Plant Quality Lead: Drive Excellence in Automotive Quality

Calqulate Metrics Ltd; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Calqulate Metrics Ltd. seeks a Plant Quality Lead to oversee quality activities across our manufacturing facility and lead the Quality Engineering team.

This role ensures adherence to customer requirements and IATF 16949 standards while collaborating with Operations and Engineering to drive continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in automotive quality, strong leadership, and proven experience guiding corrective actions, audits, and quality-system advancement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related field preferred.
• 5+ years of quality experience in an automotive manufacturing or supplier environment.
• Minimum 2–3 years of supervisory or direct people-management experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing Quality Engineers.
• Strong knowledge of IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and automotive customer requirements.
• Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, and 8D.
• Experience managing customer quality issues, audits, and corrective actions.
• Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, supervise, coach, and develop the plant Quality Engineering team.
• Establish team priorities, assign responsibilities, and hold team members accountable.
• Oversee daily quality activities and ensure manufacturing processes meet requirements.
• Maintain and improve the plant Quality Management System per IATF 16949 and customer requirements.
• Lead resolution of customer complaints, corrective actions, and 8D responses.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions to prevent defects.
• Oversee APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, SPC, and MSA activities.
• Monitor quality metrics including customer PPM, scrap, rework, and cost of poor quality.
• Lead internal, external, and customer audits.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to drive process improvements and reduce defects.
• Communicate quality performance and improvement initiatives to plant leadership.
• Promote a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Skills

IATF 16949

ISO 9001

Automotive requirements

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Organization

Quality leadership

Customer audits

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Quality/Manufacturing or related field

5+ years automotive quality experience

2–3 years supervisory experience

Tools

APQP/PPAP/FMEA

Job description

Calqulate Metrics Ltd. seeks a Plant Quality Lead to oversee quality activities across our manufacturing facility and lead the Quality Engineering team.

This role ensures adherence to customer requirements and IATF 16949 standards while collaborating with Operations and Engineering to drive continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in automotive quality, strong leadership, and proven experience guiding corrective actions, audits, and quality-system advancement.