurbishing/renewal needs and build/follow necessary action plans.
Lead the delegation of preventive maintenance level 1 & 2 towards production teams, ensuring proper training and OJT.
Ensure Preventive Maintenance is organized and performed according to need, with planning and communication to production teams (MPS).
Participate actively in the Mother Daughter link concerning the maintenance field.
Lead kaizen actions to improve the maintenance field, such as accessibility to organs.
Manage a productivity action plan (spare parts, energy).
Manage VPS workshops (TPM, 5S) and participate in stop scrap activity.
Propose to the plant manager and manage the maintenance budget.
Propose and drive the maintenance strategy.
Implement communication flow with equipment development teams to incorporate maintenance lessons learned (kaizen card) into the back to design flow.
Ensure maintenance contributes to new equipment launches and participate in Lean Process Design.
Ensure rules concerning equipment manufacturer assistance onsite/at distance are included in specifications and contracts negotiated by the Purchase department.
Participate in maintenance contract negotiation with the purchasing department.
Participate in the definition of standard parts to be requested in Site General Specifications for New equipments.
Use experience & methodology (Equipments Reliability Improvement Management, TPM, etc.) to propose improvements on new machines & associated equipment.