QMS & Innovation Quality Manager

The Corporate Innovation and QMS manager is responsible for developing, deploying, auditing, and sustaining corporate-level Manufacturing Quality standards across North American operations. This role supports inspection standards, certification processes, QMS/SIS best practices, reactivity processes, Quality Certification line, Production Quality Gates, Stellantis Customer Audit, and other global/regional quality standards. The specialist serves as a subject-matter expert for process quality, providing hands-on support to assembly plants, conducting process assessments, ensuring regulatory and internal compliance, and driving standardization and continuous improvement.  

Deliverables: 

Job responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Develop, implement, and maintain corporate process and inspection standards 
• Ensure consistent application of QMS, SIS fundamentals, PQG, SCA, and certification processes across NA plants 
• Conduct process assessments to validate readiness, robustness, and compliance before process or product changes 
• Support internal QMS/ISO audits and SIS fundamentals audits 
• Ensure standards meet regulation, ISO requirements, and company expectations 
• Develop and sustain Professional Inspection standards and best practices. 
• Support Certification Line processes and government/regulatory practices related to manufacturing quality 
• Execute or support process quality tasks within BIW, Paint, and General Assembly, including online inspection, torque auditing, control plans, PFMEAs, and traceability 
• Analyze internal/external quality indicators to identify trends and validate quality control effectiveness 
• Review and interpret MCV (Palantir) data to verify process performance 
• Lead robust root-cause analysis activities to resolve issues and prevent recurrence 
• Recommend and implement mistake-proofing and cost-effective quality improvements 
• Support launch readiness and implementation of new methodologies in assembly manufacturing facilities 
• Provide training and coaching on inspection standards, QMS/SIS best practices, and process quality expectations for hourly and salaried employees 
• Share best practices globally to ensure alignment with North American process integrity