Head of Quality Management

Your Contribution

As Head of Quality Management, you will be responsible for leading the entire Quality organization across MAHLE Dayton’s North and South facilities, ensuring customer satisfaction, product quality, compliance with automotive quality standards, and continuous improvement throughout the manufacturing operation. This role will provide strategic and operational leadership for a Quality team of approximately 85 employees supporting thermal management and powertrain cooling product lines.

• Structure all quality related work in regards to cost and timeline.

• Coordinate the work packages of Quality and ensure timely decisions in core team and extended team.

• Support of Project Manager and involved domains in their exercise of quality related tasks with methods and tools.

• Create transparency and ensure proper reporting of quality related issues in Core Team and committees (incl. escalation).

• Ensure integration of known lessons learned within project (related to product and production concept).

• Create failure eradication plan and difference analysis.

• Create and update quality plan.

• Ensure adherence to prevailing guidelines (group policies, internal standards, etc.).

• Ensure application of relevant norms.

• Ensure adoption of provided QM-methods (e.g. Functional Analysis, FMEA, DOE, PPAP, SPC, 8-D).

• Support gap analysis.

• Support review of customer requirements.

• Support creation of design verification plan.

• Other duties as assigned.

Your Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent from an accredited four-year college or university with a minimum 5 to 8 years of related experience within the automotive industry focusing on Quality systems.

• Lead Auditor Training TS 16949.

• VDA 6.3 Auditor Training.

Our Offer

We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with ongoing personal & career development opportunities.

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

After receiving your online application, the interview process will typically be, a screening call followed by Personal Interview(s)

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MAHLE is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment based non-immigrant and immigrant visas. However, as a global company, MAHLE offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website

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