Stellantis

Product Audit Manager

Stellantis • $95K — $115K *
Sterling Heights, MI 48310In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; engineering or technical degree preferred.
  • 7+ years of quality experience in manufacturing environments.
  • 2+ years in supervisory or leadership roles.
  • Proficient in Microsoft applications.
  • Strong public speaking and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

  • Direct and manage daily product audit activities and initiatives.
  • Develop and implement a strategic business plan for product audits.
  • Oversee staffing, training, and performance management of team members.
  • Conduct daily vehicle selections ensuring consistency with production builds.
  • Facilitate cultural changes across functional organizations to enhance quality.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams to drive quality improvements.
  • Career growth potential within the Quality Organization.
  • Opportunity to influence best-in-class vehicle quality.
  • Access to continuous improvement training and mentoring.
Full Job Description
The Product Audit Manager is responsible for all aspects of the Quality Assurance Center at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant. The Product Audit Manager reports directly to the Quality Center Manager. They lead a diverse team of salary and hourly Quality professionals integrating within the assembly plant and cross-functional team. They manage and lead the full scope of corporate customer product activities, resources, and continuous improvement efforts to ensure vehicle quality and customer action. The Product Audit Manager will be a leader within the Quality Organization and will be expected to plan and direct the execution of a strategic audit plan that will allow Stellantis to achieve best-in-class quality, a favorable industry reputation, and the highest levels of customer satisfaction.

Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • Direct/manage product audit daily activities, tasks and initiatives
  • Develop and implement a successful business plan for the Product Audits that supports corporate objectives, processes, and standards for product audit
  • Manage/Direct salaried and union staff. Including: posting, qualifying/testing candidates, training, certification, scheduling, expense approval, and calibration operations
  • Monitor individual employee results to identify individual training needs along with yearly calibration/certification of auditors (Includes: Hearing, Vision, and auditing performance)
  • Provide high level review of audit conditions requiring clarification
  • Conduct daily electronic manual vehicle selection to assure mix is consistent with daily production build
  • Ensure documentation of conditions identified, with immediate issue owner identification and awareness
  • Manages all major aspects of vehicle auditing (i.e., SCA, VLO, CTVV) and oversees data analysis for comparison to daily vehicle audits. Communicating results to Plant staff, Quality, and Plant Management
  • Work across functional organizations to drive cultural change throughout the organization
  • Establish quality and reliability standards for customer product audits and quality processes.
  • Drive the plant to resolution of systemic/chronic or major quality issues (Top Warranty, Recalls, RRT, CSN)
  • Align SCA with warranty issues escaping assy plant (vehicle and systemic)
  • Drive warranty issues into plant Audit Meeting reviews daily
  • Support plant warranty process (short loop, red room, & warranty table)
  • Maintain SCA data measurement collection and reporting systems
  • Ensure all equipment within the facility is calibrated and in working order
  • Deliver cars in conformity (SCA, CTVV and VLO must be within assigned targets)
  • Responsibility for direct supervision of the unionized hourly personnel at the assembly plant


Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 7+ years of experience in quality within a manufacturing environment
  • 2+ years in a supervisory or leadership role
  • Well versed in Microsoft applications
  • Effective presentation/public speaking skills
  • Able to demonstrate both coaching and teaching
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Self-motivated and directed. Ability to thrive in a high intensity environment while working on multiple projects
  • Willingness to work off shift hours and weekends as needed

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Engineering/Technical degree or Bachelor's degree and equivalent experience
  • Experience supervising hourly
  • Previous Manufacturing and/or Quality experience
  • World Class Manufacturing Experience, preferably in QCS, WO, EEM, E

About Stellantis

Stellantis is a multinational automotive manufacturer formed in 2021 by the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Groupe PSA. The company designs, produces, and sells a wide range of vehicles under various brands, including Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroen, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, and Vauxhall. Stellantis operates in over 130 countries and has 14 brands in its portfolio. The company is committed to sustainable mobility and has set ambitious targets for reducing its carbon footprint and increasing the share of electric vehicles in its sales.
Learn more about Stellantis
Size
400,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
* Ladders Estimates

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