Maintenance Technician
Valeo · Reno, NV
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- 9 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level reliability role at Valeo (automotive) in Reno, NV. Detect & react in case of deviation.
- Tools it names
- Kaizen, TPM, FMEA
- Openings
- 4 with this title at this site
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How this role compares
Against 15 other live reliability postings in Nevada.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 63%
- Welding 38%
- EHS / safety 25%
- Automation 25%
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Stands out: this posting asks for Kaizen, TPM, FMEA, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Valeo in Reno
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Full description from ValeoAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
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.
Safety & environment
- •Is in charge of create standards, establish safety culture and ensure it is thoroughly respected;
- •Detect & react in case of deviation.
- •Pilot safety QRQC.
- •Assess environmental impact of equipment.
- •Incorporate safety LLC in equipment design.
- •Is aware and gets applied to local & Group regulations and norms.
PEOPLE
- •Develop expertise & specialists.
- •Anticipate human resources needs, managing age pyramid & competence transfer needs & duration.
- •Act to avoid turnover.
- •Allocate resources to properly fulfil its role in the Mother / Daughter relationship.
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Industrialization
- •Manage the engineers/technicians industrializing new equipment.
- •Ensure that the VSDP &IPROM standards are applied in equipment industrialization in
- •cooperation with process PTM, respecting compliance rules.
- •Participate in industrial IAR preparation.
- •Ensure back to design flow.
Maintenance
- •Manage its maintenance resources in order to minimize MTTR, maximize MTBF & TRP.
- •Proposes maintenance budget (overheads, labour, spare parts inventory value); control respect of the budget.
- •Drive productivity actions related to P-30.
- •Lead maintenance QRQC.
- •Deploy ERIM / TPM.
- •Ensure the release and update of technical documentations & Work Instructions.
- •Ensure equipment FMEA are done & up to date
- •Keep up to date the Lists of spare parts
Continuous improvement
- •Measurements and micro-stoppages observation sessions.
- •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 Maintenance 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.
- •Participate in maintenance budget preparation & propose potential organization improvements.
- •Promote the Valeo 5 axes in daily activities, develop improvement plan on VPS, IP,TQ and reach assigned V5000 targets.
Permanent contract Job Posting Date
2026-10-14 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