Uap manager

Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader

We pioneer technology for mobility experience that matters to people.

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

• Supervise and coordinate the human and material production resources, within the Group’s general manufacturing procedures, in order to continuously achieve production, quality, and service objectives.
• Optimize human and material resources to ensure customer orders.
• Minimize the consumption of materials and fluids in order to reduce waste and unnecessary usage.
• Monitor direct labor (DL) times.
• Analyze and coordinate production issues together with the Technical and Quality Departments, and identify and implement solutions and corrective actions.
• Inform Logistics of any delays in product delivery and implement solutions to reduce them.
• Ensure compliance with Occupational Health and Safety regulations and coordinate the implementation of preventive actions, as well as monitor the effectiveness, compliance, and adequacy of the HSE management system to achieve the defined objectives.
• Support the practical training of staff under your responsibility, ensuring functional polyvalence.
• Lead production processes to guarantee manufacturing and delivery of customer orders while meeting agreed deadlines, costs, and quality standards.
• Supervise, plan, and organize the human and material resources of the plant to ensure the suitability and integrity of manufacturing means and processes.
• Analyze manufacturing issues, develop and implement corrective measures that optimize production.
• Prepare the resource and equipment budget based on the manufacturing forecasts received, ensuring production capacity and, when necessary, adopt corrective measures to address deviations.
• Establish fluid information flows with other departments of the Plant in order to ensure the planned productivity at the lowest cost and highest quality.
• Promote, coordinate, and control the prevention management system.
• Ensure compliance with safety, health, and environmental regulations.
• Ensure compliance with the preventive maintenance assigned to the facilities.
• Define and review the objectives of the Supervisors.
• Be responsible for continuous improvement in all aspects within the area of responsibility of the department.
• Know, understand, and promote the Ethics Code and the Management Code.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Knowledge

• System auditing (ISO) – General knowledge
• Product and process auditing
• Internal quality assurance system
• Order and cleanliness auditing – General knowledge
• Basic data management
• Planning software application – Daily use
• Suppliers – Detailed knowledge
• Process – Detailed knowledge
• Operational procedures
• Productivity ratios + Detailed production control
• Machinery, facilities, sub‑plants
• Labor relations / internal regulations
• Shift management optimization
• Time measurement (time studies) – General knowledge
• Product (functional and quality requirements)
• Product (bill of materials)
• Knowledge of customer organization and operations
• Occupational risk prevention regulations
• Company agreements and/or collective bargaining agreements
• FES School

Experience

• 3 years in a production department as Production Manager or in the Logistics Department.
• Preferably with experience in the automotive sector.

Leadership Competencies

• Resilience and adversity management
• Strategic vision
• Responsibility
• Growth‑oriented mindset
• Critical thinking
• Knowledge‑based decision making
• Communication skills
• Ability to motivate teams
• Active listening
• Empathy
• Inclusive and diverse team‑management perspective
• Respect

What we can do for you

• Engaging and dynamic environment with opportunities for career development.
• Being part of the seventh‑largest global automotive supplier, with employees in more than 40 countries.
• Support for lifelong learning with more than 22 hours of online and in‑person training per employee through FORVIA University.
• Multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration, with gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
• Commitment to achieving CO2 Net Zero, certified under the SBTI Net‑Zero Standard, with focus on recyclability and circular economy.

Why join us

FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility, driving change in the automotive industry with expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions.