Supervisor, Assembly Quality

Become part of an iconic brand that is set to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by achieving the following:

• →Lead daily Quality Gate operations to ensure vehicles, parts, and assemblies meet established quality standards before release to the next process, final disposition, or customer-facing milestone. 
• →Supervise inspection flow, defect confirmation, containment activity, vehicle hold management, rework coordination, and release readiness. 
• →Set clear daily priorities for team members through start-up meetings, performance reviews, staffing plans, and escalation routines. 
• →Monitor quality KPIs, defect trends, audit findings, throughput constraints, open containment actions; initiate countermeasures when targets are not met. 
• →Partner with Assembly, Quality Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Maintenance, Logistics, Launch, Production Control, and other teams to resolve issues and prevent recurrence. 
• →Drive root cause analysis, corrective actions, layered process checks, and disciplined follow-up for quality gate issues. 
• →Ensure non-conforming vehicles, parts, and assemblies are properly identified, contained, documented, tracked, escalated, and dispositioned according to standards. 
• →Maintain quality gate standards, work instructions, inspection criteria, escalation paths, and objective evidence required for audits and customer protection. 
• →Coach, train, and develop team members while reinforcing standardized work, safety expectations, quality discipline, and continuous improvement behaviors. 
• →Support pre-series, launch, and start-of-production activities by validating quality gate readiness, inspection coverage, staffing plans, containment needs, and escalation routines. 
• →Lead improvement activities that reduce defects, repeat issues, rework, waiting time, unnecessary movement, and process variation. 
• →Promote a safe, respectful, proactive team culture built on urgency, ownership, collaboration, problem solving, and customer focus. 
• →Support any shift, overtime, or schedule adjustments as needed to meet business, production, launch, and quality requirements. 

• →To be considered for career opportunities at Scout Motors, applicants must be 18 years of age or older. 
• →Residing in San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 
• →Residing in Los Angeles: Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. 
• →Residing in New York City: This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.

Scout Motors is committed to employing a diverse workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, or any other characteristics protected by law. Scout Motors is committed to compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact ScoutAccommodations@scoutmotors.com.