Regional Quality Technical Manager

Astemo Indiana•Farmington Hills, MI

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Execute BRBU Regional Quality strategy to support successful program launches, support sites/ROD on critical quality issues. This role involves quality assurance on new projects during development phases, including APQP, PPAP, Run at Rate, and SOP, ensuring adherence to customer quality requirements and lessons learned. It also includes managing quality assurance in the mass production phase, maintaining KPI dashboards, and supporting the escalation and management of severe quality issues. The position facilitates communication between ROD, BU, and central functions, and supports customer escalations.

Requirements

Knowhow in quality processes, standards and tools
Product Liability knowledge
Change management skills
Crisis management skills
Problem solving tools
Fluent English
Analytical & Problem Solving
Managerial Courage
Implementation & Results Orientation
Relationship Building & Networking
Stress & Pressure / Being Resilient
Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering or equivalent
At least 5 years of experience in automotive industry
Qualification in: APQP, PPAP, ISO/TS…
Familiar with Honda, Ford quality system.

Responsibilities

Perform project quality audits during APQP phases, from customer kick-off through project gates (PG1–PG4), including PPAP, Run at Rate, and SOP.
Support the team to follow customer quality requirements and lessons learned are applied.
Proactively escalate deviations impacting compliance, product quality, or SOP timing.
Support shipment release decisions based on quality risk assessment and containment status.
Support BU quality tasks on Change Management (CHM) activities are properly executed according to customer requirements, with risks identified, assessed, and mitigated.
Maintain regional quality KPI dashboards with updated performance metrics, risk status, and action plan progress.
Support proper escalation and management of severe quality issues.
Support horizontal deployment of lessons learned.
Facilitate communication between ROD, BU and central functions.
Support customer escalations and maintain alignment between ROD and BU.