Engineering Quality Manager, North America

Veoneer Safety Systems USA•Southfield, MI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Veoneer Safety Systems is seeking a North America Engineering Quality Manager to lead quality across U.S. product development programs. The role partners with Engineering, Program Management, Operations, Supplier Quality, and Customer Quality to strengthen risk prevention, process discipline, and release readiness across systems, software, and hardware development. The successful candidate provides an independent, evidence-based perspective, constructively challenges decisions, and serves as a trusted partner to engineering and business leaders. The manager translates global Engineering Quality priorities into a regional strategy with measurable objectives, drives quality governance, and partners with engineering and program leaders to identify risks early and resolve quality concerns. The role assesses engineering-process maturity, develops focused improvement plans, applies risk-based quality approaches, strengthens technical and release reviews, monitors quality indicators, and ensures corrective actions and lessons learned are sustained. The position ensures processes and evidence meet customer, regulatory, and relevant automotive standards, including IATF 16949, ISO 26262, automotive cybersecurity, and Automotive SPICE. It supports assessments and closure of findings, strengthens quality planning across systems, software, and hardware, and ensures traceability from customer requirements and safety goals through implementation and verification. The manager integrates quality execution with program and project management, including quality gates, risk reviews, readiness assessments, escalation, and issue closure. The role also leads and develops the North America Engineering Quality team, coaches engineering teams, and represents Engineering Quality in tollgate, leadership, and customer reviews, providing independent readiness assessments and recommending a gate hold when criteria are not met. The position is based in Southfield, Michigan, with up to 10% domestic and international travel, and reports to the Global Director, Engineering Quality.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in automotive or another safety-critical product development environment.
At least 3 years leading people or major cross-functional quality initiatives.
Strong knowledge of systems, software, and hardware development lifecycles.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a complex, multi-site engineering organization.
Embedded automotive experience.

Responsibilities

Translate global Engineering Quality priorities into a regional strategy with measurable objectives.
Drive regional quality governance through decision criteria, escalation paths, management reviews, and follow-through.
Partner with engineering and program leaders to identify risks early, prevent defects and rework, and resolve quality concerns before they affect milestones or customers.
Assess engineering-process maturity from requirements through release and convert gaps into focused improvement plans.
Apply risk-based quality approaches tailored to product complexity, safety classification, customer needs, and program risk.
Strengthen technical and release reviews through clear criteria, expert participation, risk-based challenge, and disciplined closure of findings.
Monitor quality indicators and ensure lessons learned, corrective actions, and read-across improvements are implemented and sustained.
Ensure processes and evidence meet customer and regulatory requirements and applicable automotive standards.
Enforce complete, traceable, audit-ready work products that support release decisions.
Lead or support assessments and drive timely, sustainable 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, practical standards, lessons learned, and targeted training.
Align program-level quality execution with the global quality approach, including quality gates, risk reviews, readiness assessments, escalation, and issue closure.
Partner with Engineering and Program Management to strengthen planning, milestone readiness, prioritization, change control, and issue management.
Lead and develop the North America Engineering Quality team through priorities, coaching, training, feedback, and capability planning.
Engage engineering and business leaders early to challenge risks and embed quality requirements in architecture, design, and execution.
Represent Engineering Quality in tollgate, leadership, and customer reviews; provide independent readiness assessments and recommend gate holds when required criteria are not met.