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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering quality initiatives within automotive and safety-critical environments, ensuring compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 26262, and Automotive SPICE standards. Capable of driving quality governance, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance product development processes.
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IATF 16949 ComplianceISO 26262 KnowledgeAutomotive SPICE ExperienceQuality Governance LeadershipCross-Functional Team Management
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Hard Skills
Requirements EngineeringRisk ManagementVerification and ValidationAPQPFMEA8DRoot-Cause AnalysisConfiguration ManagementAgile MethodologiesSystems Development Lifecycle
Soft Skills
LeadershipCoachingCommunicationAnalytical JudgmentStakeholder Management
Industry Keywords
AutomotiveSafety-Critical Product DevelopmentMulti-Site Engineering OrganizationEmbedded Automotive ExperienceChange Control
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCyber Security
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead North America Engineering Quality across U.S. product development programs
- Translate global Engineering Quality priorities into a regional strategy with measurable objectives
- Drive regional quality governance, decision criteria, escalation paths, and management reviews
- Partner with engineering and program leaders to identify risks, prevent defects and rework, and resolve quality concerns
- Assess engineering process maturity from requirements through release and create improvement plans
- Strengthen technical and release reviews using risk-based challenge and disciplined closure of findings
- Monitor quality indicators and implement lessons learned, corrective actions, and read-across improvements
- Ensure compliance with customer, regulatory, IATF 16949, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, and Automotive SPICE requirements
- Lead or support assessments and drive closure of findings
- Strengthen quality planning across systems, software, and hardware development, including interfaces, verification, validation, and change control
- Ensure end-to-end alignment and traceability from customer requirements and safety goals through implementation and verification
- Build engineering team capability through coaching, standards, lessons learned, and training
- Align program-level quality execution with quality gates, risk reviews, readiness assessments, escalation, and issue closure
- Partner with Engineering and Program Management on planning, milestone readiness, prioritization, change control, and issue management
- Lead and develop the North America Engineering Quality team
- Represent Engineering Quality in tollgate, leadership, and customer reviews, providing independent readiness assessments and recommending gate holds when criteria are unmet
- Report to the Global Director, Engineering Quality
- Partner with U.S. Engineering, Program Management, Operations, Supplier Quality, Customer Quality, Functional Safety, and Cybersecurity
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field
- 10+ years in automotive or another safety-critical product development environment
- At least 3 years leading people or major cross-functional quality initiatives
- Experience in a complex, multi-site engineering organization strongly preferred
- Strong knowledge of systems, software, and hardware development lifecycles
- Embedded automotive experience preferred
- Experience managing platform and application dependencies, interfaces, integration points, shared components, and release alignment
- Working knowledge of IATF 16949, ISO 26262, automotive cybersecurity, Automotive SPICE, requirements engineering, traceability, configuration management, risk management, and verification and validation
- Hands-on experience with APQP, FMEA, 8D, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and lessons learned
- Experience integrating quality into Agile or scaled Agile planning, development, delivery, metrics, and retrospectives
- Strong analytical judgment, leadership, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills across functions, locations, and cultures
- Ability to work in Southfield, Michigan, United States
- Willingness to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally
Benefits
Comp & perks- Professional development and growth opportunities
- International and collaborative team environment
- Up to 10% domestic and international travel