Repair Quality Leader

The Senior Quality Leader is a key member of the Plant Leadership Team and reports directly to the Plant Leader. This role is responsible for establishing and leading the Quality strategy and Quality Management System for a new greenfield manufacturing facility supporting approximately 600 employees within a global energy manufacturing organization.

The Senior Quality Leader will build a proactive, customer-focused quality culture from the ground up, embedding quality into product and process development, manufacturing, testing, and daily operations. The role will lead a team of Quality professionals and partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, EHS, Finance, and other functions to prevent defects, reduce risk, improve quality performance, and deliver products that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.

This is a highly visible leadership role with significant influence on the quality culture, operating systems, customer experience, and long-term performance of the new facility.

• →Lead the site Quality strategy: Develop and execute the site's Quality strategy and roadmap in alignment with enterprise, business, customer, and regulatory requirements, with clear accountability for quality performance and results.
• →Build Quality into the greenfield operation: Establish quality systems, processes, controls, standards, and capabilities from facility design through production launch and ramp-up, ensuring quality is designed into processes rather than dependent on inspection.
• →Own the Quality Management System: Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the site Quality Management System and ensure compliance with applicable ISO, regulatory, customer, and company requirements.
• →Drive a zero-defect and Built-in-Quality culture: Embed prevention, standardization, risk management, and right-first-time principles throughout manufacturing and establish a culture where every employee owns quality.
• →Lead manufacturing quality performance: Drive improvement in key quality metrics including First Pass Yield, Cost of Poor Quality, scrap, rework, nonconformances, defects, customer escapes, and other site quality KPIs.
• →Lead problem solving and corrective action: Establish rigorous, data-driven problem-solving practices using methods such as 8D, A3, root-cause analysis, CAPA, 5 Why, statistical analysis, and other appropriate quality methodologies.
• →Manage quality risk and prevention: Deploy proactive quality tools including PFMEA, control plans, process capability, error-proofing, Measurement System Analysis, layered process audits, and other risk-based methods to prevent defects and identify potential failures before they reach the customer.
• →Lead and develop the Quality organization: Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Quality Engineers, Quality professionals, inspectors, and other quality resources while developing quality capability across the broader workforce.
• →Drive cross-functional and enterprise improvement: Partner cross functionally to eliminate systemic quality issues, leverage lessons learned and Read Across, and continuously improve processes and performance.
• →Ensure quality governance and benefits realization: Establish effective quality reviews, performance reporting, audit readiness, improvement priorities, and accountability mechanisms while ensuring quality improvements translate into measurable customer, operational, and financial results.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related discipline and 7+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing, quality, quality engineering, or a related discipline OR an equivalent of 10 years of experience in the abovementioned disciplines.
• 3+ years of experience in quality leadership, including experience leading and developing quality professionals.

• Demonstrated success improving manufacturing quality performance and delivering measurable reductions in defects, scrap, rework, nonconformance, or Cost of Poor Quality.

• Strong knowledge of Quality Management Systems and applicable quality standards, including ISO 9001 or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of quality methodologies including root-cause analysis, CAPA, 8D, PFMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA, and risk-based problem solving.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and driving quality improvement across complex manufacturing operations.
• Strong customer focus with experience managing customer quality issues, audits, inspections, and quality escalations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence organizational change and establish a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.

• Experience launching or transforming a greenfield manufacturing facility.
• Experience in energy, power generation, aerospace, industrial equipment, heavy manufacturing, or another highly engineered manufacturing environment.
• Experience with new product introduction, industrialization, and manufacturing process development.
• Experience with special processes such as welding, brazing, coatings, heat treatment, NDT/NDE, or other critical manufacturing processes.
• Experience implementing Built-in-Quality, layered process audits, Read Across, or similar quality-at-the-source systems.
• Strong understanding of supplier quality, incoming quality, and supply-chain quality risk management.
• Experience operating within a large, complex, global, and matrixed organization.

Success will be demonstrated through:

• Successful establishment of a robust Quality Management System and Built-in-Quality culture from facility launch through production ramp-up.
• Achievement of site quality objectives and sustained improvement in key Quality KPIs.
• Improved First Pass Yield, process capability, customer quality, and right-first-time performance.
• Reduction in Cost of Poor Quality, scrap, rework, nonconformance, and customer escapes.
• Effective prevention and rapid resolution of critical quality issues.
• Successful integration of quality into new product introduction, industrialization, equipment, and manufacturing processes.
• Strong customer confidence and effective execution of customer inspections, audits, witness points, and quality requirements.
• Development of a high-performing Quality organization and broad-based quality capability across the site.
• Demonstrated use of data, risk management, lessons learned, and systemic problem solving to prevent recurrence.
• Sustainable quality improvements that positively impact customer satisfaction, operational performance, and business results.