Project Launch Manager

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.

Valeo Group is one of the world's largest Automotive suppliers which is an inspired company focused on innovative products, development and customer satisfaction. Working with us means managing the most advanced and sophisticated technologies.

Our Martos plant is one of the biggest sites within our Visibility Systems Business Group in charge of developing and manufacturing Lighting Products and Electronics, with around 2.600 employees. From the latest adaptive lighting technologies to intuitive interior lighting solutions to stylish and design-centric external lighting, Valeo constantly innovates to improve comfort and safety for drivers and passengers alike.
 

As a Project Launch Manager your mission will be to ensure flawless production and perfect P1 launches in association to a P1/P0 Project development conducted in a Development Center. 

- Ensure the achievement of Project objectives in terms of manufacturing: VPS (Valeo Production System) principles, process standards, quality & cost.

- Ensure manufacturing/production quality objectives respect (process standards development, timing, capacity & logistic control…), take Project QRQC responsibility on site starting OTOP preparation.

- Run at rate and FDPR planning and realization within quality objectives for assembly and upstream components.

- Manage the acceptance of local component parts

- Manage the process validation by customer

- Manage PPAP file delivery, acceptance and parts deliveries on time to customer. Follow all modifications requested

- Validate capacity availability and investments in production site, is accountable for ramp-up phases deliveries

- Follow-up non quality costs and quality improvement plans

- Secure Project resources and control them

- Check and validate Project Team Members activities and proposes scenario to achieve milestones

- Manage budget (all Site resources)

- Ensure appraisal and development of associated project team members

- Report process development progress to PMC & TSC with control of associated Project Manager (Use RU Ready)

-Participate to all reviews: Design, Process & logistic, PFMEA, TSC, PMC starting REQF milestone

- Play the interface role between the Project development team located in Development Center and the customer 

- Respect Valeo Code of ethics

- Respect health, safety and environment charts and requirements

- Ensure Project manufacturing development through activities defined in CIP & Project Management Handbook

• Engineering degree and knowledge of Product/Process (VPS-process standards)
• Personal skills to manage functional organization
• Valeo CIP development  methodology or similar
• Quality standards (FMEAs, AQP, Process, Logistic,…)
• Financial skills on Development costs, Product costs and Manufacturing costs
• Knowledge of Automotive development (5/7 years)
• Get successful development experience as Process Engineering PTM and/or Production and /or Logistic (3/5 years)

 If you DO NOT meet all the requirements, don't worry, we want to meet you too!

Don´t miss the opportunity of joining us and take advantage of being part of an international company that commits to ethics, transparency, empowerment, professionalism and teamwork. Is that you? We want to know you!

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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