Graduate Engineer Trainee – Production
Valeo — Chennai, Tamil Nadu
₹3–4 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time
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Quick answer: Behind the graduate trainee title sits a front-line supervisor's brief: a team of operators in Chennai, their training, attendance, standards and output. The engineering is real, but the job runs on people.
From Valeo's job posting
Manage people
Be responsible for induction of all newcomers in his/her perimeter (temporaries included). Ensure the organization and scheduling of training actions.
Analyse flexibility and multi skills needs of his/her APZ, and define training plans in order to develop team autonomy and improvement spirit.
Monitor certification process for each operator and update in real time flexibility grid.
Manage daily: absenteeism, holidays, safety rules enforcement, environment risk analysis, APZ communication & performance boards update.
Ensure respect of standard stops (breaks, meetings) by checking systematically on genba, and validate operators working time.
Ensure that standards of reaction are applied with rigor and perform escalation according to standards.
Follow up APZ main objectives in monthly meetings with all people under his/her responsibility.
Is responsible for personnel involvement and ensures a positive social climate.
Conduct operators’ annual appraisals, as well as salary review and career interviews.
Maintain standards
Perform OJT of his/her teams every day on standards implemented.
Ensure enforcement of health, safety, environmental & site rules for the APTs of its perimeter, and that anybody entering his/her perimeter respect the rules and standards of his/her perimeter.
Ensure existence of updated working instructions for every station, including reworks.
Ensure respect of all working standards (safety, work instructions, quality, 5S, respect of the product, OK start ...) during the operations and propose/ implement improvements.
Define work standards with the help of support functions and operators.
Ensure TPM standards are properly deployed and used : abnormalities detection (formalized on red tags), systematic inspection & regular cleaning of equipment by team, 1st levels of preventive maintenance, maintenance line QRQCs.
Control regularly genba equipment performance (including cycle time measurements, and microstoppages observation sessions), and react.
Make regularly time-measurements with main MUDA seeking
Ensure that all displays of his/her perimeter (QCDM by APT, QCDM & communication areas at APZ level) are updated at end of shift, and make sure that workers have necessary material to do so.
Manage production
Propose every week APZ headcounts & organization to the APU Manager, according to MPS.
Ensure production, respecting SQCDM & inventory targets.
In case a detected problem cannot be solved by the APT, assign and check containment and corrective actions with APU support functions and / or management.
Review daily all QRAP of his/her perimeter.
React in case of issue & escalate issues at APU level when needed.
Liaise with the Supply Chain team on MPS daily priorities.
Respect daily the MPS contract.
In case of daily MPS respect deviation, take necessary measures within the week, after validation by APU
Manager, to have respected weekly MPS at the end of the week.
Get involvement of support functions every time necessary to solve as fast as possible the issues identified by APTs.
Monitor shift QCDM and ensure QCDM boards are updated.
Make reports defined by site.
Manage Continuous Improvement
Lead action plans to improve SQCDM performance (actual and targets), in coherence with APU & Plant, including productivity plans (P-30).
Reach and maintain a dynamic and efficient Proposals of Improvements system.
Participate in safety and environment risks reduction & lead line Safety QRQC for cat. 7 safety issues.
Contribute to new equipment and processes start ups.
Lead Zoning evolution and improvements by his/her team.
Participate in APU QRQC: Quality, DL efficiency, Maintenance, prepare and come with necessary data for an efficient attendance.
Pilot PDCA / FTA & Maintenance 5 WHYs on topics assigned by APU Manager (Safety, Quality, DL efficiency, TRP, Maintenance).
Prepare LLC & Kaizen Cards.
Lead VPS workshops (flow analysis – MUDA hunting, 5S, Hoshin, TPM ...) and liaise with Site VPS Manager for training to methodologies; Participate in the weekly Site VPS committee, presenting regularly the genba status of workshops he/she is leading.
Liaise with support functions to facilitate improvement actions within the APTs.
Participate in budget preparation (headcounts, overheads, investments, P-30) and manage the budget of his/her APZ.
Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP, TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets.
The employer’s company overview, benefits and equal-opportunity statement are left out here; they are on the original posting.
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HireSetu's note
A team to run from week one
Count the duties that involve people. You induct new joiners, plan training, track operator certifications on a flexibility grid, chase absenteeism, run annual appraisals and hold career conversations. For a fresh graduate that is an unusual amount of authority, and it is the part of this role that will take the most out of you. The technical side, cycle-time measurement, TPM checks, QRQC reviews, exists to keep that team producing.
Days start before the shift does. Boards get updated at shift end, breaks run to fixed stops, and most of the job happens walking the line. Ask which APZ you would be placed in and how shifts rotate, because the team you inherit and the timing of your day decide what the weeks actually feel like.
What belongs at the top of your CV
The React in the skills list looks like a slip from another posting; nobody on a production floor is screening for it. Supply chain and validation do fit, since the role touches MPS priorities, inventory targets and the checks behind them.
Lead with anything where you ran people or a process: a college workshop you scheduled, an internship where you tracked output or rework, a 5S or lean exercise, a time study. Give numbers, how many people, how many parts, what changed. A group project described by who did what and how you kept it moving says more here than a list of software.
Drafted with AI from Valeo's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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