Position Purpose:
The Top Hat & FEA-x Quality Lead aggregates the former DQL (Top Hat Quality Lead) and FEA-x Quality Lead roles into a single end-to-end Quality authority embedded within the FEA-x organization.
The role ensures robust launches of Top Hat programs and serial life windows sharing the same electrical architecture by:
- Securing full compliance to Functional PDP and legacy EHE deliverables at each milestone
- Bringing the Voice of the Customer into the Top Hat development loop
- Driving quality convergence and issue burn-down toward SOP
- Ensuring lessons learned are captured and implemented across programs
This position acts as the Quality integrator between Top Hat programs and the FEA-x machinery.
Global Mission:
Why this role exists
- Guarantee quality readiness at Top Hat launch
- Ensure electrical architecture consistency across programs
- Anticipate and mitigate quality risks before SOP
- Drive robust convergence of electrical software and functional topics
Key Responsibilities
- Quality Governance of Top Hat Programs
- Target deployment and Quality metrics achievemnt
- Ensure compliance to Functional PDP and EHE legacy deliverables
- Identify missing or weak deliverables impacting launch quality
- Challenge program teams on readiness gaps
- Program Quality Assessment (with FEAs & SSTMs)
Drive structured Design reviews covering:
2.1 Quality Status
- Functional design readiness
- Software robustness including DTC convergence
2.2 Issue Tracking
- Critical issue identification and prioritization
- Escalation management (FEW / TCCB / Project review)
2.3 Deliverables Achievement
- Packaging & schematics releases
- 12v energy system compliance
- Diagnosis strategy compliance
- EOL / Flashing convergence
- Industrial readiness consistency
- Lessons Learned & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure lessons learned are properly captured at Top Hat level
- Guarantee effective re-injection into future programs sharing same architecture
- Capitalize systemic issues across EHE + FEA-x perimeter
- Risk assessment for issues entering the deferral process – Evaluate severity, occurrence, and detection to support go/no-go recommendations and appropriate containment strategies.
- Quality position in Industrial and Deferral Committees – Represent the Quality standpoint, ensuring decisions are data-driven and aligned with customer and brand expectations.
- Customer impact assessment and mitigation – Ensure impacts are fully understood (field, service, manufacturing) and that mitigation plans are defined, validated, and tracked to closure.
- Recovery& Convergence Leadership
- Build robust recovery plans with SSTMs when required – Define containment, corrective actions, verification steps, and timing to recover milestone readiness and protect SOP delivery.
- Drive cross-functional alignment (EHE / SWE / CCLP / Vehicle Engineering) – Facilitate shared prioritization, clear ownership, and synchronized execution across functions to remove blockers quickly.
- Secure quality convergence prior to key milestones and SOPM up to MPTR – Monitor convergence indicators and enforce closure of critical gaps to achieve a stable, customer-ready product at each gate.
Authority* & Impact* :
- Quality authority for Top Hat electrical perimeter
- Escalation right on blocking quality risks
- Influence on launch readiness decision
- Transversal visibility across architectures
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- A minimum of 8 years experience in engineering and/or quality
- Deep understanding of Functional PDP & EHE deliverables, SW and Connectivity development plan
- Knowledge of service and manufacturing processes
- Proven launch management exposure
- Ability to challenge senior stakeholders
- Strong risk assessment and recovery planning capability
