Director of Quality - North America

What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
The Magna Exteriors portfolio of products includes access systems such as liftgates, exterior trim, modular systems, front-end modules including fascia, active aerodynamic systems and other lightweight structural components for automotive, commercial truck and other industrial markets.
Recognized globally as an innovator in all aspects of vehicle exteriors, Magna provides everything needed, from materials development and design through manufacturing and assembly, to help automakers create sleek, state-of-the-art vehicles across the world.
Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with IATF and other certifications. Provide support as an escalation point for registrar and IAOB and other boards
• Foster collaboration among stakeholders and align organizational and customer goals.
• Address product quality issues with customers and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Support plants in resolving quality problems and provide on-site leadership.
• Analyze data to identify risks and initiate improvement projects by developing and executing long-term progressive strategy to ensure the Quality function becomes increasingly proactive in addressing Magna Exteriors manufacturing plant performance issues.
• Participate in quality audits and ensure global standards in plants.
• Promote continuous improvement and reduce the cost of poor quality.
• Oversee divisional quality organization structure and ensure adequate resources for training, onboarding, sharing best practices
• Develop a proactive quality management strategy.
• Lead regional Quality Manager meetings and best practice workshops; create and track Global Corrective Actions and Read across (GCAR) in a timely manner
• Support new programs with QMS standards, APQP, change management, FMEA and participate in improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate and report quality metrics to indicate customer satisfaction.
• Participate in Quality Leadership meetings to establish improvement short and long term plans.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Worker Type:
Regular / Permanent
Group:
Magna Exteriors