Director Quality

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide quality strategy for LMW generator integration, ensuring regulatory compliance, alignment to customer requirements, and continuous improvement in a high-mix manufacturing environment.
• Own and improve LMW customer experience and quality performance metrics, driving cross-functional actions to enhance performance and reduce total cost of quality.
• Partner with C&I manufacturing sites to resolve systemic and day-to-day quality issues, influencing teams to deliver consistent, best-in-class results.
• Develop and execute a multi-year quality transformation roadmap, progressing the organization from Quality Control to Quality Assurance and Process Excellence.
• Establish, deploy and continuously improve the Generac Quality Management System, including standard tools, methodologies, audits and best practices.
• Set product quality goals, metrics and test methods during product design and development; regularly present quality performance and insights to senior leadership and customers.
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing quality organization through effective talent selection, coaching, performance management, and succession planning.
• Coach business leaders and teams to adopt a common vision for quality, continuous improvement and operational excellence across processes and technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of quality leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Proven leadership background in Quality, Lean, Process Excellence and/or Six Sigma environments.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS and/or MBA).
• Experience operating within a multi-site, matrixed global organization.
• Demonstrated track record of performance, career progression and results within quality or continuous improvement functions.
• Experience leading teams across both direct and indirect reporting structures.
• Certification as a Quality Engineer and demonstrated application of Six Sigma tools and Lean methodologies.
• Willingness and ability to travel regionally and internationally up to 50%.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision plans; life, long-term disability, flexible spending and health savings accounts, accrued paid time off, 8 paid Holidays and 401(k) retirement benefits.

Pay

$156,100 - 215,000 USD based in East Peoria, Illinois.

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate travel and remote work as needed.