Group Lead Quality (Human)

YOUR MISSION & CHALLENGES You lead your own quality team and own quality in your area, from industrialization to series production, with a clear focus on prevention.

• Leading and developing your quality team, both disciplinarily and professionally
• Steering quality planning and inspection strategies, including the quality approval of engineering changes
• Building lean, scalable quality processes and helping to shape robust manufacturing processes
• Representing quality early on in close collaboration with engineering, production, purchasing and logistics
• Planning and running product and process audits as well as further developing supplier quality
• Steering quality through KPIs and leading complex problem solving (e.g. 8D) for critical deviations and complaints, so errors don’t happen again
• Anchoring a living quality culture across the entire company What we can look forward to
• A degree in engineering or a state-certified technician qualification (e.g. mechanical engineering, mechatronics, electrical engineering)
• Several years of experience in industrial quality management, ideally in automotive, mechanical engineering or robotics and with leadership responsibility
• Experience in industrialization, production ramp-up or series support
• Confident, pragmatic use of FMEA, 8D and SPC; an auditor qualification (e.g. VDA 6.3 or IATF) and experience in supplier quality or metrology are a plus
• A shaper’s mindset, the drive to push topics forward and ideally first experience building a quality organization in a scale-up
• A leadership style at eye level, based on trust, and joy in hands-on work
• Business-fluent German and English