Description
Job Purpose
Execute BRBU Regional Quality strategy to support successful program launches, support sites/ROD on critical quality issues.
Area of Accountabilities & Key Activities
Quality Assurance on new projects development
- Perform project quality audits during APQP phases, from customer kick-off through project gates (PG1–PG4), including PPAP, Run at Rate, and SOP.
- Support the team to follow customer quality requirements and lessons learned are applied
- Proactively escalate deviations impacting compliance, product quality, or SOP timing.
- Support shipment release decisions based on quality risk assessment and containment status.
- Support BU quality tasks on Change Management (CHM) activities are properly executed according to customer requirements, with risks identified, assessed, and mitigated.
Quality Assurance in mass production phase
- Maintain regional quality KPI dashboards with updated performance metrics, risk status, and action plan progress.
- Support proper escalation and management of severe quality issues.
- Support horizontal deployment of lessons learned
- Perform a gap assessment on the Gemba in regards with Astemo standards
Communication/ Regional governance
- Facilitate communication between ROD, BU and central functions
Customer escalation management
- Support customer escalations and maintain aligned between ROD and BU
Profile
Key Professional Competencies
Hard technical skills directly related to the job function:
- Knowhow in quality processes, standards and tools
- Product Liability knowledge
- Change management skills
- Crisis management skills
- Problem solving tools
- Fluent English
Key Personal Competencies
Soft behavior or personal skills related to the individual capacity to execute a job task or responsibility:
- Analytical & Problem Solving
- Managerial Courage
- Implementation & Results Orientation
- Relationship Building & Networking
- Stress & Pressure / Being Resilient
Qualification: Bachelor lor/Master degree in Engineering or equivalent
Experience: At least 5 years of experience in automotive industry
- Qualification in: APQP, PPAP, ISO/TS… familiar with Honda, Ford quality system.
