Global Manager Testing & Validation

Hilite International • Norton Shores, MI

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About The Position

The Global Manager Testing & Validation provides strategic, technical, and organizational leadership for testing and validation activities worldwide. The role ensures consistent, efficient, and standards-compliant product verification across all development phases, from pre-development through series production release.

The position establishes global testing standards and comparable test results to support high product quality while accounting for regional requirements, OEM specifications, and regulatory guidelines. It serves as a central interface between development, quality, production, and customers, and leads regional teams across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or a comparable field.
• Typically 10 or more years of professional experience in testing, validation, or quality assurance in the automotive industry.
• Strong knowledge of automotive testing and release processes.
• Strong knowledge of product verification across the entire development cycle.
• Strong knowledge of standards, norms, and OEM testing requirements.
• Experience leading globally distributed, multicultural teams.
• Knowledge of test management tools and data analysis.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Business-fluent English skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with external test laboratories and regulatory authorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate regional testing and validation teams across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
• Define, implement, and enforce global test strategies, methods, and standards.
• Take overall responsibility for component, system, and vehicle testing.
• Ensure comparability and reproducibility of test results worldwide.
• Oversee functionality, performance, durability, environmental, media, climate, vibration, shock, reliability, robustness, and abuse testing.
• Ensure compliance with OEM requirements, international standards, and regulations.
• Approve test plans, validation reports, and series release documentation.
• Harmonize and optimize global test processes and infrastructure.
• Plan and optimize the use of test benches, laboratories, and external test service providers.
• Manage the budget for global testing activities and support make-or-buy decisions in the testing environment.
• Present test results to management and customers.
• Introduce new testing methods, such as virtual testing and HiL/SiL.
• Digitalize and standardize test documentation.
• Develop and maintain a global test roadmap.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager