Senior Quality Leader

Senior Quality Leader page is loaded## Senior Quality Leader remote type:
On-Site locations:
Groveport, OHtime type:
Full time posted on:
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**** We’re Watts. Together, we’re reimagining the future of water.
**** We feel proud every day about what we do. We're all part of the same crucial mission, no matter what function we support -- it's to provide safe, clean water for the world, and to protect our planet's most valuable resource.
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* What we do:

** For 150 years, Watts has built best-in-class products that are trusted by customers in residential and commercial settings across the world. We are at the forefront of innovation, working with cutting-edge technology to provide smart and connected, sustainable water solutions for the future. Watts is a leading brand with a quality reputation — and we have a dynamic future ahead.

As the Senior Quality Leader, you will guide quality culture across Watts distribution sites by providing analysis, insight, training, and coaching, directly applying quality principles to distribution business functions to enhance the customer experience. Under the guidance of the Director, Distribution Centers, you will work with distribution and manufacturing sites to achieve process improvements linked to distribution site quality, focusing on the customer and resulting in balanced, measurable improvements.

As the Senior Quality Leader, you will guide quality culture across Watts distribution sites by providing analysis, insight, training, and coaching, directly applying quality principles to distribution business functions to enhance the customer experience. Under the guidance of the Director, Distribution Centers, you will work with distribution and manufacturing sites to achieve process improvements linked to distribution site quality, focusing on the customer and resulting in balanced, measurable improvements.##

You Will:
* Lead and manage standardized quality activities across distribution sites, aligned with Watts Global Quality Initiatives.
* Champion, measure, and report distribution quality initiatives and projects.
* Facilitate strategy and goal deployment across distribution sites as prescribed by Supply Chain and Global Quality Senior Leadership.
* Lead audits and inspections to ensure conformance and report findings.
* Analyze quality problems and develop a project funnel.
* Communicate with external suppliers, manufacturing sites, and customers on quality-related issues.
* Initiate and coordinate distribution quality data collection, analysis, and reporting using statistical techniques.
* Organize, monitor, and distribute information related to distribution quality processes including ISO 9001 standards.
* Evaluate and score quality within the distribution sites.
* Help design and evaluate distribution quality assurance systems, procedures, and statistical techniques.
* Conduct training on quality concepts and tools with distribution managers, supervisors, and associates.
* Identify and develop distribution site-level quality champions to assist with site-level functions.
* Detect internal and external best practices for distribution, and share them across distribution sites, manufacturing sites, and Watts leadership.  #### You Have:
* A bachelor’s degree.
* 5 or more years of distribution or logistics experience.
* Experience enhancing quality systems.
* Hands-on experience with lean, 5S, and visual management.
* Experience performing auditing functions
* Solid project management experience.
* Working knowledge of operations, logistics, sales, customer service, engineering, and IT.
* Experience training and coaching a formal problem-solving methodology
* Cross-functional site leadership experience.
* A willingness to advance Quality certifications.
** Physical Requirements**:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, talk, and/or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include: close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and…