Quality Plant Engineering Lead

Quality Plant Engineering Leader (QPEL):

• Define containment actions to apply for customer protection (including supplier Issues)


• Do vehicle issue diagnosis and root cause analysis


• Ensure that his team carries out the pre-analysis activities on time


• Do risk assessments and lead corrective action plans


• Guarantee the product – process maturity of the components of his perimeter management of serial life (windows change management).


• Propose alternative product solution in case of issues (as shortage) to avoid to stop mass production in the plant


• Participate in Quality ENG tech clubs.


• Implementation of good idea and standards (Read Across)


• Ensure the right application in the plant of the technical requirements and the meta function “métiers” standards of his perimeter


• Ensure that the skills of his team is at the right level


• Ensure the management activities of his team (daily management control meeting)


• Ensure that his team is working in safety


• Lead quality KPI management to achieve quality objectives, driving improvement/corrective actions and escalation


• Resolution of systemic/chronic or major quality issues (Top Warranty, Recalls, …)


• Technical support Yard Holds / Product Related Issues (PRI’s) technical referent inside the PRI.


• Set-up / On-going Controls for Process / product Standards for Vehicle & System Functional Objectives (i.e. ADAS, BSR, FEA).

Principle Activities

1. Advancing Customer Quality

• Animate customer satisfaction/quality through supplier quality animation, Customer Feedback & Networks (Animation processing of Palantir Foundry, Supplier Ticket IT Tool (SQP/NCT/Amadeus) and Customer/Supplier obeyas


• Escalate as needed with Quality Plant ENGineering Manager and/or Manager FQM of his Quality Meta Function


• Ensure Feedback lesson learn to Team Design


• Ensure the management of sensitive processes of his perimeter (noises, geometry, sealing, etc.)

2. Ensure the landing of Serial Life Windows & evolutions/events Product including costsavings

• Evaluate & Restore Hand-Over Profession ENG milestone to anticipate drift


• Pilot points of change to implement actions necessary to secure flow


• Participate in PPAP animation and issue a verdict J4 (project/factory transfer) or J5 (serial life)


• Participate if needed in Panorama Evolution Product Process (on Master Chief Engineer request)

3. Support the plant in the safety of production on his perimeter

• Assist the team (expertise) as needed on summaries Diamond 1-3 (NC factory) and Diamond 4 (supplier NC)


• Pilot partners/Supplier for roll-back in case of proven NC


• Protect the customer by setting up a containment (Interim Solution) or a control/rework dam


• Formalize Remedies (redesign) Diamond 5-6-7


• Pilot Remedy hand-over to Life-Series Redesign Teams

4. Be the guarantor of the robustness of the plant monitoring plan

• Implement and relay the monitoring plan in the plant, which has the power to derogate from it


• Animate the performance of the different control/reworking workstations by identifying the traversal


• Make Layered Process Audit (LPA) on positions identified as sensitive in the flow


• Conducting plant maturity audits, sharing them and tracing reconvergence actions

5. Lead his team (attached to the plant) & contribute to the performance

• Build the team's workload plan, guarantee the smoothing of the workload by prioritizing and allocating tasks, manage the subjects escalated


• Ensure the efficiency of the team through structured processing (A3 MRP, 5P, etc.) of problems encountered and risks


• Coordinate & Pilote the convergence of KPi Plant Quality (DVx defect/vehicle, DRR direct run ratio, SCA Stellantis Customer Audit, PPM 3MIS)


• Skills crossmaping of his team