Quality Manager

Position:

Quality Manager

Location:

Holland, MIJob :

227

# of Openings:

1

Position:
Plant Quality Manager

Reports to:

Plant Manager

Lead Quality. Drive Change. Raise the Standard.

At Motus, quality is how we earn our customers’ trust, protect our reputation, and build products we’re proud of. It is not a department that measures the plant. It is how the plant runs.

We’re looking for a Plant Quality Manager with energy, edge, and know-how. This person walks the floor, knows the systems, and isn’t afraid to take a hard position when the part isn’t right. You’ll lead and mentor the quality team, own our quality systems, and be the plant’s voice with our automotive OEM customers.

This is a highly visible leadership role. You’ll challenge when it matters, with the customer, with operations, and with engineering, and then bring everyone together to solve the problem for good.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
   
   High energy. You bring urgency every day, and even more when there’s a customer issue on the line. Your team feeds from it.

Edge. You make the tough call and stand behind it. You can tell a customer, a production supervisor, or an engineer “no” or “not yet,” back it up with data, and keep the relationship strong.

Resourceful. You don’t wait for perfect conditions. You find practical solutions with the people, tools, and data you have.

Knowledgeable. You know IATF 16949, quality systems, and the automotive core tools inside and out, and you use them to run the business, not just to pass audits.

A leader and a coach. You build people up. You set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and grow your team into the next generation of quality leaders.

A problem solver. When a defect shows up, you want to know why. You drive root cause to the real answer and make sure it doesn’t come back.

Business-minded. You understand that quality is a business metric, not just a quality metric. You use data to balance customer expectations, operational performance, cost, and risk, and you understand when quality needs to hold the line and when the business needs to find another path.
   
   WHERE YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
   
   Customer
   
   Be the plant’s primary quality contact for our OEM customers (GM, Toyota, Ford, and others). Build credibility and trust with customer quality engineers and plant teams.

Lead customer concerns from containment through closure: 8

Ds, root cause, corrective action, and verification that the fix works.

Represent the plant with confidence. Defend our position with data when the facts support it and own it fast when they don’t.Protect the plant from customer escalation (e.g., GM CS1/CS2, Toyota SIA) by identifying risk early, driving corrective action, and maintaining strong customer performance. If we’re in escalated status, lead the way out.

Own customer scorecards, customer-specific requirements (CSRs), and on-time, accurate responses. Handle customer and certification-body notifications for quality or delivery issues.
   
   Quality Systems
   
   Own and continuously improve the plant’s IATF 16949 quality management system. Lead internal audits and host customers and third-party audits.

Drive the use of core tools (APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA) across launches and running production.

Make sure our Layered Process Audit (LPA) and escalation processes are robust, followed, and actually catch problems.

Serve as the plant’s CCAP Quality Manager of record. Keep products exported to China compliant with GB 8410, and manage the CoP control plan, CCAP mark control, and change notifications to the certification body.
   
   Plant Performance & Team
   
   Lead, mentor, and develop the quality team: engineers, techs, and inspectors. Set clear expectations, coach performance, and build a…