Spares Supervisor

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.

Manage people
● Ensure that safety rules for spares activities
● Be responsible for induction of all newcomers in his/her perimeter (temporaries included).
● Ensure the organisation and scheduling of training actions so that they are aware of all the
procedures, tools & standards they have to know & apply in their job.
● Ensure that his/her team is trained to Line QRQC, Maintenance QRQC, Maintenance 5 WHYs,
red tags use, and that they understand what they have to do and when.
● Analyse flexibility and multi skills needs of his/her team, and define training plans in order to
develop team autonomy and improvement spirit.
● Monitor certification process for each team member and update in real time flexibility grid.
● Manage daily: absenteeism, holidays, safety rules enforcement, environment risk analysis, Key
Performance Indicators.
● Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigour and perform escalation according to
standards.
● Follow up main objectives in monthly meetings with his/her team.
● Is responsible for personnel involvement and ensures a positive social climate.
● Conduct annual appraisals, as well as salary review.
● Promote permanently ERIM, TPM & SAP
Maintain standards
● Ensure 5S implementation in order to have a clean and organized warehouse, allowing prompt
location identification of parts
● Establish & maintain the spare part management system
● Supervise the handling of spare parts
● Create the working instructions & procedures for employees working in spare parts warehouse &
management
● Ensure access to spare parts by necessary employees during production period (normal &
overtime)

Manage Spares tasks
● Logistic & Production for tasks needing equipment off.
● In case of reliability issues, implement or ensure implementation of the appropriate Quick
Response, in order to minimise the equipment non-availability. It can include to order, repair or
get repaired in emergency Spare Parts.

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● For corrective actions, ensure appropriate resources are allocated to minimise stoppages.
● Ensure actions to avoid recurrence are defined & taken.
● React in case of issue & escalate issues at APU & Maintenance management.
● Support its team on the major issues.
Manage Continuous Improvement
● Propose the spare parts budget to the Plant / Production manager
● Implement spare parts warehouse red box
● Permanently challenge the inventory reorder points and stock value.
● Improve inventory accuracy thanks to regular cycle counting, discrepancy root cause analysis
and action plan
● Track spare parts obsolescence (including following transfers and equipments write off) and
identify non-rotating stock
● Propose to Maintenance Manager a list of obsolete, non-rotating spare parts & related
● Action Plan, such as sell back to suppliers or on the open market, or to other Valeo plants.
● Define the spare parts procurement strategy, taking into account the spare parts cost,
● Lead Time and crucialness of equipment, in relationship with Equipment FMEA.
● Improve the spare parts management & handling system.
● Lead action plans to improve the spares department performance, maximising inventory
availability for production.
● Reach and maintain a dynamic and efficient Proposals of Improvements system.
● Participate in safety and environment risks reduction.
● Leads Safety QRQC for all accidents & near-misses involving spares people.
● Contribute to new equipment and processes industrialization and start ups.
● Participate in Maintenance QRQC.
● Pilot PDCA / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by the Maintenance Manager.
● Prepare LLC & Kaizen Cards.
● Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP, TQ, SAP and
reach assigned V5000 targets.

Contribute to successful new projects
● Participate to contract negotiation with parts supplier lead by purchase department
● Promote and participate to standardisation of spare parts
● Alert and build action plan in case of non-available spare parts
● Create the new line’s necessary spare part list
● Request quotation about new spare parts
● New parts get into spare part handling system
● Participate in the spare parts list definition at the earlier stage of machines / equipment
investment; Challenge it.

Job:

Spare Parts Warehouse Tech

Organization:

Maintenance Spares

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-09-18

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