Test and Validation Development Manager

Test&Validation Development Manager

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.

Management & Competency

• Manage his organization

• Manage his team of engineers and technicians (yearly reviews, meetings, missions, objectives)

• Define the necessary qualifications for his team according to the benchmark and to the technical and technological evolutions

• Ensure that competency level is at the level requested to properly handle new/future projects and

• new/future Technologies (in line with TDP). Identify gaps, define and implement the proper action plan

• Allocate his staff in the various projects and support Project team in priorities management.

• Propose trainings and career evolutions

• Responsible of recruitment of the members of his department

• Participate to the Valeo Expertise process by preparing and proposing candidate.

Budget

• Responsible of his department budget; build, propose and follow his budget

• Participate to project budget construction

• Propose yearly investment plan.

• Responsible of the Department efficiency using the Efficiency Plan built together with the Engineering discipline Manager / Director.

Process, Methodology, Tools, Equipment

• Ensure equivalence between results of the different equipments

• Participate to the definition of, and implement the process, methods and the tools necessary to properly handle new/future projects and new/future Technologies (in line with TDP)

• Deploy the Engineering process, methodology and tools defined by / together with the Engineering discipline Manager / Director

• Ensure the full deployment of 5 axes methodology

• Support the Certification process (CMMi, …) if applicable

Networking

•  Participate to and support the network of his Engineering discipline

•  Participate to the improvement of the standards, methods & tools of his Engineering discipline

Standardization & Robust Design

•  Support RAISE team by ensuring knowledge, training and implementation of the standards

•  Participates in the elaboration of standards with RAISE and actively participate to Design reviews

•  Review and challenge Destandardization requests before release

•  Ensure that each single design is achieving the highest level of Robust design.

Resources / Footprint

• Centralize information on all existing resources.

• Identify, create synergies and ensure optimum use of all resources

• Identify the needs in terms of dedicated and shared resources. Organize the availability of shared resources corresponding R&D Manager

• Continuously work with Engineering discipline Manager / Director. to improve his footprint and performances.

Job:

Engineering Disciplines Management, R&D Department/Product Manager

Organization:

Software Development

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Job Posting Date:

2026-05-29

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

Experience Level

Mid Level