Jobs · OTHR · North Carolina

Regional Quality Leader

Pentair · Apex, NC · Yesterday
OTHR$129k–$239k/yrFull-time

Enterprise Quality Governance

You will lead assigned Region and/or locations governance, quality culture, escalation, and compliance frameworks to ensure consistent execution and sustained quality outcomes across the businesses.

You will establish and reinforce clear quality expectations across Product, Engineering, Operations, Supply, and Customer Service.

Quality Culture, Risk & Escalation

You will own and deploy the Quality Culture strategy, reinforcing quality-first behaviors, early escalation, and prevention-focused decision-making.

You will govern quality, reliability, and field risk escalation, including oversight of warranty exposure trends and systemic risk mitigation in partnership with Customer Service and Finance.

Quality Systems & Continuous Improvement

You will provide leadership and oversight for enterprise and segment quality systems, including Quality Management Systems (QMS), audits, and APQP governance.

You will facilitate cross-functional reviews of significant quality events to ensure permanent corrective action and sustained improvement.

Cross-Functional Partnership

You will partner with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Operations, Supply, and Customer Service to enable closed-loop communication between execution teams and quality governance forums.

You will influence outcomes through data-driven insights, clear standards, and structured escalation, without direct authority.

Key Qualifications

  • Willingness to travel 50% of the time to other company sites and client specific locations.

  • Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or equivalent) in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical discipline.

  • 10+ years of experience in quality leadership, quality governance, or enterprise quality systems roles.

  • Demonstrated experience defining and leading quality governance, compliance frameworks, or enterprise-level quality programs within complex, matrixed organizations.

  • Strong working knowledge of Quality Management Systems, corrective action methodologies, and risk escalation processes across product, operational, and field environments.

  • Manufacturing environment experience is required.

  • Experience with quality and continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, or similar is preferred.

Pay

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this full-time position working at this location is from $128,500 - $238,600 per year.

Benefits

As a Pentair employee, you would enjoy a wide array of benefit options to help keep you and your family healthy and protected, including health benefits, a generous 401(k), employee stock purchase program, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, parental leave, caregiver leave, tuition reimbursement, plus paid time off and wellness programs to encourage a healthy work/life balance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Pentair is an Equal Opportunity Employer. With our expanding global presence, cross-cultural insight and competence are essential for our ongoing success. We believe that a diverse workforce contributes different perspectives and creative ideas that enable us to continue to improve every day.

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