Scout Motors
Manager, Project Quality
$120K–$145K
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Charlotte, NC - Experience
- 7+ years of automotive engineering or product quality experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles within an OEM or Tier 1 environment.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical/Vehicle Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Leads project quality strategy and execution for assigned vehicle programs from early development through end-of-production, ensuring quality standards, safety, reliability, and production readiness.
What you'll do
- Implement quality objectives, targets, KPIs, maturity milestones, and processes for assigned programs.
- Oversee preventive quality plans, quality gates, escalations, issue resolution, and final whole-vehicle approval for serial production.
- Lead and develop project quality professionals and coordinate cross-functional teams to resolve program risks and quality issues.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical/Vehicle Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of automotive engineering or product quality experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles within an OEM or Tier 1 environment.
- Deep technical understanding of vehicle development and manufacturing across body, electrical, chassis, propulsion, battery systems, infotainment, and connectivity.
- Demonstrated success leading complex automotive programs and navigating cross-functional environments.
Nice to have
- ASQ certification or AIAG or VDA methodology experience.
- Experience establishing or scaling quality systems in a new or rapidly evolving organization.
Pay
$120,000.00 - $145,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
AIAG, VDA
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative