This Risk Mitigation Quality Engineer role is responsible for monitoring safety and regulatory engineering‑related recalls, identifying transversal root causes, and leading workstreams to develop effective corrective actions. The position requires executing these activities within defined timelines while ensuring a high level of detail, analytical depth, and lessons‑learned integration. Success in this role demands strong technical knowledge of vehicle systems, manufacturing and design processes, and the ability to lead and influence cross‑functional teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the analysis of safety and regulatory recalls to identify workstreams.
- Collaborate with responsible functional teams (e.g., design, manufacturing, supplier quality) to gather data, challenge assumptions, and conduct analysis and identify transversal root causes.
- Coach and mentor stakeholders on effective identification of transversal corrective actions planning and implementation utilizing lessons learned.
- Lead the implementation of transversal corrective actions and develop/revise standards/processes related to workstreams.
- Conduct reviews/approval of standards associated with workstreams.
- Monitor progress of corrective actions implementation, ensuring timely completion.
- Validate that corrective actions are systemic and sustainable, with appropriate read-across to future programs to prevent recurrence.
- Prepare documentation for senior-level review meetings, ensuring clarity, completeness, and executive-level readiness.
Main Deliverables:
- Monitors safety and regulatory recalls for trends
- Identify workstreams for topics discovered by the trend analysis
- Identify transversal root causes for the assigned workstreams
- Develop actions items to prevent root causes and reoccurrence of recalls
- Read-Across Strategy.
- Stakeholder Coaching and Engagement.
- Process Monitoring and Reporting
- Tool Utilization and Training
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
- 8+ years of experience in Engineering, Supplier Quality, or Manufacturing Engineering
- Proficiency in structured root cause analysis
- Familiarity with APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, and other core automotive quality tools
- Ability to interpret technical data, failure modes, and systemic process gaps
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills to guide cross-functional teams through LL development
- Ability to influence and lead teams without direct authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex issues into executive-level summaries
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and committed to delivering high-quality, timely results in a fast paced global environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in engineering
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field
- 8+ years of experience in Engineering, Supplier Quality, or Manufacturing Engineering
- Proficiency in structured root cause analysis
- Familiarity with APQP, PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, and other core automotive quality tools
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills to guide cross-functional teams
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.
