Plant Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Automotive Manufacturing | Southeast Michigan

Position Overview

The Quality Manager lead the quality function within an automotive manufacturing environment. This position will establish quality priorities, strengthen systems and processes, improve key performance measures, and work closely with manufacturing and engineering leadership.

The ideal candidate brings strong automotive quality experience, a track record of improving manufacturing quality performance, strong formal problem solving and corrective action experience and the ability to effectively manage customer quality concerns.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the quality function, establishing clear priorities, expectations, and accountability.
• Partner with manufacturing, engineering, and operations leadership to develop quality objectives, improvement initiatives, risk-reduction plans, and resource priorities.
• Drive improvement in customer complaints, PPM, scrap, rework, containment, cost of poor quality, audit results, and corrective-action effectiveness.
• Maintain compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, customer-specific requirements, and applicable quality standards.
• Strengthen problem-solving practices involving containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, verification of effectiveness, and prevention of recurrence.
• Ensure PFMEAs, Control Plans, inspection standards, work instructions, process controls, and other quality documentation are accurate and effective.
• Lead the response to internal and external quality concerns, ensuring timely containment and sustainable corrective actions.
• Build productive customer relationships through proactive communication, responsiveness, and effective resolution of quality issues.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing on product launches, process changes, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Support the resolution of supplier quality concerns in coordination with appropriate internal resources.
• Lead quality reviews, audits, corrective-action follow-up, escalation activities, and management review.
• Develop the quality team through coaching, cross-training, succession planning, and capability development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or a related discipline preferred.
• 8-12 years of progressive quality experience within automotive manufacturing, including quality leadership responsibility. Multi-plant Quality experience preferred.
• Plastic injection molding process experience strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of IATF 16949, ISO 9001, APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, SPC, MSA, Control Plans, and 8D/root-cause analysis
• Experience working directly with automotive customers to resolve quality concerns.
• Demonstrated success improving quality performance within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.