Faurecia invites qualified candidates to apply for their Graduate Intern positions (5 posts). Don’t miss out – the closing date for applications is 23 July 2024.
Join the Team as a Quality Graduate Intern!
Looking to kickstart your career in quality management? Forvia is offering an exciting opportunity for new graduates to join as Quality Graduate Interns. This role is perfect for those who are eager to learn, grow, and make a real impact in the industry.
What You’ll Do
As a Quality Graduate Intern, you’ll have a variety of responsibilities, ensuring every day is different and exciting. Here’s what you can expect:
- Daily Routine: Follow a structured routine to stay organized and productive.
- Document Management: Create and manage documents, control versions, and communicate updates via the intranet.
- Control Plan & FMEA Updates: Regularly update and review these critical documents to maintain high-quality standards.
- Archiving: Safely archive obsolete documents and important records.
- Communication: Send newsletters and alerts, and conduct awareness training sessions.
- Post-Audit Tasks: Handle post-audit administration, investigations, and corrective actions.
- Audit Readiness: Conduct gap analyses and prepare for audits, assisting auditors during the process.
- Audit Calendar: Update and upload the audit calendar every month.
- Risk Analysis: Participate in risk analysis and mitigation activities for quality, health & safety, and environmental standards.
- 8QB Audit: Upload the 8QB Audit results every month.
- Contingency Plan Management: Ensure the Contingency Plan and backup test plan are up-to-date and compliant.
- Training: Conduct training sessions for new employees on document control and quality standards.
- Reporting: Update weekly and monthly reports to track progress.
- Meetings: Attend daily, weekly, and monthly meetings to stay aligned with the team.
- Consumables Management: Manage the consumables needed by the department.
- Support Tasks: Assist the Quality Manager and department with various tasks.
- Calendar Management: Organize and manage the department’s calendar and diary.
- Data Analysis: Consolidate, analyze, and report data to drive improvements.
- Problem Solving: Use techniques like 8D, 5 Whys, and Ishikawa for root cause analysis.
- NQC Reduction: Lead efforts to reduce non-quality costs (NQC).
- General Tasks: Handle general office tasks and place orders as needed.
Qualifications and Experience
To be considered for this role, you should have:
- A Matric certificate.
- A diploma in a related field, ideally Quality Management or Administration.
- Strong knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Understanding of quality and management standards like VDA, AIAG, IATF16949:2016, OHSAS 18001, and ISO 14001.
- Knowledge of customer requirements and specifications.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong administrative skills and systematic behavior.
- The ability to stay organized and perform well under pressure.
What We Value
As a Quality Graduate Intern, you’ll embody these key values:
- Quality Mindset: Always striving for quality in everything you do.
- Compliance: Being diligent and ensuring all tasks comply with relevant standards.
- Analytical Thinking: Using data to drive decisions and solve problems.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Being goal-oriented and finding solutions to challenges.
- Time Management: Managing your time effectively to meet deadlines.
- Continuous Improvement: Always looking for ways to improve processes.
- Ethics and Integrity: Upholding the company’s code of ethics, which includes respecting fundamental rights, fostering economic and social dialogue, developing skills, and maintaining ethical business conduct.
Production Trainee/Intern
Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader
YES GRADUATE PROGRAMME (X2) –FCM PLZ
Job title: Yes Graduate
Location: FCM Port Elizabeth
Department: Production/UAP
Reports to: UAP Manager
Contract: 12 months contract as part of our Graduate program
Closing date for applications: 23 July 2024
New trends and expectations are reshaping the automotive industry. Inspired by the exciting new challenges associated with this revolution, Faurecia anticipates the future of mobility developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. If you’re willing to contribute and create value for tomorrow’s cleaner and smarter mobility, Faurecia is the place to be.
Your mission, roles and responsibilities
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
The role of the Yes Graduate is to manage the production performance, personnel issues and the Health, Safety&Environment (HSE) standards of several Autonomous Production Groups (GAP). The main mission of the role are to:
• Lead the Quality Cost & Delivery (QCD) Performance for designated groups:
o Direct QCD initiatives: set targets, implement plans, track daily results, make appropriate adjustments in resource planning in order to attain desired results.
o Drive actions for improvement: communicate with the Autonomous Production Unit Manager, Production Supervisors of other shifts, and support functions to ensure a transparent information flow, collaborate to define improvement areas and precise action plans.
o Manage team performance: know team problems, define areas for performance improvements with team members, drive teamwork, lead problem solving groups, lead workshops on quality improvement methods (5S, TPM, 6M…).
• Manage the personnel issues of the assigned team:
o Ensure daily team management: assure appropriate headcount, ensure the respect of standardised work methods, assure presence on the floor to answer questions or address problems.
o Develop the team: ensure proper staffing, integrate new team members, foster individual development plans, advise and arrange for appropriate training, assure punctual job evaluations, etc.
• Ensure that working conditions are fully compliant with Group HSE standards: interfere in production line in case of safety risks and drive improvement of working conditions and ergonomics
Your profile and competencies to succeed
The ideal candidate will have/be:
• 3-year National Diploma or B-Tech in Production Management or Industrial Engineering
• Computer literacy at Intermediate level essential
• Have a sound understanding of Work study principles and Work measurement tools
• A detail orientated person with analytical abilities and a structured and methodological way. Dynamic and proactive behaviour.
• 70% overall achievement on full academic results.
