APU Manager at Valeo in Chrzanów, Lesser Poland, Poland

APU Manager Location: CHRZANOW - CHR1 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. Description - External Valeo is an automotive supplier and partner to automakers worldwide. As a technology company, we design innovative solutions for smart mobility, with a particular focus on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. The Group also provides and distributes spare parts for automakers and independent aftermarket operators. Valeo Lighting Systems The plant produces front and rear car lights using advanced technology of metallization, assembly and plastic injection including multicomponent and multi-color injections. It also has a fully equipped measurement laboratory with a unique photometric testing tunnel. As a result of growth, Valeo Lighting Systems is currently opening a new Development Center, which focuses on  developing and manufacturing lighting systems for passenger cars. Currently for our entity Valeo Lighting Systems in Chrzanów we recruit APU Manager. Job description: Mission: Provide requested products with simultaneous proper management of cost, quality and delivery to satisfy customers; Manage APUnit consisting of APTeams and cooperating with all supporting functions (process, logistics, quality, procurement) Area of responsibility: Organize the production unit into Autonomous Production Teams led by several supervisors, committed to the given objectives and budget, and develop a spirit of quality and efficiency based on a strong involvement of all employees, using the methods and tools of 5 axes strategy; Manage Customers in terms of both Quality and Delivery with an ultimate goal of overal Customer Satisfaction Support actively the actions and recommendations initialized by Quality Department in order to reach the shared “zero defect” target; Introduce development programme for all employees in the APU to achieve  multi- skilled and autonomous teams and develop their progression; Ensure positive work climate based on the Group values of mutual aid, respect and recognition bearing in mind the strong development of the Division; Constantly improve production process, raise productivity, ensure people involvement; Initiate corrective and preventive actions. Personel managment: Plan and organize work to subordinates; Check following control after tasks realization by: Acquaint subordinates with their job descriptions and job instructions. Acquaint employees with quality problems, complaints and notice from clients (internal, external). Acquaint subordinates with rules and safety regulations, fire protections; Enforcement compliance that rules by employees; Acquaint employees with job risk according to performed job on allocated position and the ways their limited or elimination. Carrying out briefing to subordinates with regulations. Allow to work employees which only: accordingly trained, having required qualification and needed skills, having actual medical certificate where stand lack of contraindication to work, Stocked with individual protection resources, clothes and work shoes. Organize job positions regarding regulations, rules, safety and healthy rules, in particular: organized, prepared and provided work, allowing employees protection ahead of accidents at work, job sickness and other sickness according to job conditions. Provide good technical state and treatment according to destination (individual/group protection things, safety equipment, barriers, safety wrappers and others protections. Carrying about hygiene accommodation state and cleanness on subject to part of APU. Ensure execution of doctor recommendations carrying about employees. Organize jobs according to job time and other regulations Ensure availability of actual Job Instructions and S&H Instructions requirements on job positions. Carrying about keeping secret technical information, technological, industrial and plant organizational, which leak could induce harm to the employer. Compliance with procedure rules definite in statute about Protection Database: keeping in secret personal data of people which are hired in company and do not pass data to other people. Qualifications - External Requirements: Engineering degree or Experience; Minimum 5 years of professional experience in production and / or Supply Chain; Experience in Automotive industry is a must; Experience in HRM; Fluent English; Analytical skills; Highly developed interpersonal skills: communication, team-working, creativeness and scrupulousness; Professional approach to work, strong sense of responsibility, ability to cope with stress. We offer: Employment in an international production company with high quality standards of work, a leading multinational high tech automotive supplier; Attractive working conditions and benefits: possibility to work remotely, participation in internal and external trainings, subsidies for MyBenefit cafeteria and Multisport card, additional health and life insurance, private medical care (Medicover), Employee Retirement Programmes (PPE) and other social benefits. Job: APU Manager Organization: Production Schedule: Full time Employee Status: Regular Job Type: Probation period contract (Regular) Job Posting Date: 2026-05-13 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