The Role
Assess vehicle program milestones to ensure deliverables meet quality, cost, schedule, and production objectives. Conduct interviews, rate risks, ensure corrective plans, support project and mass-production teams in deploying quality methods, document lessons learned, and improve standards and processes across vehicle projects and partnerships.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Stellantis Customer Experience organization is currently seeking a highly skilled, solutions-oriented Project Milestone Assessor to join the Quality team in Auburn Hills, MI. The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring launched products exceed customer expectations as measured in the six types of Quality. This role serves as a support role in the independent review of the vehicle development process to ensure they are completed to an acceptable standard to deliver a quality product to the customer at the launch of a new product. The ideal candidate must have a proven track record of developing and executing standardization and leadership. The selected individual will have experience in managing cross-functional teams and possess a broad knowledge of the entire automotive engineering, manufacturing, and quality landscape. The candidate must be a high-energy, hands-on individual with strength of convictions -- a self-confident leader who, in part due to his/her personal presence, style, and demeanor, effectively sells ideas and solutions to others. Moreover, this person must have unquestioned integrity.
In the field of the Customer Experience, the Project Milestone Assessor:
- Appreciates the follow up of the Projects through different KPI (Quality, Performances, Cost, Time schedule, Industrial, Supply Chain, Brand, etc.)
- Ensures that all Project expected deliverables are achieved at each milestone by managing interviews with the main principals of the project
- Rates the risks of the projects. Ensures that all the objective (QCDP) risks or gaps have a corrective plan
- Pays specific attention to the Quality results (Product and Industrial)
- Draws up the milestone assessment according to the Project development
- Supports the Project Teams and Mass-production Teams to deploy the quality methods and all the methods needed to master the running and the achievement of the Product Quality and Quality Processes results
- Contributes to the improvement of the standards by bringing the lessons learned during the Project or Mass-production development
- Draws up the lessons learned and shares them
- Brings their experience to update or improve the processes or methods
Their scope is:
- The Vehicle Projects - The Projects developed with partners (JV or Partnership), as such, the PMA:
- Links with the PMK with the Project Teams (the RQP) in order to have regularly feedback and to follow the convergence to the deliverables expected for each milestone
- Establishes with the Project Team the roadmap of the actions to be done until the milestone, based on a rating of the topics to fulfill
- Draws up the milestone assessment and its synthesis
- Manages the proofreading meeting of the milestone assessment with the Project and the main principals of the other directions involved
- Ensures the final distribution of the milestone assessment is done to the right people in the company
- Ensures the right implementation of the project quality referential
- Attends to the methods or standards improvements meetings by bringing their own experience
- Arranges the meetings needed with the principals involved and the Project in order to help to define the action plans (If necessary)
- Identifies the good practices and analyses the difficulties of the projects they have in their overall perimeter in order to save this information and to give his lessons learned to the other projects
EOE/Disability/Veteran
Preferred QualificationsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- 5+ years of quality, manufacturing, and or design/release related experience
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to deal with a variety of people at all levels of the organization
- Ability to collect and synthesize data into meaningful information and communicate clearly to all levels of the organization
- Self-directed, team oriented with demonstrated planning/problem-solving skills
- Experience and working knowledge of computer systems and software required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build solid partnerships, both internally and externally
- Expertise in planning, prioritizing, and goal setting including the ability to manage multiple projects, determining project urgency, creating detailed action plans, and organizing schedules, people, and tasks
- Assertive and ambitious nature
- Results oriented
- Motivated to learn new principles and ideas, and have excitement in applying these new principles
- Motivated to make a positive impact in the work environment and on the quality of the products produced
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- 5+ years of quality, manufacturing, and/or design/release related experience
- Proven track record developing and executing standardization and leadership
- Experience managing cross-functional teams
- Broad knowledge of automotive engineering, manufacturing, and quality
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with ability to interact at all organization levels
- Ability to collect and synthesize data into meaningful information and communicate clearly
- Self-directed, team oriented with demonstrated planning and problem-solving skills
- Experience and working knowledge of computer systems and software
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to build internal and external partnerships
- Expertise in planning, prioritizing, goal setting, and managing multiple projects
- Assertive and ambitious nature
- Results oriented
- Motivated to learn new principles and apply them
- Motivated to make a positive impact on work environment and product quality
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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