**DISCOVER**
Are you a dynamic and strategic quality leader passionate about driving organizational excellence? Join our team as the Director of Quality, where you will be a pivotal Operations Management team member responsible for creating and maintaining a Quality Culture. You will lead all division QA functions, develop strategic quality plans in collaboration with the Executive Leadership Team, and ensure Watkins's facilities, processes, and personnel deliver products that meet design specifications and achieve high customer satisfaction through comprehensive quality management systems and cross-departmental leadership.
**YOUR RIPPLE EFFECT**
- ** Are you a quality transformation leader? You will establish and maintain a robust Quality Management System, communicating company objectives and quality specifications across all levels of the organization.**:
- ** Can you drive continuous improvement? You will introduce industry best practices, deploy quality tools like DFMEA and PFMEA, and develop strategic quality plans that align with our business objectives.**:
- ** Are you a cross-functional collaboration expert? You will work closely with management teams, production operators, and engineers to establish quality and reliability standards throughout the product lifecycle.**:
- ** Do you excel in supplier management? You will lead supplier evaluation activities, conduct audits, resolve quality issues, and develop robust supplier qualification processes.**:
- ** Can you turn data into actionable insights? You will develop quality reports, analyze trends, and create improvement plans that drive operational excellence.**
**WHAT YOU BRING**
- BA or BS in an appropriate discipline; Advanced degree preferred
- Minimum of 10 years of quality assurance management experience in heavy industrial manufacturing
- Strong expertise in Supplier management, problem-solving methodologies, and lean Manufacturing principles
- ISO quality systems
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- ERP Oracle experience preferred
- Certificates like ASQ Certification, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and Lean Enterprise Institute Certificate are highly desirable
**WHAT YOU'LL GET**
The physical demands and work environment described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, sit, and work with computer equipment. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects.
Physical demands include lifting up to 25 pounds, with primary work locations in Mexico (Mesa de Otay and Tijuana) and occasional travel to the U.S. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities.
Join us in making a difference through quality leadership and continuous improvement!
**Company: Watkins Manufacturing**:
WATMX Lun-Vie 07:00_17:00 (Mexico) Full time
- Watkins (the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer and we want to have the best available persons in every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company's policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company._
- Watkins _is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is an Internet based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA) that allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees in the United States. Please click on the following links for more information._
- E-Verify Participation Poster:_ _English & Spanish
- E-Verify Right to Work Poster:_ _English & Spanish