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Project Milestone Keeper

Auburn Hills, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Aug 2025

About the role

The Stellantis Customer Experience organization is currently seeking a highly skilled, solutions-oriented Project Milestone Assessor to join the Quality team in Auburn Hills, MI. The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring launched products exceed customer expectations as measured in the six types of Quality. This role serves as a support role in the independent review of the vehicle development process to ensure they are completed to an acceptable standard to deliver a quality product to the customer at the launch of a new product. The ideal candidate must have a proven track record of developing and executing standardization and leadership. The selected individual will have experience in managing cross-functional teams and possess a broad knowledge of the entire automotive engineering, manufacturing, and quality landscape. The candidate must be a high-energy, hands-on individual with strength of convictions -- a self-confident leader who, in part due to his/her personal presence, style, and demeanor, effectively sells ideas and solutions to others. Moreover, this person must have unquestioned integrity. In the field of the Customer Experience, the Project Milestone Assessor:

Appreciates the follow up of the Projects through different KPI (Quality, Performances, Cost, Time schedule, Industrial, Supply Chain, Brand, etc.)
Ensures that all Project expected deliverables are achieved at each milestone by managing interviews with the main principals of the project
Rates the risks of the projects. Ensures that all the objective (QCDP) risks or gaps have a corrective plan
Pays specific attention to the Quality results (Product and Industrial)
Draws up the milestone assessment according to the Project development
Supports the Project Teams and Mass-production Teams to deploy the quality methods and all the methods needed to master the running and the achievement of the Product Quality and Quality Processes results
Contributes to the improvement of the standards by bringing the lessons learned during the Project or Mass-production development
Draws up the lessons learned and shares them
Brings their experience to update or improve the processes or methods

Their scope is:

The Vehicle Projects - The Projects developed with partners (JV or Partnership), as such, the PMA:

Links with the PMK with the Project Teams (the RQP) in order to have regularly feedback and to follow the convergence to the deliverables expected for each milestone
Establishes with the Project Team the roadmap of the actions to be done until the milestone, based on a rating of the topics to fulfill
Draws up the milestone assessment and its synthesis
Manages the proofreading meeting of the milestone assessment with the Project and the main principals of the other directions involved
Ensures the final distribution of the milestone assessment is done to the right people in the company
Ensures the right implementation of the project quality referential
Attends to the methods or standards improvements meetings by bringing their own experience
Arranges the meetings needed with the principals involved and the Project in order to help to define the action plans (If necessary)
Identifies the good practices and analyses the difficulties of the projects they have in their overall perimeter in order to save this information and to give his lessons learned to the other projects

EOE/Disability/Veteran Qualifications BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor of Science in Engineering - Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace/Aeronautical, Biomedical/Biomechanical/Bioengineering, Chemical, Civil or Materials from an ABET accredited university
7 + years of quality, manufacturing, and or design/release related experience
Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to deal with a variety of people at all levels of the organization
Ability to collect and synthesize data into meaningful information and communicate clearly to all levels of the organization
Self-directed, team oriented with demonstrated planning/problem-solving skills
Experience and working knowledge of computer systems and software required

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