• Lead and support regional quality initiatives across multiple manufacturing facilities. • Ensure compliance with quality standards including ISO 9001, customer-specific requirements, and internal quality procedures. • Standardize quality processes, procedures, KPIs, and reporting across all facilities. • Conduct internal audits and support external customer and certification audits. • Drive corrective and preventive action processes (CAPA) to ensure sustainable improvements. Serve as a regional escalation point for customer quality concerns and major non-conformances. • Lead root cause analysis for quality and process issues following an 8D or A3 approach along with proper escalation reporting ensuring a disciplined PDCA approach. Coordinate containment, corrective actions, and customer communication for quality issues. • Apply basic APQP principles and be a key driver in developing internal launch processes within a 20-day lead time. • Support new product launches, process validations, PPAP activities, and engineering changes. • Develop family or process level FMEA’s, Control Plans, and deploy SPC once process stability is reached. Utilize capability indices and MSA analysis if / where applicable. • Update KPI’s and systemic action plans. • Support customer visits, audits, and quality reviews. • Analyze quality performance metrics and identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities. • Partner with plant leadership to reduce scrap, rework, and customer complaints. • Promote Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies throughout the organization. Key team member conducting value stream mapping, identifying waste, and implementing continual improvements. • Partner with Supply Chain and Purchasing as needed to drive quality into our supply base. • Mentor and support site Quality Technicians across all shifts and multiple sites to develop skill sets and deploy improvement strategy and action(s). • Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Production, Maintenance, and Operations teams. • Provide leadership updates and quality performance summaries for executive management. • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or related field required. • Minimum of 5–7 years of quality engineering experience within automotive manufacturing environments. • Experience supporting multiple manufacturing facilities is strongly preferred. • Strong knowledge of quality standards and core quality tools. • Experience with customer-facing quality management and OEM/customer audits. • Experience in high-volume manufacturing environments preferred. • ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) certification preferred. • Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred. • Experience in packaging, plastics, printing, thermoforming, or related manufacturing industries is a plus. • Experience with multi-site operations and regional quality oversight preferred. • APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, MSA, Control Plans, and 8D Problem Solving. • Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma methodologies, Shainin experience is a plus. • Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills. • Advanced Microsoft Excel and reporting skills preferred. • Strong communication and interpersonal skills. • Ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams. • Excellent organizational and project management skills. • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. • Strong customer service mindset and sense of urgency. • Experience with ERP/MRP systems and quality management systems. • Ability to travel frequently between manufacturing facilities (up to 50%). • Ability to walk manufacturing floors and work in production environments. Annual Compensation range for this position is $105K-$130K. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other related factors. We are committed to fair and equitable competition practices.