Position Summary
The Serial Life Quality Lead – VEHE is responsible for end-to-end coordination and execution of Serial Life Quality across VSSQ, VIMN, and VCDY. This role serves as the primary VEHE quality integrator and focal point for serial life topics, ensuring strong alignment between Vehicle Engineering, Manufacturing Plants, Supplier Quality, and central Quality organizations. The position is accountable for driving fast and robust issue resolution through Control Tower and RACE governance, maintaining visibility of serial life risks and priorities, and providing consolidated plant-level and vehicle-level quality summaries for executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Serial Life Quality Ownership
- Own and coordinate Serial Life Quality execution for VEHE, spanning VSSQ, VIMN, and VCDY.
- Serve as the main VEHE focal point for serial life quality topics and priorities.
Control Tower & RACE (VEHE Lead)
- Act as the primary VEHE contact for the Quality Control Tower.
- Lead VEHE engagement in the RACE process, ensuring timely escalation and follow-up.
Cross-Functional Issue Resolution
- Lead cross-functional teams to improve speed and robustness of issue resolution.
- Drive structured problem-solving and read-across across plants and programs.
Plant & Supplier Quality Interface
- Coordinate with Manufacturing Plants to support serial life reactivity.
- Partner with Supplier Quality to ensure containment and corrective actions.
Governance, Reporting & GAS Management
- Own and maintain the GAS list.
- Prepare plant-level and vehicle-level summaries for executive reviews.
Preferred QualificationsBasic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent technical discipline.
- 10 years engineering experience
- Experience in Engineering, Supplier Quality, or Manufacturing / Plant Quality.
- Strong knowledge of serial life quality and reactivity governance.
Key Interfaces
VEHE (VSSQ, VIMN, VCDY), Quality Control Tower, Manufacturing Plants, Supplier Quality, Vehicle Engineering, Executive Leadership
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent technical discipline.
- 10 years engineering experience
- Experience in Engineering, Supplier Quality, or Manufacturing / Plant Quality
- Strong knowledge of serial life quality and reactivity governance
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.
