APQP Program Manager – Product Quality Assurance Engineering
Hitachi
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Madrid • 🇪🇸 Spain
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Lead APQP Deployment: Act as the global lead for APQP project management, ensuring consistent execution across functions and sites, implementing QMS adaptation and scalability to processes, including gate models, to embed APQP compliance to all product lines
- Multi-Site Coordination: Oversee and align APQP and quality assurance efforts across multiple locations, embedding best practices and harmonized standards, leading selected pilots under the gate model execution
- Process Integration & Governance: Integrate quality processes with an end-to-end holistic view across our business management system, with strong cross-functional collaboration and effective change management
- Training & Culture Building: Lead training programs to foster a zero-defect mindset and ensure adoption of APQP principles across all lifecycle phases, from product development lifecycle, toward project engineering, execution and service
- Risk Management & Quality Planning: Identify and mitigate product quality risks using DFMEA/PFMEA, Control Plans, Lessons Learned and Measurement System Analysis, with a robust program management integrated quality plan
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with suppliers, internal and external customers, to ensure quality expectations are met or exceeded
- Audits & Compliance: Lead quality audits, support gate reviews, and ensure adherence to regulatory and customer requirements
- Continuous Improvement: Apply Lean Six Sigma, quality tools, and structured problem-solving tools to drive long-term quality improvements in collaboration with all product value chain
Requirements
- Degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, or related field), Quality Management, or equivalent
- 10+ years of experience in product development or program management within a manufacturing or industrial environment utilizing APQP
- Proven experience with APQP tools (PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, MSA, Process Capability, etc.) and quality systems across multiple sites
- Strong understanding of NPI processes, product lifecycle, regulatory standards (ISO, APQP4Wind), and quality assurance methodologies
- Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent experience preferred
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and manufacturing documentation
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required
- Additional languages are considered a plus
Benefits
- Employee benefit programs are tailored to each country depending on location of employment and job grade
- Contact your talent acquisition partner for more specific information on the employee benefit program offering
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
APQPDFMEAPFMEAControl PlansLessons LearnedMeasurement System AnalysisLean Six SigmaQuality Management SystemsProcess CapabilityNPI processes
Soft skills
stakeholder engagementcross-functional collaborationchange managementtrainingculture buildingproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershiporganizational skillszero-defect mindset
Certifications
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt