QUALITY PLANT ENGINEER LEAD (QPEL)

Stellantis Financial Services; Toluca; Híbrido; MXN 700.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Stellantis plant in Toluca seeks a Plant Quality Engineer Lead to oversee quality systems for multiple commodities within the vehicle architecture. You will lead quality programs, provide technical support to both hourly and salaried personnel, and collaborate with Manufacturing and Engineering to drive improvements.

The role requires strong RCA experience, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to guide teams through high‑throughput, high‑stakes campaigns while working off shift

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of related experience in engineering or quality.
• Experience in an Engineering Department, Vehicle Plant or Project team.
• Ability to lead an Engineering team to deliver product changes and launches on time.
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective actions.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work off shift hours as necessary.
• Self-motivated and directed.
• Thrives in a high intensity environment with multiple projects.
• High proficiency in verbal and written English.

Responsabilidades

• Lead quality systems and programs across multiple commodities.
• Provide technical support to hourly and salaried personnel.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing and Engineering.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across all functions.
• Conduct daily and weekly quality-focused meetings and escalations.
• Define containment actions and conduct risk assessments.
• Lead corrective action plans and product/process maturity efforts.
• Set up controls for vehicle and system functional objectives.
• Escalate issues with Quality Plant Engineering Manager as needed.
• Support decisions to hold or revive vehicles to avoid rework.

Conocimientos

Quality leadership

Root Cause Analysis

Communication

Team leadership

English proficiency

Shift flexibility

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Herramientas

CQI

WIS

QNA

PFS

FIS

GIMS

Palantir

Descripción del empleo

Join the Quality team at Stellantis as a Plant Quality Engineer Lead (QPEL) at the Toluca Complex. This strategic role spans multiple commodities within the entire vehicle architecture and offers the opportunity to contribute to transforming the automotive industry. You will lead quality systems and programs, provide technical support to both hourly and salaried personnel, collaborate with Manufacturing and Engineering, and drive continuous improvement initiatives across all functional areas.

Specific responsibilities are:

• Daily Operational Production meetings with Quality Plant Engineering Manager and their team, control tower to deal with quality issues / production.
• Weekly meetings with Supplier Quality Development, ENG/CCLP Cross Car Line & Project, MFG/VPE/GAPE
• Convening of the site director's / quality managers of the most failing supplier sites. Meetings with suppliers.
• The holder of this function must contribute to improving the quality level of new and customer vehicles in a context of ever more ambitious quality objectives.
• Autonomous in the decision (or to lead if necessary) to modify the automotive product or the process to guarantee the quality of the vehicles.
• Support the Quality Plant Engineering Manager to make decision to hold vehicles and market vehicles as soon as possible in order to avoid increasing outstanding rework area (issues on retouching costs and customer delivery time)
• Define containment actions to apply for customer protection (including supplier Issues)
• Do risk assessments and lead corrective action plans
• Guarantee the product - process maturity of the components of his perimeter management of serial life (windows change management).
• Propose alternative product solution in case of issues (as shortage) to avoid stopping mass production in the plant
• Implementation of standards (Read Across)
• Lead quality KPI management to achieve quality objectives, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation
• Resolution of systemic/chronic or major quality issues (Top Warranty, Recalls)
• Technical support Yard Holds / Product Related Issues (PRI's) technical referent inside the PRI.
• Set-up / On-going Controls for Process / product Standards for Vehicle & System Functional Objectives (i.e. ADAS, BSR, FEA)
• Escalate as needed with Quality Plant Engineering Manager and/or Manager FQM of his Quality Meta Function
• Evaluate & Restore Hand-Over Profession ENG milestone to anticipate drift
• Pilot points of change to implement actions necessary to secure flow

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
• 8+ years of related experience
• Previous experience in an Engineering Department, Vehicle Plant or Project team
• Ability to lead an Engineering team to deliver product changes and launches on time
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective actions
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal from Executive meetings to the Shop Floor
• Ability to work off shift hours as necessary
• Self-motivated and directed
• Ability to thrive in a high intensity environment while working on multiple projects
• High proficiency in verbal and written English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree
• Reactive Green Belt or Black Belt certification
• Previous experience working in Manufacturing and a union environment
• Knowledge of Stellantis systems: CQI, WIS, QNA, PFS, FIS, GIMS, Palantir, etc.
• Stellantis Production Way (SPW) & World Class Manufacturing (WCM) experience