Engineering Quality Manager, North America

Job Title: Engineering Quality Manager, North America

Job Location: Southfield, MI

What we offer:

Veoneer Safety Systems is the world leader in Automotive Electronic Safety Systems. Veoneer’s scalable, best-in-class restraint control systems are mitigating the effects of a car crash. To date, we have delivered more than 1 billion devices to car manufacturers globally.

Veoneer Safety Systems has an international and collaborative team of 2,700 employees in 11 countries. We empower our people and are dedicated to their professional development and growth.

Veoneer Safety Systems – Protect Everyone in Every Crash.

What you'll do:

We are seeking a manager, North America Engineering Quality to lead quality across U.S. product development programs. Partnering with Engineering, Program Management, Operations, Supplier Quality, and Customer Quality, this leader will strengthen risk prevention, process discipline, and release readiness across systems, software, and hardware development.

The successful candidate will bring an independent, evidence-based perspective, constructively challenging decisions, and serve as a trusted partner to engineering and business leaders.
Regional Quality Leadership and Execution

• Translate global Engineering Quality priorities into a clear regional strategy with measurable objectives.

• Drive quality governance across the region through clear decision criteria, escalation paths, and effective management reviews, ensuring consistent execution and follow-through.

• Partner with engineering and program leaders to identify risks early, prevent defects and rework, and resolve quality concerns before they affect milestones or customers.

Engineering Quality & Process Effectiveness

• Assess the maturity of the engineering process from requirements through release and convert gaps into focused improvement plans.

• Apply a risk-based quality approach tailored to product complexity, safety classification, customer needs, and program risk.

• Strengthen technical and release reviews through clear criteria, expert participation, risk-based challenge, and disciplined closure of findings.

• Monitor quality indicators and ensure lessons learned, corrective actions, and read-across improvements are implemented and sustained.

Automotive Standards, Safety, and Compliance

• Ensure processes and evidence meet customer regulatory, IATF 16949, functional safety (ISO26262), cybersecurity (ISO SAE 21434?), and Automotive SPICE requirements.

• Enforce complete, traceable, audit-ready work products that support sound release decisions.

• Lead or support assessments and drive timely, sustainable closure of findings.

Systems, Software, and Hardware Development Quality

• Strengthen quality planning across systems, software, and hardware development, including interfaces, verification, validation, and change control.

• Ensure end-to-end alignment and traceability from customer requirements and safety goals through implementation and verification.

• Build engineering team capability through coaching, practical standards, lessons learned, and targeted training.

Program & Project Management Integration

• Ensure program-level quality execution aligns with the global quality approach, including defined quality gates, risk reviews, readiness assessments, escalation, and issue of closure.

• Partner with Engineering and Program Management to strengthen planning, milestone readiness, prioritization, change control, and issue management.

People Leadership & Stakeholder Partnership

• Lead and develop the North America Engineering Quality team through clear priorities, coaching, training, feedback, and capability planning.

• Engage early with engineering and business leaders to challenge risks and embed quality requirements, architecture, design, and execution.

• Represent Engineering Quality in tollgate, leadership, and customer reviews, providing an independent readiness assessment and recommending a gate hold when required criteria are not met.

What you'll bring:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field.

Experience: 10+ years in automotive or another safety-critical product development environment, with at least 3 years leading people or major cross-functional quality initiatives. Experience in a complex, multi-site engineering organization is strongly preferred.

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of systems, software, and hardware development lifecycles; embedded automotive experience is preferred.

• Experience managing platform and application dependencies, interfaces, integration points, shared components, and release alignment.

• Working knowledge of IATF 16949, ISO 26262, automotive cybersecurity, Automotive SPICE, requirements engineering, traceability, configuration management, risk management, and verification and validation.

• Hands-on experience with APQP, FMEA, 8D, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and lessons learned.

• Experience integrating quality into Agile or scaled Agile planning, development, delivery, metrics, and retrospectives.

• Strong analytical judgment, leadership, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills across functions, locations, and cultures.

Location: Southfield, Michigan, United States;

Travel: Up to 10% of domestic and international travel.

Reporting and Collaboration: Reports to the Global Director, Engineering Quality. Partners with U.S. Engineering, Program Management, Operations, Supplier Quality, Customer Quality, Functional Safety, and Cybersecurity.