The Corporate Innovation and QMS manager is responsible for developing, deploying, auditing, and sustaining corporate-level Manufacturing Quality standards across North American operations. This role supports inspection standards, certification processes, QMS/SIS best practices, reactivity processes, Quality Certification line, Production Quality Gates, Stellantis Customer Audit, and other global/regional quality standards. The specialist serves as a subject-matter expert for process quality, providing hands-on support to assembly plants, conducting process assessments, ensuring regulatory and internal compliance, and driving standardization and continuous improvement.
Deliverables:
Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Develop, implement, and maintain corporate process and inspection standards
- Ensure consistent application of QMS, SIS fundamentals, PQG, SCA, and certification processes across NA plants
- Conduct process assessments to validate readiness, robustness, and compliance before process or product changes
- Support internal QMS/ISO audits and SIS fundamentals audits
- Ensure standards meet regulation, ISO requirements, and company expectations
- Develop and sustain Professional Inspection standards and best practices.
- Support Certification Line processes and government/regulatory practices related to manufacturing quality
- Execute or support process quality tasks within BIW, Paint, and General Assembly, including online inspection, torque auditing, control plans, PFMEAs, and traceability
- Analyze internal/external quality indicators to identify trends and validate quality control effectiveness
- Review and interpret MCV (Palantir) data to verify process performance
- Lead robust root-cause analysis activities to resolve issues and prevent recurrence
- Recommend and implement mistake-proofing and cost-effective quality improvements
- Support launch readiness and implementation of new methodologies in assembly manufacturing facilities
- Provide training and coaching on inspection standards, QMS/SIS best practices, and process quality expectations for hourly and salaried employees
- Share best practices globally to ensure alignment with North American process integrity
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ years of manufacturing or quality experience
- Strong communication skills, including ability to present technical content
- Experience with vehicle certification, inspection processes, and/or QMS
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and quality data systems (MCV/Palantir)
- Demonstrated problem-solving and planning capability
- Ability to train in both classroom and shop-floor settings
- Ability to travel to North American assembly plants as needed
- Ability to work autonomously and meet tight deadlines
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with PQG, control plans, PFMEA, DVX/FTQ/DRL processes
- Experience with BIW, Paint, or General Assembly inspection and quality methods
- Strong data visualization and reporting skills
- Knowledge of SIS fundamentals and mistake-proofing strategies
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of manufacturing or quality experience
- Strong communication skills, including ability to present technical content
- Experience with vehicle certification, inspection processes, and/or QMS
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and quality data systems (MCV/Palantir)
- Demonstrated problem-solving and planning capability
- Ability to train in both classroom and shop-floor settings
- Ability to travel to North American assembly plants as needed
- Ability to work autonomously and meet tight deadlines
- Experience with PQG, control plans, PFMEA, DVX/FTQ/DRL processes
- Experience with BIW, Paint, or General Assembly inspection and quality methods
- Strong data visualization and reporting skills
- Knowledge of SIS fundamentals and mistake-proofing strategies
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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What We Do
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.
