Valeo reviews

Senior directors are part of an old boys network who only care about their own progress. Mid managers are squeezed from the top to push their staff into unreasonable commitments. They’re often ill trained and resort to bullying in some cases, to pressurise engineers to cut corners and hit the unreasonable deadlines. Product quality is always the last priority after time and money. Quality team are not sufficiently supported to do their job and some senior members are not respected within the organisation. The company management was restructured from the top down in 2017 which resulted in a sprawling monster of an RandD department. This resulted in too many telling too few, what to do, how they were doing it wrong and offering very little direction or accountability, due to the individual ability to hide behind the unnecessarily confusing departmental structure. A duplication and remerging of the RandD structure up to this restructuring activity, left so many people managers with no real job that the restructuring activity was about appeasing people that their job was relevant rather than creating a structure that was efficient. There’s very little chance of real progression in RandD now as there are so many managers in the queue for promotion. Morale is less than low, everybody knows it, lives it and suffers it, but only until they can find another job or move back to the country they were originally coxed from. Some of the project management team try their best - but they’re under trained, over worked and used as cannon fodder in front of the customers to cover holes in budget and resourcing. Some of the directors are absolute tyrants and have been this way for many years, they will continue to be this way as it is accepted behaviour. Only expect to progress if you’re a lapdog to upper management as they have little interest beyond self preservation.

Communication between HR and general operators is terrible. Breaks are timed by bells. Poor wage in comparison with other factories in Galway. High staff turnover due to poor treatment of general operators. HR staff highly insensitive to operators needs. No incentives for operators to work/hit targets. Canteen food is disgusting. Ergonomics on shop floor are terrible, failure to rotate staff between different roles results in injuries e.g. Back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, No temporary or full time seated positions available. Compulsory ESD shoes were deemed dangerous by a qualified podiatrist I visited. I was told excessive wear of said shoes cause foot, back, and knee pain due to the shape of the sole. Training provided to new staff is completely ineffective. New operators are being trained by operators that are training themselves. I have seen multiple trainers attempting to train new operators on machines they don't know how to use themselves, Laughable.. This is the main reason for all rework. New operators don't know what they're doing due to lack of training and produce poor quality product as a result. Zero job satisfaction for General Operators, brain-dead work, slowly being replaced by automated machines.