Regional Quality Manager: Automotive CI Leader

RESRG Automotive; Troy (MI); Vor Ort; USD 110.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

medical

dental

vision

flexible spending and health savings

life insurance

ADD

disability

retirement

paid vacation/time off

educational assistance

paid parental leave and adoption aid

Zusammenfassung

RESRG Automotive is seeking a Regional Quality Manager to drive manufacturing quality across multiple plants, establishing common standards and improving COPQ. You will collaborate with Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Manufacturing teams to identify systemic issues and implement root-cacuse solutions at scale.

The role is hands-on, plant-facing and requires frequent on-site presence to replicate best practices and build regional capability. Travel is a core part of the job.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, or related field.
• 7+ years of progressive quality experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong automotive manufacturing experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading structured problem-solving and continuous improvement activities.
• Strong working knowledge of IATF 16949 and automotive core tools, including APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, and MSA.
• Demonstrated ability to reduce scrap, defects, waste, and cost of poor quality.
• Ability to travel regularly among regional manufacturing facilities.

Aufgaben

• Establish and deploy common quality standards and expectations across manufacturing locations.
• Identify best practices within individual plants and standardize them across the region.
• Improve consistency in quality processes, documentation, reporting, and manufacturing controls.
• Support compliance with IATF 16949, customer-specific requirements, and internal quality standards.
• Partner with plant leadership to identify quality risks and close systemic gaps.
• Build plant capability in structured problem-solving methodologies, including 8D, A3, 5 Why, Fishbone, and root cause analysis.
• Coach Quality Managers, Engineers, Operations leaders, and frontline teams on effective problem solving.
• Facilitate complex or recurring problem-solving activities when additional regional support is needed.
• Ensure corrective actions address true root causes and are sustained over time.
• Create mechanisms to share lessons learned and prevent repeat issues across facilities.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to reduce scrap, rework, defects, waste, and COPQ.
• Use quality and operational data to identify the largest opportunities for improvement.
• Support plant locations in developing measurable improvement plans and tracking results.
• Identify recurring issues across locations and drive regional countermeasures.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to eliminate quality-related process waste.
• Spend significant time at plant locations assessing processes and supporting improvement activity.
• Provide hands-on support for significant quality or manufacturing issues.
• Assist plants with customer complaints, containment, corrective actions, and systemic quality issues.
• Support APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, and Layered Process Audits where needed.
• Help underperforming sites establish disciplined quality improvement plans.

Kenntnisse

Problem-solving

Leadership

Data-driven decision-making

Cross-functional collaboration

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Quality/Manufacturing

Tools

IATF 16949

APQP

PPAP

PFMEA

Control Plans

SPC

MSA

Jobbeschreibung

RESRG Automotive is seeking a Regional Quality Manager to drive manufacturing quality across multiple plants, establishing common standards and improving COPQ. You will collaborate with Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Manufacturing teams to identify systemic issues and implement root-cacuse solutions at scale.

The role is hands-on, plant-facing and requires frequent on-site presence to replicate best practices and build regional capability. Travel is a core part of the job.