Brief Job Description: -
Director Manufacturing Quality –
The Director Manufacturing Quality will be responsible for implementing and maintaining quality management systems, processes, and procedures to ensure that our products/services meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. The Director Quality will lead a team of quality professionals in efforts to drive Quality Excellence within area of responsibility as hired while working closely with the greater Global Quality organization and cross-functional partners to identify areas for improvement and drive continuous quality improvement initiatives throughout the organization.
- Director of Manufacturing Quality — Core Responsibilities
• Own manufacturing quality performance end-to-end across all assigned plants, including FPY, scrap, rework, escapes, COPQ, and customer impact metrics.
• Translate enterprise quality strategy into plant-level execution, ensuring consistent application of standards, controls, and behaviors across regions.
• Lead and develop plant quality leaders, setting expectations, coaching capability, and building a strong succession pipeline.
• Drive systemic root cause problem solving, ensuring corrective actions address process and design causes—not symptoms.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering leadership to embed quality into daily management, production systems, and NPDI ramp-ups.
• Establish and enforce standardized manufacturing quality processes, including control plans, PFMEAs, layered process audits, and change management.
• Own manufacturing readiness and risk assessments for new products, capacity expansions, and line transfers.
• Lead customer and executive-level quality escalations, providing clear containment, recovery plans, and prevention strategies.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable quality standards and certifications (ISO 9001) where applicable, internal governance), with a focus on audit readiness and discipline.
• Drive reduction of Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) through targeted improvement initiatives tied to financial outcomes.
• Champion data-driven quality management, leveraging dashboards, trend analysis, and leading indicators to proactively manage risk.
• Align supplier quality, incoming quality, and manufacturing quality, ensuring clear handoffs and accountability across the value chain.
• Influence manufacturing design and process decisions early, preventing quality issues through robust front-end planning.
• Build a culture of ownership and accountability, where quality is owned by operations, not inspected in by quality teams.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, clearly articulating manufacturing risk, tradeoffs, and investment needs.
Qualifications: -
Required/ Minimum Qualifications: -
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in quality, or a related field, with at least 7 years in a leadership or managerial role.
- Proven track record of developing and implementing quality management systems and processes in a manufacturing or production environment.
- Strong knowledge of quality assurance principles, methodologies, and tools, including statistical analysis, root cause analysis, and risk management.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and people skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organization.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data, identify trends and patterns, and develop effective solutions.
Additional / Preferred Qualifications: -
- BA, BS or equivalent experience in related field; advanced degree preferred.
- Certification in quality management (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean, ASQ) is a plus.
Physical & Environmental Requirements: - (To be used majorly for manufacturing jobs.)
- No Special Physical Requirements
Time Travel Needed: -
- 50%