Quality Assurance Manager

Company Description

We are the Adaptive Powerhouse for Future Mobility, making it safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous. To achieve this goal, we develop, produce and supply technologically leading and market-oriented products, hardware, software and modern mobility solutions. In addition, we offer various services. Our diverse portfolio features a multitude of extremely well-established products and underpins our strong market position.

Born from Continental’s Automotive group sector and established as an independent company in September 2025, we are building on decades of expertise while creating something entirely new. With around 87,000 employees in more than 100 locations worldwide and sales of €19.6 billion in 2024, we are a global technology powerhouse — and at the same time, a company at the exciting beginning of its own journey. Our portfolio spans across cutting-edge technologies that make mobility safe, connected, exciting, and increasingly autonomous: from sensors and displays to braking and comfort systems, and from advanced software platforms to intelligent driver assistance systems. But what truly defines AUMOVIO is not only what we do — it’s how we do it. We empower people to take ownership, explore bold ideas, and push boundaries together. Here, you can play an active role in shaping our culture, driving innovation, and writing the next chapter of mobility.

Job Description

Conduct routine and non-routine analyses of in-process materials, raw materials, and finished goods. Prioritize, coordinate and plan activities of Process Specialists and Technicians by shift and ensure that issues are driven to completion, e.g. scrap cost reduction projects, Control Plan reviews, CPKs (process capability indicators) review and improvements.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide training to team members. Support and lead quality initiatives for scrap reduction, including planning and carrying out special studies as needed to lower NOK and reject rates, gathering data for changes to the process or product, and IDM (Internal Defect Management) or Jidoka process.
• Evaluate analytical methods and procedures to determine how they might be improved. Investigate or report questionable test results, failures or out-of-specification parts.
• Manage and identify quality problems on any assembly line found to have conditions that may produce non-conforming, or out-of-specification parts not rejected by the test stations and recommend solutions and corrective actions.
• Interpret test results, compare them to established specifications and control limits, and make recommendations on appropriateness of data for release.
• Monitor testing procedures to ensure that all tests are performed according to established item specifications, standard test methods, or protocols. 
• Quarantine any product or piece parts judged non-conforming or suspect; stop shipments suspected of having non-conforming product and perform containment/sorting.
• Lead the initiation and closure of 8D reports to ensure corrective action implementation when problems with assembly processes or programming have been identified.
• Identify and troubleshoot equipment problems.
• Issue Quality Notifications for non-conforming material and ensure correct and detailed problem/defect description, as needed.
• Coordinate piece part complaints with QA Purchased Parts. Coordinate initial line/process qualifications and process re-qualifications, obtain proper approvals and maintain process/line qualification documentation.
• Evaluate process changes and deviations, prepare the formal documents, Process Deviation forms, etc., obtain proper authorization, and monitor expiration dates.
• Ensure capable processes by identifying critical and significant characteristics from product drawings.
• Establish proper documentation to monitor process capability; calculate control limits and CPK-values. Analyze and implement test limits using Envision software as well as Minitab. Provide safe launch plans, CPKs and IDM data for all new projects.
• Supply quality control data necessary for regulatory submissions. Write or revise standard quality control operating procedures.
• Perform blocked stock management by supervising Material on Hold and Released in SAP.
• Ensure compliance with the P-FMEA and Control Plan.
• Ensure that lab cleanliness and safety standards are maintained. 
• Participate in internal assessments and audits as required. 
• Available on an on-call basic in case of quality problems

Qualifications

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE ROLE

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electromechanical or Industrial Engineering or related or equivalent.
• Requires seven (7) ye