Quality Manager - Cell Manufacturing Plant

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• Posted on September 11, 2026

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42060 Ecorse Rd
Belleville, MI 48111, USA

• On-site
• Manager
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: QUALI
  001435

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manufacturing Quality Leadership

• Lead all day-to-day quality activities supporting battery cell manufacturing operations.
• Develop and execute the plant quality strategy in alignment with ONE's manufacturing and business objectives.
• Establish clear quality standards, controls, inspection requirements, and escalation processes throughout the manufacturing process.
• Maintain a strong floor presence and partner directly with production leadership to identify and resolve quality issues.
• Ensure quality requirements are integrated into production processes, work instructions, control plans, and manufacturing standards.
• Provide quality leadership during production ramp-up, equipment commissioning, process changes, and new product introductions.
• Establish appropriate quality coverage and support for plant operating schedules.

Process & Product Quality

• Monitor and improve critical-to-quality characteristics throughout the cell manufacturing process.
• Establish and maintain appropriate process controls, inspection plans, sampling plans, control plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead investigations involving process deviations, defects, yield losses, scrap, rework, and product nonconformance.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Process Engineering to improve process capability and reduce manufacturing variation.
• Utilize statistical methods to identify trends and prevent quality escapes.
• Drive improvements in first-pass yield, scrap, defect rates, process capability, and overall manufacturing quality performance.
• Ensure product traceability and appropriate disposition of suspect or nonconforming materials.
• Own or oversee the plant nonconforming material process.
• Lead containment activities when significant quality issues are identified.
• Ensure timely and effective disposition of nonconforming materials.
• Lead structured root cause investigations using methodologies such as:
  • 8D
  • 5 Why
  • Fishbone/Ishikawa
  • Fault Tree Analysis
  • DMAIC
• Develop and verify corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure corrective actions address systemic causes rather than symptoms.
• Track corrective actions through closure and verify effectiveness.

Quality Systems

• Support implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of ONE's Quality Management System.
• Ensure plant quality processes comply with applicable internal standards, customer requirements, and regulatory requirements.
• Support compliance with ISO 9001 and, where applicable, automotive quality requirements including IATF 16949
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• Develop, maintain, and improve quality procedures, work instructions, forms, records, and control plans.
• Support internal, customer, certification, and regulatory audits.
• Lead corrective actions resulting from audit findings.
• Ensure appropriate document control and quality record retention.

Advanced Quality & Manufacturing Readiness

• Participate in APQP activities supporting new products and manufacturing processes.
• Lead or support development and maintenance of:
  • PFMEAs
  • Control Plans
  • Process Flow Diagrams
  • Measurement System Analysis (MSA)
  • Statistical Process Control (SPC)
  • Process Capability Studies
  • PPAP documentation, when applicable
• Participate in manufacturing readiness reviews and process validation activities.
• Ensure quality risks are identified and mitigated before production launch or significant process changes.
• Partner with Supplier Quality and Supply Chain to establish incoming material quality requirements.
• Monitor incoming material performance and supplier-related quality trends.
• Lead plant containment activities associated with supplier defects.
• Support supplier corrective action requests and verification of corrective actions.
• Ensure suspect supplier material is appropriately identified, segregated, controlled, and dispositioned.
• Provide manufacturing data and technical analysis to support supplier quality improvement efforts.

Measurement, Inspection & Laboratory Controls

• Ensure appropriate inspection and test methods are established for critical product and process characteristics.
• Support management of measurement equipment,…