About The Role

The Quality Auditor is responsible for leading manufacturing quality system auditing activities to ensure compliance with customer, regulatory, certification, and corporate standards. This role drives continuous improvement across quality systems, manufacturing processes, environmental, health and safety programs, and finished product quality. The position partners closely with plant leadership and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, strengthen quality performance, and support operational excellence. Success in this role contributes directly to product integrity, customer satisfaction, and business results.

Why This Role Matters

Ensures manufacturing processes and finished products meet or exceed customer, regulatory, certification, and corporate quality standards.
Maintains compliance with quality management systems and supports successful external, certification, and customer audits.
Drives continuous improvement initiatives that enhance process capability, product quality, and operational performance.
Provides critical audit insights, data analysis, and corrective action follow-up to support informed business decisions.

What You Will Do

Plan, organize, and direct activities related to auditing and improving manufacturing quality systems, environmental, health and safety programs, hazardous material handling, and finished product quality.
Establish strong partnerships with manufacturing teams and service departments to promote quality excellence and continuous improvement.
Maintain compliance with certification body, government, corporate, and OEM customer quality standards.
Conduct routine floor audits, quality system audits, outgoing quality audits, and special assessments to evaluate compliance and identify improvement opportunities.
Analyze quality and process performance, implement corrective and preventive actions, and support capability improvement initiatives.
Develop, implement, and improve manufacturing quality systems, audit programs, procedures, and plant-wide quality processes.
Prepare and communicate shift, daily, weekly, and monthly audit reports while maintaining documentation and follow-up activities for nonconformances.
Coordinate audit readiness activities and prepare documentation for external audits, including IATF, ISO, product certification, and OEM customer audits.
Deliver training and coaching to strengthen employee understanding of quality systems and requirements.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related field; equivalent experience will also be considered.
2+ years of management experience in a manufacturing environment.
Experience working in a unionized manufacturing environment.
Experience defining and implementing manufacturing processes and quality control systems.
Knowledge of quality system audits, process audits, control plans, and PFMEA development; auditor certification is preferred.
Understanding of manufacturing operations, value stream flow, plant operating systems, and statistical tools used to evaluate process capability and performance.
Strong leadership, coaching, collaboration, problem-solving, and change management skills.

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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 48 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate

Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.