Director Advanced Quality

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Director Advanced Quality

United States - MI - Novi

Reporting to the Executive Director of Quality & Business Systems, the Director serves as a key leader in ensuring effective implementation of quality processes, standardized operating procedures, and continuous improvement initiatives that support customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and business growth. This role drives quality consistency across manufacturing sites and productprograms while developing organizational capability in quality systems and compliance.

Key Responsibilities Quality Management System Leadership

• Lead the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the North America Quality Management System.
• Ensure compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 9001, customer-specific requirements, and corporate quality standards.
• Develop, review, and deploy quality system procedures, standards, and best practices.
• Drive standardization of quality processes across manufacturing facilities.

Business Operating System Deployment

• Support deployment and sustainment of the YFAI Business Operating System across all facilities.
• Facilitate process maturity assessments and identify opportunities for operating model improvements.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities to ensure consistent execution of business system requirements.
• Monitor key performance indicators and establish action plans to close performance gaps.

Audit & Compliance Management

• Direct the regional internal audit program and ensure audit plans are risk-based, complete, and effective.
• Coordinate external certification and customer audits in partnership with plant and functional leaders.
• Ensure timely closure of audit findings and verify effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Monitor compliance trends and implement preventive measures to reduce repeat findings.

Quality Performance Management

• Analyze quality performance metrics across plants and programs to identify systemic issues and improvement opportunities.
• Lead regional reviews of quality key performance indicators including customer complaints, warranty, internal scrap, first-pass yield, and corrective action effectiveness.
• Develop enterprise-wide improvement initiatives and coordinate execution across sites.
• Provide clear executive reporting, decision support, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Lead structured problem-solving and rootcause analysis initiatives for recurring quality issues.
• Champion Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence methodologies as practical tools for sustainable performance improvement.
• Facilitate best-practice sharing across manufacturing locations.
• Support digitalization and automation of quality management processes.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead and develop quality systems managers, auditors, and other assigned quality professionals.
• Establish development roadmaps and succession plans for key quality roles.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, compliance, and customer focus.
• Support cross-regional collaboration and resource sharing across the quality organization.

Qualifications Education

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing,Quality, Business, or a related technical field required.
• Master's degree preferred.

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in automotive manufacturing, quality, operations, engineering, or program management.
• 5+ years in a leadership role managing quality systems, quality operations, audit, or operational excellence functions.

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in automotive manufacturing, quality, operations, engineering, or program management.
• 5+ years in a leadership role managing quality systems, quality operations, audit, or operational excellence functions.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing IATF 16949 and ISO-based quality systems.
• Experience leading internal and external audits, including customer and certification audits.
• Experience working in a multi-site, matrixed, and international business environment.
• Strong…