The Project Quality Manager – PRS is a program-oriented leadership role responsible for defining, integrating, and executing the quality strategy across the full propulsion system program lifecycle. This position operates at the intersection of Program Management and Quality, ensuring alignment between quality deliverables, program timing, cost, and risk objectives.
The PQM drives cross-functional convergence, ensures disciplined execution of program milestones, and proactively manages risks and dependencies to ensure successful program launches and sustained customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
Program Management & Governance (Enhanced Focus)
- Act as the Quality lead within the Program Management structure, ensuring alignment of quality deliverables with overall program timing, cost, and scope objectives
- Drive program governance for quality, including milestone readiness, risk reviews, and escalation management
- Lead cross-functional program reviews, ensuring quality risks, issues, and actions are clearly defined, tracked, and resolved
- Develop and maintain integrated program quality plans aligned with master schedules and key deliverables
- Ensure structured risk identification, mitigation planning, and execution tracking throughout the lifecycle
- Support decision-making by providing data-driven quality insights and trade-off analysis to program leadership
Quality Planning & Execution
- Define and implement the quality plan, ensuring rigorous execution across the full program lifecycle
- Lead quality convergence from early concept through six months post-SOP
- Oversee development and management of quality targets, forecasts, risks, and customer satisfaction metrics
- Ensure effective integration of APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) and PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) deliverables at the system level
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve as a key interface between engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and program teams, ensuring alignment and accountability
- Drive collaboration across stakeholders including vehicle programs, and industrial teams
- Lead structured problem-solving efforts and ensure closure through standardized methodologies
Risk, Issue, and Change Management
- Proactively manage program risks and quality issues, including escalation, containment, root cause analysis, and corrective actions
- Ensure lessons learned are captured and systematically applied to current and future programs
- Manage deviations and ensure compliance with mandatory requirements (IAA)
Program Deliverables & Reporting
- Ensure readiness and completeness of program milestone deliverables and acceptance reviews
- Prepare and deliver program-level quality reporting, including KPIs, risk status, and action plans
- Document design assessments and evaluate customer impact of deviations
Launch & Post-Launch Support
- Ensure achievement of quality targets for launches and secondary programs
- Lead early warning systems (FEW) and drive rapid response where required
- Support industrialization quality assessments in coordination with plant and industrial quality teams
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
- Minimum of 8 years of experience demonstrating Project and Program Management relative to Quality roles within the automotive industry
- Strong knowledge of program management disciplines (timing, risk management, milestone governance)
- Proficiency in quality tools, methodologies, and customer claim management
Program & Leadership Capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional programs or major workstreams with accountability for delivery
- Strong experience in risk management, issue resolution, and escalation handling within complex programs
- Proven ability to operate within structured program governance frameworks
- Capable of balancing competing priorities across quality, cost, and timing constraints
Strategic & Analytical Thinking
- Ability to translate program objectives into actionable quality strategies and execution plans
- Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills with a program-level perspective
Teamwork & Communication
- Excellent management and communication skills across all organizational levels
- Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across diverse teams
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
- Minimum of 8 years of project and program management experience in quality roles within the automotive industry
- Strong knowledge of program management disciplines including timing, risk management, and milestone governance
- Proficiency in quality tools, methodologies, and customer claim management
- Experience defining and implementing integrated program quality plans and executing across full program lifecycle
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional programs or major workstreams with delivery accountability
- Strong experience in risk management, issue resolution, escalation handling, and structured problem solving
- Proven ability to operate within structured program governance frameworks and provide data-driven quality insights
- Strong data analysis and program-level problem solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across organizational levels
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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