Program Quality Leader Level 1

Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader
We pioneer technology for mobility experience that matter to people.

Your Mission, Roles And Responsibilities
Are you ready to lead quality initiatives and represent the voice of the customer in a dynamic environment? Forvia is seeking a talented Program Quality Leader to join our team at our innovative facility.

Responsibilities
As a Program Quality Leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of quality throughout our programs. Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying initial Program Quality objectives, developing quality management plans, and ensuring regular follow-up.
• Achieving Quality objectives, including Safety & Regulation and Environmental standards, and cascading them to internal and external suppliers.
• Monitoring objective achievement through risk assessment based on FMEA, Special characteristics, capabilities, PPM, and more.
• Having the authority to halt any process or product delivery in case of serious non-conformance.
• Approving Design Validation Plans and Production Validation Tests, ensuring completion according to program milestones.
• Leading the development and production process for measurement, checking, and testing fixtures and gauges.
• Defining control plans and ensuring conformity, perceived quality, and traceability of parts delivered to the customer.
• Preparing and compiling Production Part Approval files and supporting the Plant Quality Engineer for initial sample submission.
• Leading relations with Customer Program Quality and applying Program Management System and Engineering Change Management standards.

Your profile and competencies to succeed
Minimum education level

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering

Professional Experience

• Minimum of two (2) years automotive experience

Skills And Competencies

• Strong analytical and proven team-oriented problem solving-skills required.
• Strong customer satisfaction orientation.
• In-depth knowledge of quality engineering techniques
• In-depth knowledge of Metrology
• Above average communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Fluent in English required

What We Can Do For You

• At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
• We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
• We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
• We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
• We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
• Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.

Why join us
FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility. We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.

With a history stretching back more than a century, we are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries. You'll find our technology in around 1 out of 2 vehicles produced anywhere in the world.

In June 2022, we became the 1st global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard. We have committed to reach CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.

As technological innovation and the need for sustainability transform the automotive industry, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions that will enhance the lives of road-users everywhere.