• Age between 18-35
• Never been registered with the Y.E.S Youth Program before
Interested applicants are to submit a comprehensive CV, coupled with copies of their academic results, qualifications and ID via the online portals 23 July 2024. Incomplete and late applications will not be considered. Only applicants who meet the minimum requirements will be considered for an interview. Should you not meet the minimum requirements or have not been contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful
Faurecia supports the principles embodied in the Employment Equity Act and as such, preference will be given to candidates who will add to the diversity of our organization.
Purchasing Graduate
Main purpose of the role
The IDP Purchasing Graduate is responsible for supporting the plants needs and services for all four plants through Guided Buying & Faurecia Spend Management.
Essential responsibilities and duties
As a Purchasing Graduate, your main responsibilities are as follow:
- Assist in monitoring of ARIBA and ensuring ICB compliance.
- Assist in ensuring KPI’S are met with primary focus on achieving best pricing and cost savings managed through PAP/GPS
- Responsible for managing SLP (MDM) by creating & extending vendors.
- Support with MFC workshops across all 4 plants
- Month end reporting – PO after invoice.
- Launching of RFQ’S
- NRFT
- Managing fixed assets (ZFCA po Type) (Fleet – Forklifts, cars, printers, real estate)
- Managing price variance & payment queries
- Analysing & Submitting contracts (SLA) via DocuSign
Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate will have/be:
- Education: National Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Purchasing, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or a Business-related qualification.
- Knowledge and experience:
- Limited experience required
- Knowledge of productivity / lean management methodology
- Knowledge of Purchasing, production, quality and logistics
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of products and technology
- Languages: Ability to speak, write and read the English language.
- Drivers licence beneficial
Series Productivity Buyer
Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader
We pioneer technology for mobility experience that matter to people.
Your mission, roles and responsibilities
- Contribute to the identification and implementation of productivity actions (product / process) for cost reduction, in close coordination with Commodity teams
- Monitor productivity performance for supplier perimeter through cross-functional teamwork in the plants under his/her responsibility (i.e. productivity committees). Present to the plants management board the productivity plan
- Challenge Commodity Buyers to achieve the Purchasing Budget for his/her plants
- For most critical topics, support the Supply Chain team to improve supplier deviation in Misdeliveries Per Million (MPM)
- Be involved in the kick off in program phase to prepare the start of Production. Lead transfers meetings with Program
- Buyers at the take-over
- Lead negotiation for Engineering Change Requests within his/her perimeter, and product productivity, in close relationship with commodities
- Support the plant in terms of Supplier’s Quality/Delivery issues
- Manage the prices discrepancies and monitor payment issues
- Identify and implement productivities in line with budget with suppliers in buyer’s scope
Your profile and competencies to succeed
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Logistics, Business or Engineering / Related Qualification
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in purchasing, production, or sales, within the automotive industry of which at least 3 years must be as a senior buyer.
- Experience of successfully managing and negotiating contracts
- Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledge of productivity (cost saving) initiatives and lean management methodology
- Knowledge of production, quality and logistics
- Knowledge of products and technology in automotive sector
- Knowledge of Supplier audit process and quality management
- Understanding of sourcing strategies and application (make or buy analysis)
- Ability to work in matrix organization
- Good communication and interpersonal skill
- International mindset
- Capacity to influence
- Strong written and oral presentation skills
What we can do for you
- At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
- We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
- We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
- We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
- We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
- Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.
Why join us
FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility. We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.
With a history stretching back more than a century, we are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries. You’ll find our technology in around 1 out of 2 vehicles produced anywhere in the world.
In June 2022, we became the 1st global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard. We have committed to reach CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.
As technological innovation and the need for sustainability transform the automotive industry, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions that will enhance the lives of road-users everywhere.
Finance Trainee/Intern
| Job title | Finance Graduate |
| Department | Country Finance |
| Location | Cape Town |
| Duration | 12 months fixed term contract |
Main purpose of the role
The Finance Graduate will be responsible for various support activities in the Finance Shared Service Centre.
The main missions will be as follows:
- Provide support for statutory and management accounting to AM
- Fixed asset function including Register, AUC, GL and depreciation.
- Intercompany reconciliation process.
- Balance sheet reconciliations – Manual and Subsystem
- Support with statutory tasks; EMP201 submissions, STATS SA Monthly report submissions, BBBEE
purchases for supplier spend
Qualifications and position requirements
The ideal graduate will have/be:
- Minimum a BCOM degree in Financial Accounting
- An academic record maintaining an overall 70% pass mark.
- Strong analytical and problem solving-skills.
- Strong customer satisfaction orientation.
Governance
As an employee, you are also required to :
Secure internal control with the support of financial controller and finance network
Abide by the Faurecia Code of Ethics. The code is summarised as below:
o Respect for fundamental rights.
o Development of economic and social dialogue.
o Development of skills.
o Ethics and business conduct.
Special authority
External authority
Should you hold a specific Senior Management position, you will receive your power of authority from the Faurecia Board of Directors. A copy of the Directors’ resolution as well as the matrix reflecting the Proxy holder’s signature as acceptance of the delegation will be placed in the employee file.
Internal authority
Delegation for Financial Matters needs to be accepted and signed by the employee as well as by the N+1 who would have received the same delegation from their N+1. A copy of the matrix will be placed in the employee file.
Delegation for Banking Release and Banking System Administrator is given by two Senior Managers. A separate matrix is signed by the delegators as well as the proxy holders, and placed on the employee file.
Apply today to join a dynamic team where your contributions will make a significant impact. This is your chance to start a rewarding career in quality management and gain valuable experience!
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