Head of Quality Management

MAHLE • Dayton, OH

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About The Position

The Head of Quality Management leads the Quality organization across MAHLE Dayton’s North and South facilities. The role ensures customer satisfaction, product quality, compliance with automotive quality standards, and continuous improvement across manufacturing operations. It provides strategic and operational leadership to a Quality team of approximately 85 employees supporting thermal management and powertrain cooling product lines.

The position structures quality-related work in terms of cost and timeline, coordinates Quality work packages, and ensures timely decisions in core and extended teams. It supports project managers and involved domains with quality methods and tools, provides transparent reporting and escalation of quality issues, and ensures lessons learned are integrated into projects. The role also develops failure-eradication plans and quality plans, ensures adherence to guidelines and relevant standards, promotes the use of quality-management methods, and supports gap analysis, customer-requirement reviews, and design verification planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent from an accredited four-year college or university.
• A minimum of 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.

Responsibilities

• Structure quality-related work with regard to cost and timeline.
• Coordinate Quality work packages and ensure timely decisions in core and extended teams.
• Support project managers and involved domains in quality-related tasks using methods and tools.
• Ensure transparent reporting of quality issues in core teams and committees, including escalation.
• Ensure integration of known lessons learned into projects, including product and production concepts.
• Create failure-eradication plans and difference analyses.
• Create and update quality plans.
• Ensure adherence to applicable guidelines, including group policies and internal standards.
• Ensure application of relevant norms.
• Ensure the application of provided quality-management methods, such as Functional Analysis, FMEA, DOE, PPAP, SPC, and 8-D.
• Support gap analysis.
• Support review of customer requirements.
• Support creation of design verification plans.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Ongoing personal and career development opportunities
• Collaborative environment and exciting assignments

What This Job Offers

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