Program Manager, Fleet Quality
Posted Aug 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you had to get a group of people to change how they worked without having any authority over them.
What they are checking: evidence of real influence-without-authority skill, since this role has no direct reports and depends entirely on persuasion
Tell me about a time you had to escalate a roadblock that a local team or regional leader wasn't going to fix on their own. How did you handle that conversation?
What they are checking: comfort with conflict and knowing when to escalate versus when to keep pushing for consensus
What's your experience working in a multi-site environment where the business challenges show up messy and undefined rather than already scoped for you?
What they are checking: comfort operating in ambiguity, which the posting flags explicitly as a requirement
Give me an example of turning a pile of messy operational data into a short list of priorities that leadership actually acted on.
What they are checking: ability to translate analysis into decisions, not just produce reports
What experience do you have in fleet, rental, service, or manufacturing environments where physical assets take a beating, and how does that shape how you'd think about boat condition here?
What they are checking: relevance of prior asset-intensive operating experience to this specific problem space
What would you do
Say you roll out a new fleet-quality metric and three months in, half the regions are ignoring it. What do you do?
What they are checking: how they diagnose adoption failure and adjust an operating model rather than just re-issuing the same mandate louder
Imagine a regional leader pushes back hard on a new incident-reporting process, saying it doesn't fit their club's situation. How do you respond in the room?
What they are checking: whether they can hold a standard firm while still respecting legitimate local variation, the core tension of a decentralized model
How would you improve the current incident-reporting process without knowing yet what's broken about it?
What they are checking: their approach to diagnosing an existing process before redesigning it, versus jumping straight to a solution
About the work
Walk me through how you'd build a decentralized quality operating model across 400-plus club locations that all run a little differently.
What they are checking: whether the candidate can design a system that balances standardization with local flexibility rather than defaulting to one-size-fits-all mandates
How would you use trend, Pareto, and root-cause analysis to figure out which locations need attention first when you're looking at damage and deterioration data across the whole fleet?
What they are checking: actual fluency with the analytical tools named in the posting, not just familiarity with the terms
Describe a quality management system or process documentation effort you built from scratch. What did you include and what did you leave out?
What they are checking: whether they've actually built QMS infrastructure versus operated inside one someone else designed
Tell me about a corrective and preventive action process you've run. How did you make sure the fix actually stuck instead of the same defect coming back?
What they are checking: depth of hands-on CAPA experience versus surface knowledge of the acronym
How do you decide what belongs in a location-level risk repository, and how would you keep that information current across hundreds of sites?
What they are checking: practical thinking about data governance and sustainability of a reporting system at scale
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