Quality Manager

Brose•Warren, MI

About The Position

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Requirements

Degree in Engineering or other Quality/Management-related discipline.
ISO 14001 and ISO/TS 16949 Qualified Knowledge.
3 to 5 years’ experience in automotive quality-related work with experience in internal quality auditing, customer quality issues, supplier quality issues and Advanced Product Quality Planning, warranty analysis and problem solving.

Responsibilities

Maintain overall Quality & Environment Management System within industry and Brose guidelines.
Responsible for all TS 16949 and I S O 14001 related issues, internally and externally.
Oversee the actions of internal processes and system audits; conduct internal audits on-site.
Oversee the activities for the Quality & Environment team for the benefit of communizing practices.
Plan, apply, monitor and control annual budget (including personnel planning) and implement counter‑measures.
Ensure local implementation and continuous improvement of the Quality and Environment Management Systems.
Define locally applicable quality specifications in alignment with Central Quality.
Monitor quality costs, perform internal benchmarking, analyze quality data and ensure corrective actions.
Maintain customer contact and satisfaction; prevent quality issues.
Ensure compliance with Health, Safety and Environmental requirements related to quality.
Lead, support and motivate employees including annual reviews, objectives and HR measures.
Job‑related leadership of Quality Engineers, inspectors and technicians (targets, performance, development).
Escalate and manage critical quality backlogs involving supervisors and quality staff.
Liaison with customers regarding quality concerns.
Support and maintain worldwide Brose quality and environmental standards.
Identify and maintain PPM ratio measurements.
Maintain and continuously improve process‑oriented quality systems and tracking procedures.
Lead ARGUS and act as Environmental/Health & Safety representative within the plant.
Evaluate effectiveness of the process system (e.g., internal audits across plant functions).
Define, monitor and control measures to improve the process system and ensure implementation.
Report process‑system effectiveness to top management and central QMR/EMR.
Promote awareness of customer requirements at all plant levels.
Knowledge of latest automotive industry and supplier requirements.
Product Safety Officer representative.
Meet internal control requirements on departmental activities.
Other duties assigned by Manager/Supervisor.