Quality Manager

What you will do

• Lead the Quality organization to support manufacturing stabilization, supplier transitions, and customer protection activities.
• Establish and maintain strong quality governance across incoming material, in-process controls, final inspection, product release, and customer shipment readiness.
• Ensure supplier changes, material changes, process changes, and product qualifications are managed through proper change control, risk assessment, validation, APQP and PPAP processes.
• Lead supplier qualification and supplier development activities, including audits, performance monitoring, corrective actions, and PPAP readiness.
• Ensure incoming materials from critical suppliers are properly controlled, inspected, traceable, and approved before use in customer products.
• Drive containment, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and verification of effectiveness for internal and external nonconformities.
• Lead customer complaint response, 8D execution, customer communication support, and closure of quality issues.
• Ensure customer‑specific requirements are reviewed, understood, flowed down, and implemented across the applicable functions.
• Ensure product and process traceability systems are robust enough to support customer inquiries, containment, suspect material identification, and recall risk mitigation.
• Maintain PFMEA, Control Plan, inspection standards and quality gates as living documents aligned with actual process risks and lessons learned.
• Ensure manufacturing process controls are effective, measurable, and consistently followed by Operations and Quality teams.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to reduce scrap, rework, COPQ, recurring defects and process variation.
• Develop a strong Quality Engineering team with clear ownership for APQP/PPAP, process quality, supplier quality, incoming inspection, lab activities, calibration, testing, MSA, SPC and quality systems.
• Provide technical leadership during customer audits, certification audits, supplier audits and internal assessments.
• Escalate quality risks proactively when customer satisfaction, product conformity, supply continuity and regulatory compliance may be impacted.
• Establish dashboards and routines to monitor customer complaints, supplier performance, internal defects, FTQ/FTY, audit findings, PPAP status, validation status, overdue corrective actions, scrap, and COPQ.
• Support organizational independence from legacy supplier/process dependencies by building internal capability, documented standards, and sustainable quality controls.
• Ensure the Quality Management System (QMS) aligns with customer, regulatory, and certification requirements.
• Promote a culture of quality by engaging and influencing key stakeholders across Aspen sites.
• Manage and implement quality programs that ensure consistent production aligned with established standards.
• Lead the implementation of the Problem‑Solving and Corrective Action process across the organization.
• Lead or support root cause investigations and implement corrective actions for nonconformities.
• Maintain documentation and ensure compliance with document control policies. Ensuring all the process owners follow and execute the document control policy.
• Lead and support activities related to PPAP, FMEA, SPC, Gage R&R, Supplier Qualification, Calibration, and Corrective & Preventive Actions in automotive assembly lines.
• Track and measure performing employee performance reviews.
• Develop and execute strategic plans to improve key performance indicators (KPIs) and enhance customer satisfaction year over year.
• Prepare and present technical, program, and operational quality reports as needed.
• Manage the Quality department budget and CAPEX projects.
• Review and audit SOPs, validations, and other documents.
• Train employees in QMS and ISO / IATF requirements.
• Supervise and manage all aspects of the Quality Lab and equipment.
• Support and lead other special projects as assigned.
• Adopt and follow Aspen’s core values.

• Minimum 8–10 years of progressive Quality experience in automotive manufacturing, preferably Tier 1 or Tier 2.
• Minimum 3–5 years of people leadership experience managing Quality Engineers,…