Head of Quality Management
MAHLE · Dayton, OH
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level quality role at MAHLE (automotive) in Dayton, OH. As Head of Quality Management , you will be responsible for leading the entire Quality organization across MAHLE Dayton’s North and South facilities, ensuring customer satisfaction, product quality, compliance with automotive quality standards, and.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- SPC, FMEA, PPAP, DOE, IATF 16949, Internal audits
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Ohio: typical posted base $90k–$130k.
Median of the low and high ends of 7 live postings that list pay, out of 63 quality engineer openings in Ohio, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Ohio plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 62 other live quality postings in Ohio.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 5+)
Typical $90k–$130k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 62%
- ✓ PPAP 48%
- ISO 9001 46%
- Supplier quality 43%
- ✓ FMEA 41%
- APQP 37%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for DOE, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Quality team at MAHLE
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Which standards drive the work here: ISO 13485, IATF 16949, AS9100?
- How much of the job is customer complaints versus prevention?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: MAHLE in Dayton
1 other open role at this site.
- 2nd and 3rd Shift Electro-Mechanical Technician · Reliability · Technician
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Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent from an accredited four-year college or university with a minimum 5 to 8 years of related experience within the automotive industry focusing on Quality systems.
- ✓Lead Auditor Training TS 16949.
- ✓VDA 6.3 Auditor Training.
Our Offer
We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with ongoing personal & career development opportunities.
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!
After receiving your online application, the interview process will typically be, a screening call followed by Personal Interview(s)
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#DiversityMatters with our inclusive culture, we welcome applications from all social, religious & ethnical backgrounds, disabilities both mental and physical, identities (gender) and neurodivergent people.
MAHLE is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment based non-immigrant and immigrant visas. However, as a global company, MAHLE offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website www.jobs.mahle.com
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Your Contribution
As Head of Quality Management , you will be responsible for leading the entire Quality organization across MAHLE Dayton’s North and South facilities, ensuring customer satisfaction, product quality, compliance with automotive quality standards, and continuous improvement throughout the manufacturing operation. This role will provide strategic and operational leadership for a Quality team of approximately 85 employees supporting thermal management and powertrain cooling product lines.
- •Structure all quality related work in regards to cost and timeline.
- •Coordinate the work packages of Quality and ensure timely decisions in core team and extended team.
- •Support of Project Manager and involved domains in their exercise of quality related tasks with methods and tools.
- •Create transparency and ensure proper reporting of quality related issues in Core Team and committees (incl. escalation).
- •Ensure integration of known lessons learned within project (related to product and production concept).
- •Create failure eradication plan and difference analysis.
- •Create and update quality plan.
- •Ensure adherence to prevailing guidelines (group policies, internal standards, etc.).
- •Ensure application of relevant norms.
- •Ensure adoption of provided QM-methods (e.g. Functional Analysis, FMEA, DOE, PPAP, SPC, 8-D).
- •Support gap analysis.
- •Support review of customer requirements.
- •Support creation of design verification plan.
- •Other duties as assigned.