Lead the regional development, implementation, and longterm sustainability of a robust and scalable Quality Management System (QMS) for start-up manufacturing sites, ensuring rapid certification readiness and alignment to ISO 9001:2015 and corporate Quality strategy.
Own QMS deployment for greenfield and earlystage sites, establishing foundational quality system elements (e.g. Production Quality Basics, Core processes and governance, document control, risk management, audit readiness) while supporting aggressive capacity and capability rampup.
Establish and lead a regional Quality Systems governance model for operations, ensuring consistency of quality practices across sites while allowing flexibility for differing equipment, layouts, and manufacturing maturity levels.
Define, deploy, and monitor Quality System KPIs appropriate for startup as well as sustaining environments, including system maturity, process adherence, corrective action effectiveness, audit performance, and readiness milestones.
Ensure disciplined deployment of standardized quality system development methodologies and structured problemsolving tools, particularly for systemic issues emerging during early production, new equipment qualification, and process stabilization.
Drive the execution of Global Quality Systems initiatives across startup sites, ensuring new operations are architected to global standards rather than retrofitted after launch.
Develop, coach, and mentor newly formed Site Quality Systems teams at startup locations, accelerating capability development, clarifying roles and ownership, and building sustainable local system stewardship.
Ensure startup site Quality Systems objectives are fully aligned with regional and corporate Quality strategies, supporting certification, customer readiness, and longterm operational scalability.
Build and sustain a regional network of Quality Systems professionals and subjectmatter experts with experience in manufacturing, heavy assembly, structural integration, and earlyphase site launches.
Embed a continuous improvement mindset within startup operations, transitioning sites from launch mode to stable, datadriven quality system maturity without disrupting production ramp.
Act as the primary regional escalation point for systemic Quality and compliance issues at startup sites, including gaps identified during Gemba walks, internal audits, certification audits, or early customer assessments.
Fluent in English is required. Spanish a plus, with strong verbal and written communication capabilities.
Demonstrated excellence in leadership, influencing, and stakeholder communication.
Proven commitment to continuous personal development and professional growth.
Strong proficiency and working knowledge of Quality Management Systems and standards.
Resultsdriven change agent with the ability to lead transformation and drive sustainable outcomes.
Ability to communicate effectively across cultures and through multiple communication channels.
Strong analytical and problemsolving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
Proven ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Organizationally astute, with a focus on outcomes rather than organizational politics.
Demonstrates humility and the ability to influence without authority to achieve shared goals.
Proficient in the use of personal computers and Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), with strong email communication skills.
