Description
Position Summary:
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 position is primarily accountable for reducing Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ), managing daily production quality issues, protecting the customer, and establishing disciplined quality-control routines that support launch and stable mass production.
This role directly leads the IPM Quality Control Engineer and Quality Control Technical Associate (QCTA) positions. The Sr. Supervisor facilitates scrap-reduction projects, manages L2L quality dispatches involving out-of-specification conditions, machine checks, and quality checks, and leads the internal weekly IPM CoPQ reviews. The position partners with Production, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and other support functions to ensure timely containment, root cause, corrective action, and sustained improvement.
Minimum Qualifications (Education, Experience, and Skills):
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in manufacturing, quality control, quality engineering, production supervision, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 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.
Preferred Qualifications (Education, Experience, and Skills):
- 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.
Description of Duties and Responsibilities / % of Time Performing Duties
- Lead Quality Control team activities
- Manage daily quality issues and containment
- Drive corrective actions and escalation
- Lead CoPQ and scrap reduction initiatives
- Manage L2L quality dispatches
- Lead weekly CoPQ review meetings
- Drive root cause analysis and problem solving
- Verify corrective action effectiveness
- Improve PFMEA and PQCT controls
- Strengthen defect prevention and detection
- Support cross-functional process improvements
- Support new model launch readiness and validation
- Ensure ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 compliance
- Develop Quality Control team capability
Skills and Abilities:
- Ability and willingness to promote and carry out the Astemo Mission, “The Blueprint,” and expected standards of conduct.
- Strong leadership presence with the 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 the 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.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Provides direct leadership for the IPM Quality Control Engineer and Quality Control Technical Associate (QCTA) positions.
- Plans work assignments and coverage; establishes expectations; develops skills; monitors performance; provides coaching and feedback; and supports selection, onboarding, qualification, and corrective action in accordance with company policy.
- Coordinates temporary cross-functional containment, scrap-reduction, and problem-solving teams based on quality risk and production needs.
Software:
- Intermediate skills required in Windows, Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to use L2L and production, quality, traceability, document-control, and reporting systems to manage dispatches, analyze trends, and track actions.
Essential to Job Functions – Physical and/or Mental Restrictions:
- 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
- Standing, Walking, and Bending for the duration of the workday
- Ability to work for long periods of time while sitting
Work Environment – Travel, Noise, Smells, Quiet, Indoors or Outdoors, etc.
- Factory, controlled manufacturing, and engineering/laboratory environments with production noise.
- Use of 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.
Equipment Used
- Personal Computer
- Measurement Equipment (Calipers, gages, etc)
- Company Phone (Off shifts may contact when issues occur)