VPS Engineer

Full time

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.

The Valeo Group is one of the world's largest automotive suppliers; 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 largest centers in our Visibility Systems Business Group, responsible for the development and manufacturing of lighting and electronics products, with approximately 2,600 employees. From the latest adaptive lighting technologies to intuitive interior lighting solutions, as well as elegant and design-focused exterior lighting, Valeo constantly innovates to improve the comfort and safety of both drivers and passengers.

As a VPS (Valeo Production System) Engineer at Valeo Martos, you will have the opportunity to work with the most powerful automobile manufacturers in electronics development, within an international and multicultural environment.

VPS Competencies

• Develop your own competencies and skills in tools and methodologies useful for the APU (Autonomous Production Unit).

• Train APU members in VPS tools, standards, and methodologies, ensuring they are known and correctly applied.

VPS Strategies

• Ensure that VPS rules are taken into account in new projects at the appropriate phase.

• Help the APU Manager maintain a continuous improvement mindset, behavior, and policy, regardless of the operational situation.

• Organize the annual VSA (Valeo Self-Assessment) throughout the APU and propose the list of annual workshops.

• Help define the APU's VPS strategy and prepare the budget corresponding to the VPS objectives.

• Manage the deployment of the V5000 VPS standard within the APU: manage the self-assessment with unit members and the improvement action plan.

• Deploy VPS standards and best practices in the APU.

Genba Activities (on-site)

• Coach APU members in the application of VPS tools and methodologies through on-the-job training (OJT).

• Permanently help the APU Manager detect and react to non-conformities with VPS standards.

• Manage the maintenance of VPS tools through appropriate audits (such as Kanban audits): organization, execution, and follow-up.

• Prepare and organize the APU's weekly VPS committee (including the proposed agenda) led by the APU Manager, and write the minutes.

• Regularly and in-depth supervise the correct deployment of the VPS pillar in the APU.

• Support the pilots of the APU's VPS workshops regarding methodology and achievement of results.

• Permanently lead workshops and implement improvement proposals.

We are looking for:

• Degree/Master's in Industrial Engineering.

• Consolidated experience in a similar role.

• Advanced level of English (C1).

• Results-oriented and committed to teamwork in an international environment.

• Professionalism and transparency.

• Geographic mobility (one-site position).

• Passion for the automotive industry.

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

Don't miss the opportunity to join us and take advantage of being part of an international company committed to ethics, transparency, empowerment, professionalism and teamwork. Is that you? We want to meet you!

APU Manager

Regular

2026-01-20

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