Senior Quality Leader

Description

• Communicate with external suppliers, manufacturing sites, and customers on quality-related issues.
• Lead and manage standardized quality activities across distribution sites, aligned with Watts Global Quality Initiatives.
• Evaluate and score quality within the distribution sites.
• Conduct training on quality concepts and tools with distribution managers, supervisors, and associates.
• Organize, monitor, and distribute information related to distribution quality processes including ISO 9001 standards.
• Lead audits and inspections to ensure conformance and report findings.
• Analyze quality problems and develop a project funnel.
• Identify and develop distribution site-level quality champions to assist with site-level functions.
• Facilitate strategy and goal deployment across distribution sites as prescribed by Supply Chain and Global Quality Senior Leadership.
• Initiate and coordinate distribution quality data collection, analysis, and reporting using statistical techniques.
• Detect internal and external best practices for distribution, and share them across distribution sites, manufacturing sites, and Watts leadership.
• Help design and evaluate distribution quality assurance systems, procedures, and statistical techniques.
• Champion, measure, and report distribution quality initiatives and projects.

Requirements

• Experience enhancing quality systems.
• Experience performing auditing functions
• Experience training and coaching a formal problem-solving methodology
• A willingness to advance Quality certifications.
• 5 or more years of distribution or logistics experience.
• Working knowledge of operations, logistics, sales, customer service, engineering, and IT.
• A bachelor’s degree.
• Hands-on experience with lean, 5S, and visual management.
• Cross-functional site leadership experience.
• Solid project management experience.

Benefits

• Family building benefits, including paid maternity/paternity leave
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits
• Continued professional development opportunities and educational reimbursement
• Competitive compensation based on your skills, qualifications and experience
• Additional perks such as fitness reimbursements and employee discount programs
• 10 paid holidays and Paid Time Off

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance