Program Quality Leader
Forvia · Shanghai
Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader
We pioneer technology for mobility experience that matter to people.
Your mission, roles and responsibilities
Are you ready to lead quality initiatives and represent the voice of the customer in a dynamic environment? Forvia is seeking a talented Program Quality Leader to join our team at our innovative facility.
As a Program Quality Leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of quality throughout our programs. Your responsibilities will include:
- Identifying initial Program Quality objectives, developing quality management plans, and ensuring regular follow-up.
- Achieving Quality objectives, including Safety & Regulation and Environmental standards, and cascading them to internal and external suppliers.
- Monitoring objective achievement through risk assessment based on FMEA, Special characteristics, capabilities, PPM, and more.
- Having the authority to halt any process or product delivery in case of serious non-conformance.
- Approving Design Validation Plans and Production Validation Tests, ensuring completion according to program milestones.
- Leading the development and production process for measurement, checking, and testing fixtures and gauges.
- Defining control plans and ensuring conformity, perceived quality, and traceability of parts delivered to the customer.
- Preparing and compiling Production Part Approval files and supporting the Plant Quality Engineer for initial sample submission.
- Leading relations with Customer Program Quality and applying Program Management System and Engineering Change Management standards.
Your profile and competencies to succeed
Description :
The main missions of the role are to:
The role of a Program Quality Leader is to guide quality development in programs until Start of Production, using the Program Management System to ensure customer satisfaction, and to coordinate efforts from all internal and external suppliers. The main missions of the role are to:
▪ Coordinate, develop and coach Program Quality Engineers in the advanced quality planning requirements in programs.
▪ Serve as the interface with customers regarding program quality and ensure that any customer complaints are correctly processed by the Program Quality Engineers and program team.
▪ Ensure that the quality development in any given program is on track with the program schedule.
▪ Ensure that product quality is guaranteed during the program phases, before Start of Production and during any modification process.
▪ Assure coordination between Program Quality Engineers and Supplier Quality Engineers so that quality from supplied parts is optimised.
▪ Validate prototypes with suppliers and customers.
Qualifications :
The ideal candidate will have/be:
▪ Bachelor's degree in Engineering
▪ Minimum 5 years experience, combining development and production
▪ Business and finance basics
▪ Knowledge of the automotive industry
▪ Results and teamwork orientation
▪ Customer management experience
▪ Experience and success managing a functional network
▪ Knowledge of Quality tools and a project or program management system
▪ English language required. Chinese language preferred.
What we can do for you
- At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
- We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
- We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
- We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
- We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
- Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.
Why join us
FORVIA, a global automotive technology supplier, comprises the complementary technology and industrial strengths of Faurecia and HELLA.
With over 137 500 people, including more than 12,000 R&D engineers across 40+ countries, FORVIA provides a unique and comprehensive approach to the automotive challenges of today and tomorrow. Composed of 6 business groups and a strong IP portfolio of over 12,400 patents, FORVIA is focused on becoming the preferred innovation and integration partner for OEMs worldwide.
In 2025, the Group achieved a consolidated revenue of 26.2 billion euros prior to IFRS 5. FORVIA SE is listed on the Euronext Paris market under the FRVIA mnemonic code and is a component of the SBF 120 index.
FORVIA aims to be a change maker committed to foreseeing and making the mobility transformation happen. www.forvia.com