Project Milestone Assessor

Stellantis; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

The Stellantis Quality organization in Auburn Hills, MI is seeking a Project Milestone Assessor to ensure launched products meet customer expectations across the six quality types. The role requires leading cross-functional teams, driving standardization, and providing hands-on leadership with integrity.

The successful candidate will manage project milestones, assess risks, deploy quality methods, and share lessons learned to improve standards across vehicle programs with partners and internal

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related technical field.
• 8+ years of quality, manufacturing, and/or design/release experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication across all levels.
• Ability to collect and synthesize data into meaningful information.
• Self-directed, team oriented with planning/problem-solving skills.
• Experience with computer systems and software.

Responsibilities

• Appreciates follow up of projects via KPI across quality, performance, cost, schedule, industrials, supply chain, and brand.
• Ensures all project deliverables are achieved at each milestone by interviewing project principals.
• Rates project risks and ensures corrective plans for QCDP gaps.
• Focuses on quality results for product and industrial.
• Draws up milestone assessments aligned with project development.
• Supports project and mass-production teams to deploy quality methods.
• Contributes to improving standards by sharing lessons learned.
• Documents lessons learned and shares them.
• Uses experience to update processes and methods.
• Links with PMK and project teams to feedback and follow convergence to milestones.
• Roadmaps actions to milestone based on topics rating.
• Draws milestone assessment and synthesis.
• Manages proofreading meetings with project and other directions involved.
• Ensures distribution of milestone assessments to the right people.
• Ensures correct implementation of project quality referential.
• Attends standards improvements meetings with own experience.
• Arranges meetings with principals to define action plans.
• Identifies good practices and captures lessons learned for other projects.

Skills

Communication

Team orientation

Problem solving

Software knowledge

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related technical field

Job description

The Stellantis Quality organization is currently seeking a highly skilled, solutions-oriented Project Milestone Assessor to join the Quality team in Auburn Hills, MI. The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring launched products exceed customer expectations as measured in the six types of Quality. This role serves as a support role in the independent review of the vehicle development process to ensure they are completed to an acceptable standard to deliver a quality product to the customer at the launch of a new product. The ideal candidate must have a proven track record of developing and executing standardization and leadership. The selected individual will have experience in managing cross-functional teams and possess a broad knowledge of the entire automotive engineering, manufacturing, and quality landscape. The candidate must be a high-energy, hands-on individual with strength of convictions -- a self-confident leader who, in part due to his/her personal presence, style, and demeanor, effectively sells ideas and solutions to others. Moreover, this person must have unquestioned integrity.

In the field of the Customer Experience, the Project Milestone Assessor:

• Appreciates the follow up of the Projects through different KPI (Quality, Performances, Cost, Time schedule, Industrial, Supply Chain, Brand, etc.)
• Ensures that all Project expected deliverables are achieved at each milestone by managing interviews with the main principals of the project
• Rates the risks of the projects. Ensures that all the objective (QCDP) risks or gaps have a corrective plan
• Pays specific attention to the Quality results (Product and Industrial)
• Draws up the milestone assessment according to the Project development
• Supports the Project Teams and Mass-production Teams to deploy the quality methods and all the methods needed to master the running and the achievement of the Product Quality and Quality Processes results
• Contributes to the improvement of the standards by bringing the lessons learned during the Project or Mass-production development
• Draws up the lessons learned and shares them
• Brings their experience to update or improve the processes or methods

Their scope is:

• The Vehicle Projects - The Projects developed with partners (JV or Partnership), as such, the PMA:
• Links with the PMK with the Project Teams (the RQP) in order to have regularly feedback and to follow the convergence to the deliverables expected for each milestone
• Establishes with the Project Team the roadmap of the actions to be done until the milestone, based on a rating of the topics to fulfill
• Draws up the milestone assessment and its synthesis
• Manages the proofreading meeting of the milestone assessment with the Project and the main principals of the other directions involved
• Ensures the final distribution of the milestone assessment is done to the right people in the company
• Ensures the right implementation of the project quality referential
• Attends to the methods or standards improvements meetings by bringing their own experience
• Arranges the meetings needed with the principals involved and the Project in order to help to define the action plans (If necessary)
• Identifies the good practices and analyzes the difficulties of the projects they have in their overall perimeter in order to save this information and to give his lessons learned to the other projects

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related technical field
• 8+ years of quality, manufacturing, and or design/release related experience
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to deal with a variety of people at all levels of the organization
• Ability to collect and synthesize data into meaningful information and communicate clearly to all levels of the organization
• Self-directed, team oriented with demonstrated planning/problem-solving skills
• Experience and working knowledge of computer systems and software required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build solid partnerships, both internally and externally
• Expertise in planning, prioritizing, and goal setting including the ability to manage multiple projects, determining project urgency, creating detailed action plans, and organizing schedules, people, and tasks
• Assertive and ambitious nature
• Motivated to learn new principles and ideas, and have excitement in applying these new principles
• Motivated to make a positive impact in the work environment and on the quality of the products produced

The Stellantis Quality organization is currently seeking a highly skilled, solutions-oriented Project Milestone Assessor to join the Quality team in Auburn Hills, MI. The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring launched products exceed customer expectations as measured in the six types of Quality. This role serves as a support role in the independent review of the vehicle development process to ensure they are completed to an acceptable standard to deliver a quality product to the customer at the launch of a new product. The ideal candidate must have a proven track record of developing and executing standardization and leadership. The selected individual will have experience in managing cross-functional teams and possess a broad knowledge of the entire automotive engineering, manufacturing, and quality landscape. The candidate must be a high-energy, hands-on individual with strength of convictions -- a self-confident leader who, in part due to his/her personal presence, style, and demeanor, effectively sells ideas and solutions to others. Moreover, this person must have unquestioned integrity.

In the field of the Customer Experience, the Project Milestone Assessor:

• Appreciates the follow up of the Projects through different KPI (Quality, Performances, Cost, Time schedule, Industrial, Supply Chain, Brand, etc.)
• Ensures that all Project expected deliverables are achieved at each milestone by managing interviews with the main principals of the project
• Rates the risks of the projects. Ensures that all the objective (QCDP) risks or gaps have a corrective plan
• Pays specific attention to the Quality results (Product and Industrial)
• Draws up the milestone assessment according to the Project development
• Supports the Project Teams and Mass-production Teams to deploy the quality methods and all the methods needed to master the running and the achievement of the Product Quality and Quality Processes results
• Contributes to the improvement of the standards by bringing the lessons learned during the Project or Mass-production development
• Draws up the lessons learned and shares them
• Brings their experience to update or improve the processes or methods

Their scope is:

• The Vehicle Projects - The Projects developed with partners (JV or Partnership), as such, the PMA:
• Links with the PMK with the Project Teams (the RQP) in order to have regularly feedback and to follow the convergence to the deliverables expected for each milestone
• Establishes with the Project Team the roadmap of the actions to be done until the milestone, based on a rating of the topics to fulfill
• Draws up the milestone assessment and its synthesis
• Manages the proofreading meeting of the milestone assessment with the Project and the main principals of the other directions involved
• Ensures the final distribution of the milestone assessment is done to the right people in the company
• Ensures the right implementation of the project quality referential
• Attends to the methods or standards improvements meetings by bringing their own experience
• Arranges the meetings needed with the principals involved and the Project in order to help to define the action plans (If necessary)
• Identifies the good practices and analyzes the difficulties of the projects they have in their overall perimeter in order to save this information and to give his lessons learned to the other projects

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related technical field
• 8+ years of quality, manufacturing, and or design/release related experience
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to deal with a variety of people at all levels of the organization
• Ability to collect and synthesize data into meaningful information and communicate clearly to all levels of the organization
• Self-directed, team oriented with demonstrated planning/problem-solving skills
• Experience and working knowledge of computer systems and software required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build solid partnerships, both internally and externally
• Expertise in planning, prioritizing, and goal setting including the ability to manage multiple projects, determining project urgency, creating detailed action plans, and organizing schedules, people, and tasks
• Assertive and ambitious nature
• Motivated to learn new principles and ideas, and have excitement in applying these new principles
• Motivated to make a positive impact in the work environment and on the quality of the products produced

At Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from all people without regard to sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diverse teams reflect our identity as a global company, enabling us to better address the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.