The Product Process Specialist will be responsible for managing designated manufacturing processes in a fast paced, high volume, unionized, manufacturing environment. The Product Process Specialist (PPS) will be responsible for ensuring conformance of processes and coordinating engineering, tooling and quality changes in their assigned area/department. The selected candidate will coordinate all safety, quality, delivery, cost and morale initiatives. Provide coaching and mentoring to team members (both bargaining unit and supervisory) regarding SIS techniques for problem solving and corrective action implementation. The PPS will interface with AME, Program Management, Product Engineering and Supplier Quality to assure compliance to build requirements as well as to drive product changes necessary to improve quality.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
- Responsible for the direct supervision of bargaining unit employees
- Manage Process Sheets through Advanced Manufacturing Planning System (AMPS), propose modifications and guarantee process standardization across all shifts
- Analyze quality data, prioritize issues based on quality data and provide recommendations for improvement to the team
- Manage and lead part/process changes that affect the floor
- Audit and manage process parameters and identify optimal strategy based on CP-CPK results
- Root cause vehicle dimensional parameter issues to improve quality metrics
- Ensure non-conforming parts are identified and processed
- Collaborate with Team Leaders, Engineers and other roles in continuous improvement activities
- Actively participate and lead kaizen project activities centered on Safety, Cost, Quality and throughput improvements and waste reduction opportunities identified through cost deployment
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical / engineering discipline; or Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience with manufacturing processes, tooling, quality control methods and statistical process control (SPC)
- Ability to work any shift and overtime as required
- Excellent organization, written and oral communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with various levels of employees within all areas of the Plant from hourly represented employees to Senior Leadership as required
- Ability to build effective business relationships with plant leadership and customers
- Goal oriented self-starter with ability to lead teams
- Ability to coach/mentor/develop team members
- Must have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Suite
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous manufacturing supervisory experience
- Previous experience working in a union environment
- Experience in continuous improvement systems and lean manufacturing
- Ability to read, interpret, and understand engineering documents, technical standards and design specifications
- Familiar with World Class Manufacturing pillar methodology and implementation
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering discipline or Bachelor's with minimum 3 years relevant manufacturing experience
- Experience with manufacturing processes, tooling, and quality control methods
- Knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Familiarity with CP-CPK and process capability analysis
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Suite
- Ability to work any shift and overtime as required
- Excellent written and oral communication and organizational skills
- Ability to coach, mentor, and develop team members and lead teams
- Previous manufacturing supervisory experience
- Previous experience working in a unionized environment
- Experience with continuous improvement systems, lean manufacturing and kaizen
- Ability to read, interpret, and understand engineering documents, technical standards and design specifications
- Familiarity with World Class Manufacturing pillar methodology
Stellantis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stellantis and has not been reviewed or approved by Stellantis.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Contract-driven increases lifted hourly wages roughly 25% over 4.5 years and restored cost-of-living adjustments, pushing top rates near $42 per hour by the end of the agreement. Union hourly positions appear to have benefited most since the 2023 deal.
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Affordable Benefits — UAW-represented hourly workers pay no premiums and about 3% of total healthcare costs while receiving comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellness coverage. This creates materially lower out-of-pocket costs for represented hourly roles.
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Retirement Support — Post-2007 hourly hires receive a 10% employer 401(k) contribution and legacy workers saw defined-benefit improvements with retiree bonuses. Salaried roles also cite a 401(k) with employer match and contribution up to a maximum of 8%.
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Our storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today’s customers in their innovative products and services: they include Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and mobility brands Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which we operate.
