Senior Supervisor, Quality Control (IPM)
About The Position
The Production Quality Control Sr. Supervisor (IPM) provides day-to-day leadership for quality control activities supporting Intelligent Power Module (IPM) and Power Module (PM) production. The role focuses on reducing Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ), managing daily production quality issues, protecting customers, and establishing disciplined quality-control routines for launch and stable mass production. The position directly leads the IPM Quality Control Engineer and Quality Control Technical Associate (QCTA). It facilitates scrap-reduction projects, manages L2L quality dispatches involving out-of-specification conditions, machine checks, and quality checks, and leads weekly internal IPM CoPQ reviews. The supervisor works with Production, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and other support functions to ensure timely containment, root cause, corrective action, and sustained improvement. The role requires leadership, analytical and structured problem-solving ability, sound judgment in responding to abnormal conditions, and effective communication across hourly, technical, and management levels. It also includes developing team capabilities and supporting a clean, safe, and orderly work environment. The work takes place in factory, controlled manufacturing, and engineering/laboratory environments with production noise, and involves PPE, ESD controls, contamination controls, and product-handling requirements. Shift flexibility, overtime, and limited travel may be required for launch, trials, training, customer response, or production support.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- At least 10 years of experience in manufacturing, quality control, quality engineering, production supervision, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of leadership, supervisory, team-lead, or project-lead experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading scrap reduction, structured problem solving, containment, root cause analysis, corrective action, and measurable quality improvement.
- Working knowledge of quality data analysis, nonconforming-material control, inspection systems, PFMEA, control plans, standard work, and change control.
- Ability to coordinate urgent quality response and communicate risk, priorities, performance, and recovery actions across hourly, technical, and management levels.
- Strong leadership presence and ability to set priorities, facilitate cross-functional projects, coach associates, make fact-based decisions, and escalate risk promptly.
- Advanced analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail and follow-through.
- Ability to translate scrap, rework, dispatch, defect, process, and customer data into focused improvement actions and measurable CoPQ results.
- Ability to recognize abnormal conditions, protect the customer, stop or contain production when required, and coordinate recovery actions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively across Production, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and Management.
- Professional conduct, integrity, confidentiality, teamwork, and commitment to a clean, safe, and orderly work environment.
- Ability and willingness to promote and carry out the Astemo Mission, “The Blueprint,” and expected standards of conduct.
- Intermediate skills in Windows, Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; visual ability to work accurately with detailed information and a computer screen; full motor skills; and ability to stand, walk, bend, and sit for long periods during the workday.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Experience in automotive, electronics, semiconductor, power electronics, or high-precision manufacturing.
- Experience with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, APQP, PPAP, SPC, MSA, capability studies, 8D, 5 Why, fishbone analysis, and layered process audits.
- Experience leading CoPQ reduction involving scrap, rework, sorting, containment, premium freight, warranty, or customer-related quality cost.
- Experience supporting new-model launch, process validation, production readiness, and transition to mass production.
Responsibilities
- Lead Quality Control team activities and provide direct leadership to the IPM Quality Control Engineer and Quality Control Technical Associate (QCTA).
- Manage daily production quality issues and containment to protect the customer.
- Drive corrective actions, escalation, root cause analysis, and structured problem solving; verify corrective-action effectiveness.
- Lead CoPQ and scrap-reduction initiatives, including scrap-reduction projects and weekly IPM CoPQ review meetings.
- Manage L2L quality dispatches involving out-of-specification conditions, machine checks, and quality checks.
- Improve PFMEA and PQCT controls and strengthen defect prevention and detection.
- Support cross-functional process improvements and new-model launch readiness and validation.
- Ensure ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 compliance.
- Develop Quality Control team capability by planning assignments and coverage, setting expectations, coaching and providing feedback, and supporting selection, onboarding, qualification, and corrective action in accordance with company policy.
- Coordinate temporary cross-functional containment, scrap-reduction, and problem-solving teams based on quality risk and production needs.
- Communicate quality risk, priorities, performance, and recovery actions across hourly, technical, and management levels.
- Use L2L and production, quality, traceability, document-control, and reporting systems to manage dispatches, analyze trends, and track actions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
