Project Quality Manager – Propulsion Systems

The Project Quality Manager – PRS is a program-oriented leadership role responsible for defining, integrating, and executing the quality strategy across the full propulsion system program lifecycle. This position operates at the intersection of Program Management and Quality
, ensuring alignment between quality deliverables, program timing, cost, and risk objectives.

The PQM drives cross-functional convergence, ensures disciplined execution of program milestones, and proactively manages risks and dependencies to ensure successful program launches and sustained customer satisfaction.

• Act as the Quality lead within the Program Management structure
  , ensuring alignment of quality deliverables with overall program timing, cost, and scope objectives
• Drive program governance for quality
  , including milestone readiness, risk reviews, and escalation management
• Lead cross-functional program reviews, ensuring quality risks, issues, and actions are clearly defined, tracked, and resolved
• Develop and maintain integrated program quality plans aligned with master schedules and key deliverables
• Ensure structured risk identification, mitigation planning, and execution tracking throughout the lifecycle
• Support decision-making by providing data-driven quality insights and trade-off analysis to program leadership

• Define and implement the quality plan, ensuring rigorous execution across the full program lifecycle
• Lead quality convergence from early concept through six months post-SOP
• Oversee development and management of quality targets, forecasts, risks, and customer satisfaction metrics
• Ensure effective integration of APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) and PPAP (Production Part Approval Process)
  deliverables at the system level

• Serve as a key interface between engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and program teams
  , ensuring alignment and accountability
• Drive collaboration across stakeholders including vehicle programs, and industrial teams
• Lead structured problem-solving efforts and ensure closure through standardized methodologies

• Proactively manage program risks and quality issues
  , including escalation, containment, root cause analysis, and corrective actions
• Ensure lessons learned are captured and systematically applied to current and future programs
• Manage deviations and ensure compliance with mandatory requirements (IAA)

• Ensure readiness and completeness of program milestone deliverables and acceptance reviews
• Prepare and deliver program-level quality reporting
  , including KPIs, risk status, and action plans
• Document design assessments and evaluate customer impact of deviations

• Ensure achievement of quality targets for launches and secondary programs
• Lead early warning systems (FEW) and drive rapid response where required
• Support industrialization quality assessments in coordination with plant and industrial quality teams

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 8 years of experience demonstrating Project and Program Management relative to Quality roles within the automotive industry
• Strong knowledge of program management disciplines (timing, risk management, milestone governance)
• Proficiency in quality tools, methodologies, and customer claim management

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional programs or major work streams with accountability for delivery
• Strong experience in risk management, issue resolution, and escalation handling within complex programs
• Proven ability to operate within structured program governance frameworks
• Capable of balancing competing priorities across quality, cost, and timing constraints

• Ability to translate program objectives into actionable quality strategies and execution plans
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills with a program-level perspective

• Excellent management and communication skills across all organizational levels
• Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across diverse teams