Explore Director, Quality Control opportunities for experienced professionals who lead quality programs, strengthen compliance, and help organizations deliver reliable products and services. Ladders features vetted professional roles paying $100,000 or more, including quality leadership positions across industries such as manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and food production.
A Director of Quality Control sets quality standards and oversees the processes used to verify that products, materials, and operations meet regulatory requirements and company expectations. Responsibilities may include managing quality teams and laboratories, developing inspection and testing procedures, reviewing audit findings, investigating deviations, and partnering with operations, engineering, and regulatory affairs. The role often involves reporting quality performance and risks to senior leadership.
Employers commonly seek substantial quality or quality-control experience, a record of leading teams, and expertise in quality management systems, audits, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive action (CAPA), and continuous improvement. Depending on the industry, knowledge of standards and regulations such as FDA requirements, ISO standards, or Good Manufacturing Practices may be important. Strong communication, analytical judgment, and cross-functional leadership skills are also valuable.
Director-level quality roles can offer the opportunity to shape organization-wide systems, guide compliance strategy, and influence product reliability and customer confidence. Compensation varies with industry, location, company size, and scope of responsibility. Browse Ladders for vetted Director, Quality Control jobs with salaries of $100,000 or more and find opportunities aligned with your experience and career goals.
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Director, 211 Manufacturing Quality and Regulatory Affairs
$190K - $228K *
Drive enterprise Quality and Regulatory governance for U.S. operations, ensuring compliance with FDA regulations and overseeing manufacturing quality in the therapeutic radiopharmaceutical sector whil...
Reposted 2 weeks ago
$160K - $200K *
Join a team that's dedicated to establishing a robust Quality Management System, ensuring compliance and excellence in global clinical development and commercialization. Lead quality initiatives and f...
3 weeks ago
Director / Senior Director, Quality
$200K - $270K *
Lead the development and execution of GxP quality systems, ensuring compliance and oversight for clinical and CMC quality. Drive vendor qualification, audits, and training while fostering a culture of...
2 weeks ago
$130K - $160K *
Lead quality operations to ensure data accuracy and compliance in healthcare. Drive improvements through audits, data analysis, and technology integration, fostering a culture of excellence across tea...
2 weeks ago
Associate Director, Quality (Clinical)
$175K - $210K *
Drive quality excellence in clinical programs by overseeing compliance, risk management, and vendor oversight. Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure adherence to GCP regulations and lead inspection...
3 weeks ago
$110K - $130K *
Transform quality assurance by leading a dedicated team, ensuring compliance, and managing complex client projects. Drive excellence in drug importation and quality documentation while fostering stron...
2 weeks ago
$150K - $180K *
Optimize quality operations for large-scale data pipelines, ensuring high standards and consistency across diverse datasets. Lead a team to enhance efficiency and reliability in audio data processing...
3 weeks ago
Senior Director, Clinical Quality Assurance (CQA)
$245K - $286K *
Elevate clinical quality assurance through strategic leadership and oversight of global trials, ensuring compliance with GCP regulations. Drive quality culture and inspection readiness while mentoring...
Reposted 3 weeks ago
Associate Director, Product Quality
$117K - $189K *
Join a team that's shaping the future of pharmaceutical quality by leading compliance initiatives and building a robust Quality Management System to support innovative therapies in a dynamic, collabor...
2 weeks ago
Director, Product Quality Lead
$172K - $232K *
Lead the charge in advancing global quality initiatives, ensuring product excellence, and fostering expertise in quality risk management while collaborating across teams to enhance compliance and oper...
Reposted 4 weeks ago
Director, Analytical Development and Quality Control
$192K - $235K *
Lead analytical development and quality control for sterile parenteral products, ensuring regulatory compliance and successful product launches. Collaborate cross-functionally to establish strategies...
1 week ago
$95K - $115K *
Shape quality operations by ensuring compliance and excellence in clinical trials. Oversee the Quality Management System, manage Quality Events, and drive continuous improvement while collaborating wi...
Yesterday
$149K - $173K *
Lead quality and food safety initiatives across North America, ensuring compliance and audit readiness. Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence through technical expertise and collabor...
1 week ago
Associate Director, Quality Assurance - Technical
$150K - $195K *
Empower quality assurance excellence by leading GMP oversight for contract manufacturing and validation projects, ensuring compliance and collaboration across technical operations to support drug deve...
2 weeks ago
Quality Control Manager, Quality/ Food & Safety
$80K - $95K *
Elevate product quality and compliance by overseeing QC activities with external partners. Drive continuous improvement initiatives, manage quality documentation, and collaborate cross-functionally to...
3 days ago
Quality Control, Validation Lead
$110K - $130K *
Join a team that's shaping the future of Quality Control laboratories by providing technical oversight for startup, validation, and compliance across multiple manufacturing sites, ensuring operational...
2 weeks ago
Senior Operations Manager, Quality Control
$104K - $145K *
Lead the charge in developing a robust quality control program, managing a team to enhance operational processes, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance across lending operations while leveraging autom...
2 weeks ago
$120K - $145K *
Join the forefront of quality assurance in government logistics. Lead the development and enhancement of a robust Quality Management System across multiple sites, ensuring compliance and operational e...
4 days ago
$100K - $120K *
Unlock your potential by leading quality assurance initiatives across the loan origination lifecycle. Drive team performance, ensure compliance, and enhance operational efficiency while fostering a co...
3 weeks ago
Director, Clinical Quality Assurance
$195K - $256K *
Elevate clinical quality assurance by designing and executing strategies for compliance, audit management, and oversight of global clinical operations. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure adherenc...
1 week ago
Director/Senior Director, CMC Quality Operations
$200K - $290K *
Contribute to the advancement of cancer therapies by managing analytical development and quality control operations, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and collaborating across teams to en...
2 days ago
$107K - $199K *
Lead transformative process improvements to enhance healthcare quality and efficiency. Collaborate with teams to elevate performance metrics, oversee cultural competency initiatives, and drive strateg...
Today
Director, QMS Process Owner - Global Change Control Management
$168K - $228K *
Transform global GxP Change Management processes by leading strategy, governance, and continuous improvement initiatives across the product lifecycle, ensuring effective risk-based changes and collabo...
2 days ago
Director, Quality Engineering, Primary Care
$156K - $215K *
Unlock your potential by leading quality engineering initiatives across diverse technology portfolios. Drive automation, enhance delivery quality, and foster team growth while collaborating with cross...
Reposted 6 days ago
Principal DCIM - Controls Build Quality Engineer (CBQE)
$110K - $130K *
Lead the charge in overseeing system integrators and project management, ensuring quality and performance across all phases. Collaborate with stakeholders to drive standardization and risk mitigation...
3 weeks ago
What does a Director of Quality Control do?
A Director of Quality Control leads quality teams and systems, oversees inspections and testing, monitors compliance, manages audits and investigations, and works with other departments to improve product and process quality.
What qualifications are typical for Director, Quality Control jobs?
Requirements vary by industry, but employers often look for significant quality-control or quality-assurance experience, people leadership, knowledge of quality management systems, audit experience, and skills in root-cause analysis and CAPA. Relevant regulatory or standards expertise may also be required.
Which industries hire Directors of Quality Control?
Common employers include manufacturers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, medical-device organizations, food producers, and other regulated or quality-focused businesses.
Do Director, Quality Control jobs pay $100,000 or more?
Pay depends on factors such as industry, location, experience, and scope of responsibility. Ladders focuses on vetted professional jobs paying $100,000 or more, so browse current listings for compensation details.
How can I find Director, Quality Control jobs on Ladders?
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