Corporate Quality Manager

Grove City, OH | Grove City Plant
3400 Jackson Pike
Grove City, OH 43123, USA

• Lead the quality step-change strategy and execution plan across all eight manufacturing sites, translating priorities into clear site-level actions and measurable results. Lead the enterprise quality improvement strategy, translating priorities into clear site-level actions, ownership, and measurable results.
• Partner with plant and functional leaders to strengthen accountability, disciplined follow-through, and alignment around common standards.
• Coach and develop plant quality leaders, supervisors, and frontline teams in problem solving, decision making, and quality leadership.
• Establish a consistent operating rhythm to review performance, address barriers, assign actions, and confirm sustained improvement.
• Provide enterprise level leadership with clear assessments of quality performance, risks, priorities, and progress.

• Use In-Process Accuracy, First-Pass Quality, defects, scrap, cost of quality, customer issues, and other measures to identify trends, set priorities, and drive corrective action.
• Lead cross-site problem solving for recurring or high-impact issues, ensuring corrective actions address root causes and deliver sustained results.
• Standardize critical manufacturing and inspection processes while maintaining clear site ownership for execution.
• Identify, validate, and scale effective practices across the manufacturing network.
• Partner with Production, Engineering, Drafting, Project Management, and other functions to prevent quality issues and improve manufacturability.
• Facilitate site level implementation of practical visual controls, layered process audits, standard work, and daily quality-management routines.

• Build a culture in which operations owns quality and employees consistently demonstrate accountability, prevention, standardization, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and deliver leadership, problem-solving, and quality-process training that strengthens site capability.
• Ensure customer quality concerns receive timely containment, effective root-cause analysis, and permanent corrective action.
• Partner with the corporate compliance function to support PCI, ISO, and other certification requirements.
• Use audits and assessments to identify operational risks, strengthen processes, and uncover improvement opportunities.

• Consistently achieves measurable quality and operational improvements, even under challenging conditions.
• Coaches plant leaders and quality teams to build capability, ownership, and long-term bench strength.
• Translates enterprise quality priorities into coordinated, practical plans across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Improves manufacturing systems and standard work with a focus on prevention, consistency, and sustained performance.
• Navigates a multi-site organization effectively and builds alignment across operations, quality, engineering, and leadership.
• Uses data, operational insight, and solid judgment to prioritize and solve complex manufacturing quality problems.
• Builds strong partnerships with plant teams and functional leaders to achieve shared quality objectives.
• Clearly communicates expectations, performance gaps, priorities, and actions to audiences ranging from frontline teams to executives.
• Creates ownership and commitment by involving site leaders and employees in improving how quality is achieved.
• Gains confidence through credibility, consistency, direct communication, and reliable follow‑through.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Business, or a related field;
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing operations, quality, or continuous improvement, including responsibility for influencing performance across multiple sites or business units.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise or multi‑site change initiatives that produced measurable improvements in defects, rework, first‑pass quality, customer performance, or cost of quality.
• Strong…