Country Quality Manager

Descripción

Your Role:

The Country Quality Manager leads manufacturing quality for the country operation, overseeing plant quality systems, quality operations, quality engineering, and launch readiness to ensure safe, compliant, high-quality production. The role drives BIQ, leads cross-functional quality issue resolution, and partners with local, regional, and global teams to improve performance and sustain manufacturing excellence.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the country manufacturing quality strategy and execution in alignment with GM quality standards, local business requirements, and corporate objectives.

• Provide overall leadership for plant quality systems, quality operations, quality engineering, and launch quality readiness.

• Ensure safe, compliant, and high-quality production through robust quality planning, execution, and governance.

• Drive Built-In Quality (BIQ) implementation, sustainment, and continuous improvement across the manufacturing operation.

• Lead cross-functional resolution of quality issues through effective problem solving, containment, corrective actions, and preventive actions.

• Oversee manufacturing quality performance, monitor key quality metrics, and drive recovery actions to achieve plant and regional targets.

• Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Production, Maintenance, Program Quality, and other stakeholders to strengthen quality performance and operational readiness.

• Ensure standardized manufacturing quality requirements are deployed and consistently followed across the country operation.

• Support new program and launch readiness activities to ensure quality systems, controls, and processes are in place before production ramp-up.

• Escalate major quality risks with urgency, ensure timely decision-making, and drive closure of critical issues.

• Collaborate with local, regional, and global quality teams to share best practices, align priorities, and sustain manufacturing excellence.

• Foster a culture of accountability, customer focus, and continuous improvement across quality organization.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualification)

Educational and Experience Background:

• Bachelor’s degree with a related technical field.

• 10+ Years of experience in the field.

• Solid experience in automotive manufacturing quality, quality operations, quality engineering, or plant quality leadership, with practical exposure to in-process quality oversight and manufacturing quality execution.

Skills & Abilities :

• Proven ability to lead teams and provide planning, direction, and governance for plant quality activities in line with local, divisional, and corporate objectives and policies.

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing quality systems, including BIQ/GMS, standardized operational quality requirements, and manufacturing launch quality expectations.

• Demonstrated experience in planning, structured problem solving, containment, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.

• Experience supporting or leading new projects / launch readiness, including cross-functional alignment to ensure robust and standardized launch systems.

• Ability to manage and improve quality performance metrics, develop recovery actions, and drive performance to target using plant and regional scorecards.

• Strong communication, leadership presence, and decision-making skills, with the ability to escalate issues clearly and drive closure with urgency.

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