Senior Quality Systems & Compliance Lead (Automotive Coatings)

Senior Quality Systems & Compliance Lead (Automotive Coatings)

Imagine your day at NPAA : You start by reviewing the internal audit calendar across multiple sites, confirming a registrar audit schedule, and scanning overnight updates from a supplier audit you coordinated with Purchasing. By mid-morning, you’re fine-tuning a revised SOP for the Quality Management System, then leading a quick huddle to train new hires and QA specialists on the latest IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 requirements. After lunch, you close out corrective actions from a sample audit, log calibration records, and plan the next round of MSA (GR&R) evaluations. You wrap up by compiling the monthly report—capturing audit findings and corrective actions, the IATF / ISO audit schedule, and formal audit summaries—before heading to a company event that celebrates team wins.

What you’ll lead

• Ensure processes and products at your assigned site comply with IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 standards.
• Upgrade, implement, and maintain the Quality Management System (QMS) : draft new procedures, revise existing SOPs, and train employees for proper adoption; support other departments with SOP updates.
• Own NPAA’s internal audit program and coordinate external audits with customers and third-party certification / regulatory bodies : schedule internal audits and registrar visits; conduct or manage sample audits; report audit findings; support corrective and preventive actions; and train internal auditors on NPAA Quality Systems.
• Partner with Purchasing and other groups to support supplier audits; complete customer self-assessments and audit surveys; assist with customer-requested and special audits at your site; support other corporate / plant audits as needed.
• Drive site compliance projects : manage calibration activities and records; oversee document control; lead or assist with MSA (GR&R) on inspection methods; and support FMEA, APQP, and PPAP.
• Represent Quality on cross-functional Quality Improvement Teams and perform other related duties as assigned.

Monthly reporting you’ll deliver

What you bring

Additional competencies

Why NPAA

Compensation

$63,169.60 to $96,220.80, negotiable based on experience and skill set.

Our commitment

We build strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and colleagues, and we invest in training—especially for new hires and QA specialists—to keep NPAA the market leader in automotive coatings.

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.