Product Quality Improvement Manager

Job Description

This is NOT a manufacturing Quality role. The Product Quality Manager works with cross functional project teams to ensure product and process quality improvement, meets high Bosch standards. The role has global responsibility to manage end to end quality of the product portfolio. A successful candidate will actively participate in product development and root cause investigation teams. This individual contributor position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic team environment with diverse individuals and groups located worldwide.

The ideal candidate will have high level of self-motivation, a drive for self-development, and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills; in addition to strong analytical skills, a committed attention to detail, and the ability to work within a structured product development process. This hybrid role will require the ideal candidate to be onsite in our Fairport, NY office full time for the first 2 months of employment to get acclimated to our people, process and products. A Hybrid work week can be arranged after that with expectations of being in the office 2-3 times per week.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for product and process quality within a gated product engineering process.

Assess the maturity and quality of hardware and software products in the engineering product quality role.

Train and mentor associates on the various quality methods including risk analysis and root cause investigation.

Monitor field performance using global returns database.

Support the corrective action process using the 8D principles.

Work closely with manufacturing plant to address product and process quality issues.

Support engineering team with design of experiments (DOE).

Identify and lead product and process continuous improvement projects (CIP) throughout the organization.

Support sustaining engineering design improvements.