Senior Product Quality Assurance Manager; Automotive

Position Overview:

We are looking for a Senior Product Quality Assurance Manager with 8-10 years of experience in the automotive domain, focusing on quality, processes, and standards. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with ASPICE processes and a solid understanding of development, verification, and validation lifecycles. This role will involve defining, deploying, and improving quality processes across multiple projects to ensure compliance and enhance product quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process Definition: Document process flow diagrams, including descriptions of process steps, guidelines, templates, and checklists.
• Process Deployment: Ensure ASPICE process compliance and deploy defined processes across various projects.
• Collaboration: Work with other teams to understand current workflows and ensure adherence to established processes.
• Process Harmonization: Assist project teams in implementing ASPICE and process improvements, fostering a culture of quality.
• Feedback Loop Implementation: Create and implement a feedback mechanism to incorporate improvement ideas from project teams into process documentation.
• Training: Conduct and assist in ASPICE process training sessions for team members.
• Quality Assurance: Enhance overall quality goals by ensuring process compliance and detailing quality assurance practices as defined by ASPICE.
• Risk Management: Identify and address relevant risks and issues to add substantial value to quality assurance efforts.

Candidate Requirements:

• Experience: 8-10 years of work experience in the automotive domain, specifically in quality, processes, and standards.
• ASPICE Expertise: Hands-on experience with ASPICE process workflows in practical implementation scenarios, with extensive knowledge of ASPICE v3.1 and v4.0 across software, hardware, and mechanical domains.
• Lifecycle Understanding: Thorough understanding of the development, verification, and validation lifecycle and methodologies.
• Process Implementation: Proven experience in process definition and implementation, based on business needs and tool/infrastructure considerations.
• Quality Management: Experience in quality management practices supporting automotive embedded mechatronics system projects and multi-disciplinary projects.
• Documentation Skills: Proficient in preparing process documentation and conducting audits of quality management systems.
• Analytical Skills: Strong ability to diagnose and resolve process issues effectively.
• Stakeholder Management: Experience interfacing independently with various stakeholders.
• System Approach: Exposure to product development with a system-oriented approach.

Soft Skills:

• Communication: Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly.
• Creativity: Ability to develop systemic and creative approaches to problem-solving.

Please send CV to garethroberts@arionrecruitment.co.uk if interested!