Apu Manager

**Date**:May 20, 2025

**Location**: VILLERS-BRETONNEUX, FR, 80800

**Company**:NOVARES
- Finality
- Manage the activity of his/her Autonomous Production Unit by optimising its operational,
quality, cost, deadline and safety performance and by complying with product conformity
requirements and adhering to deadlines required by its customers
- Main Missions

**1 - Manage his/her APU** Guarantee the performance of the APU and manage it daily
- Mobilise his/her teams focusing on short
- and medium-term objectives to be reached
- Adapt, organise and manage resources assigned to him/her taking into account variable presence/absence data
- Develop organisation and operating modes, encouraging more responsibility and autonomy to improve quality, productivity, flexibility and reactivity
- Manage the platform team specific to the APU
- Guarantee the interface with site support functions
- Optimise the costs of his/her APU and give reasons for choices

Make all operational decisions in his/her field and according to his/her scope of responsibilities
**2 - Coordinate daily activity**
Ensure communication within the APU and associated units
- Promote collective interest rather than individual interests
- Know the problems encountered by everyone, including operators
- Listen, help employees to understand and analyse the difficulties they encounter
- Help employees to perform tasks by giving tailored advice or by constructively questioning current performance
- With project teams, help to implement a new product or a new technology in his/her APU

Permanently manage and advise employees and coordinate their missions

**3 - Energise and develop the production system**
Transform his/her APU to adapt it to new requirements and develop either means, organisation or personnel skills in line with HR policy
- Improve overall productivity of processes and flows
- Prepare the APU for product/process developments
- Encourage everyone to contribute to progress (suggestions system, progress projects: 5S, SMED, TPM, kanban, GRP, etc.)
- Attain annual progress targets for his/her APU within the context of medium-term group and site directives

Structure, manage and optimise customer/supplier relations with support departments

**4 - Manage his/her activity**
Based on the objectives of his/her activity, prepare action plans and coordinate the missions of his/her team in a coherent manner
- Propose an annual operating budget for his/her activity, and ensure that it is adhered to
- Propose the necessary resources for attaining his/her objectives and implement, after approval of Plant Manager, the necessary actions for staff turnover (recruitment, transfers, dismissal/redundancy) and investments according to budgetary forecasts and labour constraints
- Monitor performance indicators for his/her activity, implement corrective actions if necessary and inform his/her teams of them
- Conduct annual performance reviews, set the objectives of his/her employees, then ensure deployment all the way down the hierarchy
- Develop the team's skills for the activity and propose individual and/or group training actions that are necessary to maintain performance levels of activities, in collaboration with the Plant Manager.
- Advise employees on professional development in agreement with the Plant Manager and promote internal mobility
- Propose salary increases in agreement with the Functional Manager within the framework of the group's salary policy
- Praise or condone the actions of employees as necessary
- Ensure that his/her teams remain motivated and that there is a good internal atmosphere
- Check and approve team members' expense claims (travel, etc.) and authorizations for absence/vacations
- Ensure that job descriptions are updated according to group procedures

Provide reports of his/her activity to the Plant Manager
- Purpose
- Manage the activity of his/her Autonomous Production Unit and guarantee quality, cost, deadline to our customers and safety to our employees
- Essential job functions
- Abilities
- Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management and planning skills
- Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with peers and colleagues across the organization, as well as, internal and external clients