Group Segment SQA Leader

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.

Roles & Responsibilities:

1) Manage the Valeo supplier panel from a quality perspective for the Segments (Plastic / Stamping / Casting / Packaging / Assembly);

- Evaluate and validate new suppliers in compliance with Supplier Quality Manual

- Support with Technical Expertise the selection process of the Suppliers to be introduced

2) Support the Valeo Sites, Product Groups (PG) and Regions in case of crisis and cross fertilize knowledge on incidents and problem solving for the segments of the Segments (Plastic / Stamping / Casting / Packaging / Assembly);

- Support with Technical Expertise the Valeo teams in the region (related to Supplier production processes and products);

- Support Valeo Sites, PGs and Regions in the case of a crisis or of a major roadblock with Suppliers

- Collect knowledge gained thru the incident problem solving activity (Lessons Learnt) to define, manage and update the technical checklists used for the validation of processes

- Ensure the cross-fertilization of the technical knowledge among Suppliers of the technologies managed.

3) Drive SQA performance: implement audits and follow dashboards to track quality improvements that must be requested from the supplier panel of the Segments (Plastic / Stamping / Casting / Packaging / Assembly);

- Ensure the cross-fertilization of Lessons Learnt at suppliers in Recover Supplier Quality (RSQ) program

- Management of incidents (with internal / external impact) for the Segments (Plastic / Stamping / Casting / Packaging / Assembly)

- New supplier on the panel: Technical and Quality evaluation validated after visits on the shopfloor.

Qualifications:

Mechanical engineer with experience in automotive industry

Experience in following processes: Plastic injection; metallic stamping; ferrous and non ferrous injection; packaging (cardboard, wooden pallets...)

Quality core tools: process audit, IATF and VDA

Skills:

Fluent in English

Rigor, autonomy, perseverance

Able to act with supplier top management

Job:

Group SQA Manager/Group SQA Leader

Organization:

Group Commodity SQA PTS

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2023-07-04

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

Organisation: 
Valeo