
Quality Manager
Tenneco · Smithville, TN
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- 13 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management quality role at Tenneco (automotive) in Smithville, TN. Acts as the Champion of the quality function and drives the business to meet or exceed its quality goals.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- IATF 16949
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How this role compares
Against 22 other live quality postings in Tennessee.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $80k–$120k, from 8 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 48%
- Lean 35%
- ✓ Team leadership 35%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 35%
- SPC 30%
- Supplier quality 30%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention 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 Tenneco
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
Apply with someone vouching for you
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.
- 5
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: Tenneco in Smithville
2 other open roles at this site.
- Production Supervisor · Production · Supervisor
- Maintenance Technician · Reliability · Technician
Full description from TennecoAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
About the role
The Quality Manager ensures manufacturing quality leadership at the site, aligning plant strategic goals to Quality requirements. This role leads improvement objectives consistent with Tenneco’s enterprise-wide standards. You will leverage your technical and operational knowledge in manufacturing quality control systems to ensure Tenneco products meet required customer standards.
Key responsibilities
- ◆Acts as the Champion of the quality function and drives the business to meet or exceed its quality goals.
- ◆Drives compliance with the Quality Management System & necessary industry certifiactions (IATF) in line with Tenneco’s global quality objectives, ensuring that businesses/manufacturing processes and metrics are aligned to create high product quality and maintains our competitive advantage.
- ◆Supervises and directs the activities of the Quality Assurance Department, including establishing and operating within department budgets and regularly auditing quality processes.
- ◆Interacts with customers concerning plant certification, complaints, corrective action required from either and provides appropriate follow up.
- ◆Implements procedures for inspection of incoming raw materials and components and review quality problems with vendors. Provides supplier surveillance assistance as required.
- ◆Training and mentoring staff on quality standards, processes, and procedures.
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Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
- ✓Min 3-5 years of experience in leading a Quality function/ program within a manufacturing environment
- ✓Strategic vision and communication skills related to Quality Manufacturing Systems engagement
- ✓Proven experiene pursuing operational excellence within Quality Management
- ✓Ownership, proactive approach
We don’t want average. We want exceptional. We want someone who’s hungry to build, unafraid to challenge, and bold enough to lead with empathy, speed, and precision. Sound like you? Let us know.
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About tenneco
At Tenneco, we don’t follow industry standards; we set them, and we don’t settle for being best-in-class because we hustle to be better than best-in-class. Whether it’s our Core Values–radical candor, simplify, organizational velocity, tenacious execution and win–or our Get Stuff Done (GSD) mindset, we’re determined to become the most trusted partner and best manufacturer and distributor to the transportation industry.
How do we make it happen? Through the Tenneco Way. Fueled by our Core Values, a winning mindset and a relentless commitment to excellence, the Tenneco Way is how we win. It’s what keeps Team Tenneco bold, driven, and unapologetically focused on pushing past limits and redefining success.
Here, you’ll work alongside a team of relentless problem-solvers who are committed to making a tangible impact. If you’re ready to break boundaries, deliver results, and enjoy the ride along the way, you’ll thrive here.
Want to learn more about who we are? Check out our website to discover the Tenneco Way .
